What is the best broadband for gaming and low ping available in the UK

[PC_NOOB ;)]

What is the best broadband for gaming and low ping available in the UK?

[o0Martin]

What is the best broadband for gaming and low ping available in the UK?

 

It all depends on your area, but in general Virgin Media is meant to be up there with the best if their new fibre lines are supported in your area, but they are barely supported anywhere  

 

BT is probably more wide spread, and still good (I'm with them right now) but I want to switch to Virgin when they come to my area at Uni

[Broseephus]

It all depends on your area, but in general Virgin Media is meant to be up there with the best if their new fibre lines are supported in your area, but they are barely supported anywhere  

 

BT is probably more wide spread, and still good (I'm with them right now) but I want to switch to Virgin when they come to my area at Uni

 

Just pray you never need BT tech support. It's like Comcast but with Indians who barely speak english.

[Jamdude]

Virgin Media is the best provider in the UK.  There are others like Hyperoptic that focus on broadband and nothing else, but I haven't had experience with them so can't recommend them.

[PC_NOOB ;)]

It all depends on your area, but in general Virgin Media is meant to be up there with the best if their new fibre lines are supported in your area, but they are barely supported anywhere  

 

BT is probably more wide spread, and still good (I'm with them right now) but I want to switch to Virgin when they come to my area at Uni

Okay thanks i will see if virgin media is in my area and I am currently with BT.

[theereal]

What is the best broadband for gaming and low ping available in the UK?

It ALWAYS depends on where you live, ofcourse your internet provider matters, but there are several factors coming into play, like how far you are from the sender, how many people who are connected to the same sender at the same time etc.

[o0Martin]

Just pray you never need BT tech support. It's like Comcast but with Indians who barely speak english.

 

Oh my God... BT Tech support... I had to call them to help my Uncle out (He's in his 70's and can't hear tht well) I was on the phone for like 3 hours straight going through all their obligatory troubleshooting steps before they finally agreed to just get an engineer to come round and fix the issue >.< 

 

Thankfully he was a nice guy and knew what he was doing aha 

[JustChilliing]

#TeamVirginMedia #FibreOptic

 

Been fibre optic for over 8 years now on Virgin. My entire road has it, so they upgraded us ages ago.

[TheGamingBarrel]

Hyperoptic, it can do 1Gb/s up / down depending on how close youy are

[Jamdude]

Hyperoptic, it can do 1Gb/s up / down depending on how close youy are

Are you with Hyperoptic?  I'd love to know if they're actually any good.

[acbluflame]

BT have always been terrible, specifically their customer support IME.  Over my time gaming, I've heard complaints about traffic shaping and terrible peak time speeds regarding Virgin Media, though they may not have had fibre.  Had Sky in two separate locations, and have been great for no traffic shaping or limiting and early 'truly unlimited' adoption and stable, low pings.

 

ymmv

[o0Martin]

BT have always been terrible, specifically their customer support IME.  Over my time gaming, I've heard complaints about traffic shaping and terrible peak time speeds regarding Virgin Media, though they may not have had fibre.  Had Sky in two separate locations, and have been great for no traffic shaping or limiting and early 'truly unlimited' adoption and stable, low pings.

 

ymmv

 

Sky was always a big no for me because you can't get rid of their default shit router aha, they lock you down and make you use it, I replaced my BT router asap (That was also just as bad as the sky one) 

[acbluflame]

Sky was always a big no for me because you can't get rid of their default shit router aha, they lock you down and make you use it, I replaced my BT router asap (That was also just as bad as the sky one) 

 

Yeah, it is a bummer, especially with lackluster wifi range and no wifi repeater.  You used to be able to use your own router with Sky (unofficially of course) a few years ago without Sky breathing down your neck.  Nowadays, I rely on powerline adapters to reach places.