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RyanM

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#162176 31-Jan-2015 15:39
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Unfortunately we will be without UFB until at least 2019 and are too far from the exchange for VDSL so I want to find the best ADSL provider speed and not cost being the main factor.

Unfortunately I can't convince my girlfriend to forego the land line so we can't use BIG PIPE (although it might be worth running a second phone line just for that?)

Any ideas?

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  #1226139 1-Feb-2015 10:28
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RyanM: Thanks for the replies, we are currently with spark and during peak times international traffic falls to 300kbps if I'm lucky, with latency being the worse part. You can tell for instance as soon as people get off work it crawls.

I know allot of that is because of local congestion however I'm after a provider that is going to have a lower chance of this happening. I'm working from home more and more and I can't have video chat through DSL often.


The concept of "local congestion" doesn't exist unless you're on a Conklin or the odd heavily loaded ASAM. If you're on either, you're not going to see any difference at all no matter what provider you go with.

Where are you located? If you're on an ISAM and seeing congestion issues you should have reported this to Spark as a fault.

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