Sure but how does that relate to being better for gaming? I'm just asking for tangible advantages that AAISP offers for that task.
Better support and so on are perfectly reasonable advantages, I am just struggling to see how for gaming AAISP is any better than Zen, or even BT or TalkTalk if I am honest.
That increase in latency any time you upload or download that you were complaining about in another thread recently.
Have you compared an AAISP BQM to a BT BQM? They can be night and day.
A long speed test or big download on my BT FTTP shows up clear as day on a BQM.
The majority of AAISP BQM's I look at are practically a flat green line.
The lower contention on their network is fantastic for latency.
If you have rubbish routing to a particular game server, say bouncing to the continent and back despite it being a UK server (see it all the time), how many of the ISP's you named above could you get through to the person who would fix that? It's none.
I can see the arguement that they are overpriced, that the benefits aren't worth the premium paid, but to argue it's the same as Talktalk and BT is ridiculous.
Neither even offer a static IP as an option.
AAISP give you enough static IP's to give every device in your home 1.
I wouldn't pay what they charge but I can see many benefits to gaming, and many other benefits on top.
I'll add, Talktalk also use the OpenReach Standard DLM profile making anyone on an ECI cabinet much more likely to be interleaved, adding 8ms latency. Horrible for gaming.
BT seem to randomly assign the Speed or Standard profile.
Talktalk refuse to change it and it's near impossible to get BT to do so (high level complaints etc).
AAISP will put you on any DLM profile you like.