I am not very 'techie' at all so use my laptop for normal 'net surfing ... but nothing special. Use the PS3 & Xbox 360 for a lot of gaming and I've never had an issue with xnet, I've found all the people I've dealt with have been very nice & professional. If there have been speed issues say with youtube, I've let it stream and gone off to say make a coffee and come back and its been fine.  But perhaps I am just a "glass half full" sort of person ...

jesterpaul: The posters who are happy now obviously don't stream video on the web. If they did, they'd notice that even now Xnet can't provide adequate international peak time bandwidth.

bazznet:
No, really I do. Apart from the torrent speed issues a times I'm more than happy. On naked broadband and loving it. I thought there was enough doom and gloom in this Forum and a happier thread was needed .

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ps.......No, don't work for or even know any employees of WXC etc

Baboon:

bazznet:
No, really I do. Apart from the torrent speed issues a times I'm more than happy. On naked broadband and loving it. I thought there was enough doom and gloom in this Forum and a happier thread was needed .

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ps.......No, don't work for or even know any employees of WXC etc

Tell me again how this is good?

jermsie:

Wouldn't that speed have more to do with the DSLAM you're connected to?

jesterpaul:

jermsie:

Wouldn't that speed have more to do with the DSLAM you're connected to?

Very unlikely as if the physical connection was that slow, the upload speed would be in the 2 figure range. This sounds like the issues I get, and my modem always sync at 7616Kbps. That's a throughput issue (therefore most likely an Xnet problem) not a line speed issue.

jesterpaul: The posters who are happy now obviously don't stream video on the web. If they did, they'd notice that even now Xnet can't provide adequate international peak time bandwidth.