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[phi2008]

I'm waiting for customer reviews before deciding whether to give them consideration.

[Oldjim]

I am watching this thread in lieu of anything better http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/f/4481381-sse-talk-anytime-broadband-and-calls-package.html?vc=1

[roswellgrey]

I am migrating to them next week ... I couldn't resist the price saving compared to what I am paying now, and must admit I am curious as to the service performance at that price point ... will let you know how it goes

[jamespeters]

[phi2008]

Sounds excellent James, many people are going to be taking a look at them and they are still a bit of an unknown quantity for most of us. 

[jamespeters]

Thanks - I hope it is useful to many people either already signed up to SSE or thinking of joining.

[jamespeters]

Just to update everyone.

I was connected to SSE Ultrafast FTTC service yesterday and I've been doing speed tests since I was connected throughout the day, and also this morning and just now (using four different speed test sites).

Looking good here:  http://www.discussisp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=47

[Oldjim]

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TBB results look horrible

[jamespeters]

I think you need to login to view the BT Wholesale results - but they are good.

It only seems to be the Think Broadband ones that I have had any problems with - One of them was showing downloads of over 100Mbps (which is impossible for the connection), but the upload was 0Mbps ! - Something seriously wrong there.

Manual downloads of files looking good.

[plexy]

Been mostly solid here for me since I had it installed. There was a blip around sync speed being lower than before the migration from BT, but its fine now G.INP kicked in.

Speed tests seem nearly always to line speed (minus overhead) on HTTP+HTTP/s and VPN. There can be slight throttling during peak times. Ive tested to both servers based inside of Daisy and external and it seems fine. SSH sessions are as responsive as i would expect. I dont torrent and rarely play games any more so cant comment about that.

ICMP ping is very stable at 13-14, with a lot less jitter then i got from BT (or plusnet before them). With BT my ping was 18-21 and with plusnet it was 9 to 15 - but the two moved around with more jitter. Less jitter on SSE/Daisy.

The only pause for concern was yesterday around 15:00-16:00 when my max speed peaked out at 24mbps - it felt like someone playing with packet scheduling as the time it took for TCP to start ramping up to full speed was much longer than anticipated. All fine again today so hopefully someone just put a bad change in and rolled it back.

[plexy]

Hmm back to 24mbps again as of 10 mins ago. Congestion control.

[roswellgrey]

not surprised tbh ... started to drop here @ around 2000 and recovered @ around 2300  - times vary daily, but the drop is very consistant ...