[Aromasin]

Unfortunately the minor ISPs are almost 3-fold slower in most places, while being just as expensive. My options are between Virgin, which has speeds of up to 362mB fibre for £42/month, and the next best BT, which is 67mB for £39.99/ month. At uni, unless I wanted 30mB for a 7 person household, my only option was again Virgin.

It's difficult not to be on a major ISP when the minor ISPs can't contest on speed and value for money.

[setquk]

I spent years with 5 people on 12mbit ADSL2. I'd rather have that than virgin and blocking any day. I suffered Virgin for a couple of years and it was hell.

Now I'm on ~64mbit VDSL with no blocking at all on Zen. We pull 500G+ a month through it. Costs £37.49 a month.

They just rolled out 300mbit fibre as well so that's going in next month.

Speed isn't everything for me. I can QoS those problems away pretty well.

[Aromasin]

We switched service providers 3 times during that year. We started with a 30mbit connection through PlusNet, then 60 with EE, then 300 Virgin. The only one that was usable was Virgin Media. I wish that wasn't that case, but it simply was. Internet was a contentious topic in our house, but having 7 people either playing games, watching HD movies, or streaming simultaneously knocked most ISPs down swiftly.

[setquk]

plusnet and EE are turds. Total turds. The worst of all of them to be honest apart from possibly Talk Talk.

[GordonS]

I've been with Plusnet for 4 years or so now, and I've nothing but good things to say about them.

Apart from their mobile offering - plenty of bad things to say about that!

[oarsinsync]

> I spent years with 5 people on 12mbit ADSL2. I'd rather have that than virgin and blocking any day.

Try doing that today with 5 people all trying to watch Netflix. That wasn't a thing back in 2002.

[amaccuish]

I've got virgin at uni right now and while the headline speeds are great, it's absolutely useless at peak times. Not worth it IMHO.

[setquk]

I'm only talking 2 years ago. And we do have netflix and it's simply tough shit!

In 2002, I had 1mbit.

[handzbagz]

I'm with Uno Broadband who sell BT fibre lines (so upto 70 down/20 up) for around £40 a month with no blocks or restrictions and a static IP. No download limits to speak of either as I can easily hit 2TB download a month.

They fix stuff quickly too, I'd recommend em.

[gambiting]

To be annoying - milli Bels of speed? I've never seen anyone write it like this before, it's MB for megabytes, and Mb for megabits, mB is a different unit altogether.

[Aromasin]

Should be Mb. Project deadlines mean sleep deprived Hacker News procrastination comments.

[setquk]

Perhaps the poster has a new MacBook Air with butterfly keyboard? :)