How do you rate you ISP?

[db]

It is a little more (this is my last month of £17 - next it will be £24 but still reasonable for the speed of the service you get).

same here, but i'm going to phone them and say "what's all this £24 nonsense? sky are falling over themselves to give me free internet, so drop it back to £17 or i'm outta here like vladimir!"..

i did the same in reverse with sky (vis a vis the tv service) and they gave me a free sky+ box to stay lol..

 

[shoes]

Thats a good idea actually, I am due a mobile upgrade soon and Orange want to give me free broadband (allbeit shite) so I think I'll mention that!

 

[wmrcomputers]

Just a quickie for uTorrent fans....

If you restrict your upload speed it slows down your download speeds too, cos thatshow torrents are designed to work for fair sharing.

I'm on virgin media, and you'll get better speeds with Azureus. Set options as follows.
Max Simultaneous downloads = 10
Maximum connections per torrent 118
Maximum globally = 250
Max download speed = 0 (unlimited)
Max upload speed = 20kBPS

With these settings i can regularly get 250kb/s when grabbing popular torrents.
On their 10Mbit service I used to get 750kb/s, but decided that was an extreme difference in price so i dropped it back down.

I'm paying £18 just for their 2 meg broadband, so i think its time I tried a deal too. After all, I could have a phone line, free landline calls AND 8 meg broadband for £20 elsewhere. Got to be worth a phone call I suppose!!

 

[MyCult]

thanks for the advice wmr,

had azureus a while ago, switched to uTorrent but might give it a whirl again

 

[db]

Just a quickie for uTorrent fans....

If you restrict your upload speed it slows down your download speeds too, cos thatshow torrents are designed to work for fair sharing.

I'm on virgin media, and you'll get better speeds with Azureus. Set options as follows.
Max Simultaneous downloads = 10
Maximum connections per torrent 118
Maximum globally = 250
Max download speed = 0 (unlimited)
Max upload speed = 20kBPS

With these settings i can regularly get 250kb/s when grabbing popular torrents.
On their 10Mbit service I used to get 750kb/s, but decided that was an extreme difference in price so i dropped it back down.

I'm paying £18 just for their 2 meg broadband, so i think its time I tried a deal too. After all, I could have a phone line, free landline calls AND 8 meg broadband for £20 elsewhere. Got to be worth a phone call I suppose!!

er, no.. perhaps some of the trackers you use restrict download speeds on users who throttle their upload, but that most certainly is not the way the BT protocol works.. in fact, if you don't throttle your upload slightly, that will cause slower downloads, as you will saturate your upstream and there won't be any space left for acknowledgement packets for incoming connections from peers! that's why µtorrent will automatically brickwall your connection speed at a couple of KB below max if you have stuff downloading, then open it up unrestricted if you're just seeding.. if i leave my upload open, it maxes out at a steady 60KB/s..

i used to use azureus, but µtorrent is million times better, imo.. much smaller footprint, doesn't rely on java, and i get better transfer rates.. i'm on the same level you were (i.e. 10mbit) and consistently get 1.1MB/s download with the default settings!

edit: definitely worth installing this tcp patch though.. it will open up the number of tcp connections windows will accept, and give you much better transfer rates! this patches your windows tcp stack, so will improve results regardless of which client you use

 

[shoes]

I have to agree with Bobby on this one, I use default settings and achieve similar results.

 

[My Name is URL]

@ WMR.... I am paying £10 a month for my 2meg BB with Virgin... I just rang up and asked if they could do anything and they dropped it without hesitation.

Which torrent sites does eveyone use then?

 

[db]

Which torrent sites does eveyone use then?

if i told you, i'd have to kill you

(or, more likely, i'd be banned and wouldn't be able to get my cool stuff for free at 1.1MB/s )


might be worth starting a new thread to this effect though, as this could start a serious derail..

 

[MyCult]

@ WMR.... I am paying £10 a month for my 2meg BB with Virgin... I just rang up and asked if they could do anything and they dropped it without hesitation.

Which torrent sites does eveyone use then?

they dropped? the price?

 

[wmrcomputers]

@ WMR.... I am paying £10 a month for my 2meg BB with Virgin... I just rang up and asked if they could do anything and they dropped it without hesitation.

Which torrent sites does eveyone use then?

they dropped? the price?

Same question here... what did they drop?? You've got me curios!!

@dirtybobby , it must depend on trackers etc like you say. Personally everything I downloaded with uTorrent was too slow unless I seeded higher, and by seeding higher nobody else in our house could use the net.
Just my own preferenceabout those settings on Azureus, I don't claim to be an expert on Torrenting, although I found these settings once in another forum, I tried them, and in my case it got the two thumbs up.
If uTorrent works better for you, then it's all good.

 

[My Name is URL]

Sorry, I thought MyCult was being crude, double entendre stylee must be my dirty mind.

Sorry should have been clearer, I WAS PAYING £18 and asked them what they could do and they dropped it to £10 a month.

I do have TV M with them as well but I don't think that matters on the BB price.

 

[wmrcomputers]

Oh right i don't have (or want) anything but their broadband, but i suppose its still worth a try.

Cheers for the feedback, i'll let you know if i have any luck with them

 

[My Name is URL]

As I said wmr, I don't think the fact I had tv got me the discount, I just think they will drop their price for fear of losing you....

JUST SEEN.... VM are doing a free 30 day trial for 2meg customers to upgrade to 10meg on their 12 days of christmas deal....

Loads of other offers on it too.

www.virginmedia.com/12days

 

[db]

Oh right i don't have (or want) anything but their broadband, but i suppose its still worth a try.

Cheers for the feedback, i'll let you know if i have any luck with them

if you have sky tv, just tell virgin that you want to cancel because sky are going to give you internet for free.. i haven't done it myself, but i'm pretty confident that they will drop their pants to keep you.. as i say, i used the same tactics to get a free sky+ box from sky

 

[MyCult]

Sorry, I thought MyCult was being crude, double entendre stylee must be my dirty mind.

Sorry should have been clearer, I WAS PAYING £18 and asked them what they could do and they dropped it to £10 a month.

I do have TV M with them as well but I don't think that matters on the BB price.

Ahhhhh seen man. I was to busy thinking I could get me nets cheaper cool as

 

[cat_woman]

I have done the same, and they have halved my bill!

 

[db]

well, either virgin media have cleaned up their act a little regarding customer service, or i just got lucky.. i just phoned them to do the aforementioned blag, fully expecting to be on the phone for ages, being passed from pillar to post, and speaking to advisors in india before finally getting what i wanted..

but there was none of that.. i phoned up, they answered almost immediately, i spoke to a scottish girl called kayleigh who took my details, i explained that i wasn't happy with my new broadband price and i was thinking of defecting to sky, she put me on hold for a minute, then when she came back she said they would drop it back down to the original price! very quick and painless..

now we just have to see if this really will happen, or whether i'll be in the same boat again next month faced with the same conversation.. i'm pretty confident it's all sorted, though

 

[cat_woman]

Me too, the lady I spoke to was also Scottish, called Jemma, I didn't even have to say I was going to defect, just that I had been chatting to friends about how much it was costing them for BB, as you say lets just see if they do as they have promised.

gk141054, you may have started something!

 

[wmrcomputers]

oohhhh my turn my turn my turn


i'll give it a go on monday and see if i get the same response!
fingers crossed

 

[cat_woman]

Good luck.