[Chester LUG] Good broadband

[Sebastian Arcus]

One more thing. Talking about VPN speeds - there is the possibility it 
is not VM's fault. I recall various discussions on the OpenVPN mailing 
list (and it might apply to other VPN's as well) about people trying to 
achieve theoretical speed limits even inside a LAN - and stumbling well 
short of the target, because of all sorts of reasons why they couldn't 
get there inside a VPN tunnel. The the reason might be elsewhere, not on 
the broadband link itself.

Sebastian

On 06/02/12 08:55, John wrote:
> Go with Plus net..they are really good. I use them.
> John
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> On 05/02/12 23:21, Stuart Burns wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> As per title. Virgin have just decided to increase my package by over
>> 5% from the £65 a month I already pay (includes TV and phone!). The
>> thing is, it's pretty crap anyhow. VPN - Your having a laugh! They
>> advertise 120MBit broadband, but in reality, they won't let you get
>> anywhere near that speed.
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>> Problems include, limiting speed to 64K/s as soon as there is a sniff
>> of p2p traffic (Centos 6 anyone?). If you try and download more than
>> about a gig, ie a vmware ISO, your speeds get capped again. Then the
>> offshore technical support, who when you say "Mac" Metaphorically sh1t
>> themselves as it's not in their script and you know it's not your
>> issue as your modem isn't getting sync.
>>
>> I'm looking at Plus.net because as they say "Good honest broadband". I
>> am not particularly big downloader, maybe 5 - 6 GB a week, sometimes
>> more, sometimes less.
>>
>> Any suggestions welcome,
>>
>> Stu
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