Started with Pipex yesterday and the speed is fine for me. A couple of k down on NTLs speed, but I can live with that. Webpages are exploded onto the screen, instead of dribbled as it was with NTL. I suspect it's the lack of proxies. Tested my ping to the games servers I play and it was about 2ms more than on NTL, which to me is nothing, ie 20ms as opposed to 18ms on NTL. Good news was though, not a single sign of packet loss, unlike NTL, which dropped packets every once in a while and had a few terrible hops on the way. Binary news servers seems to have a service call against them at the moment. I was on them last night. There is a kind of stuttering delay to them at the moment. It completes ok, but takes longer as for every x seconds of download you get x seconds of delay. If they get them fixed then I will be one very happy bunny as the speeds at which things came down when they were coming down from them was pretty good for an ISP news service, something like 95-100KB/s for me.
Installation is free at the moment and if you get the xtreme 1meg package (and the other unlimited packages I think) they will throw in a free USB modem and a couple of pretty good splitters. I took this simply to get some splitters for my other phones and a backup modem for my DLINK ethernet jobbie!
