General : Another price rise for stand alone customers?

[Synthetic]

Pretty much yes to all your questions, but if you wanted wifi you'd have to plug your isp router into the tp-link before your pc / whatever else you're looking to wire in.

If you upload with ftp or something that uses multiple threads then yes you'll see the improved upload too

[pip08456]

Exactly. Pretty simple really.

[Jinxey]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

I think it is only once a year i.e. the customers getting the increase would have last had an increase in October 2013 (if they've been with Virgin Media long enough) http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php...rice-hike.html

Definitely two this year, and last year. As Dave says in his quote below, He had one in February 2013 (as did I), I am not sure why he didn't in October as everyone did as seen on the article you posted. I know I had one then. As for this year I had one in February and therefore downgraded my service from the old 60Mb (Now 100) to the new 50Mb (the old 30) to save about £10. Now its going up again

Originally Posted by dave6x

Just to clarify: I've been a standalone broadband customer for over 12 years, the most recent price increases on my account have been as follows:

1st April 2011 - £0.75
1st April 2012 - £1.50
1st Feb 2013 - £1.15
1st Feb 2014 - £2.00
proposed 1st Oct 2014 - £1.50

So there will have been 2 price increase within this year.

As far as my broadband L goes that will amount to an increase from £16.26 to £23.16, an increase of 42% in less than 4 years.

Should have had one in October 2013 too. See http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php...rice-hike.html

An extra 2.50!

Originally Posted by Mr K

These standalone BB customers deserve a price rise. They want to get a more balanced life and watch the telly more or phone the mother-in-law instead of spending all day on the interweb. Get a life.

Well I do watch television, just do not feel the need to pay for premium channels that I wouldn't have time to watch as I am busy socialising. Oh, and I am quite happy to pay my mobile contract for calls rather than paying for a land line which requires line rental and then paying for calls on top of that. I have an unlimited mobile contract, which does the job fine.

I don't see the point wasting money on things I won't use enough. Hence why I use Virgin Media, because I can have broadband without paying for a landline! Based on that, I will continue to use them and negotiate a better deal every year

[NuttehButteh]

Originally Posted by Synthetic

Pretty much yes to all your questions, but if you wanted wifi you'd have to plug your isp router into the tp-link before your pc / whatever else you're looking to wire in.

If you upload with ftp or something that uses multiple threads then yes you'll see the improved upload too

Thanks for your reply - I see that makes sense. I will play around with it and see. So I put it in the TP link also. I see

[Synthetic]

Yeah, basically you'l want to plug the OR modem and SH in modem mode into the tp-link WAN ports, then your wifi router into a LAN port on the tp-link, and then connect your pc etc to the wireless router as you normally would.

But yeah give it a go when you get it, I'm sure it'll make sense

[NuttehButteh]

It is already - thanks for the advice.

I was hoping to sort of drop a device to power this one as I am running out of sockets but I guess I won't be able to now Luckily they can all sit on a 4 way adapter than I will leave on like I do now. I assume that that ISP modem will still auth? Or do I need to put them into the TP-LINK?

[Synthetic]

Yeah the ISP modems (OR and SHUB) will connect to the lines then the TP-Link will deal with the auth (like if you were using your own router with a FTTC service anyway) however I don't think you'll need to configure that in the tp-link for the VM connection as the SHUB will do all that, you can just connect it to the WAN port on the tp-link and it should just route the traffic through that way.

I've never actually done this however so maybe Igni can confirm what I'm saying is correct!

[NuttehButteh]

Ah poo it.

I might just scrap the wireless (which will help stop me taking my IPAD to bed and getting bad sleep from staring at the screen before trying to sleep) and just have HG612 + SH2 into TPLINK and then into Imac.

I have in the past managed to have it connected to a tp-link normal AP and then had the wireless going too from the SH2 but I wont try that again lol

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

there is an aim to beat BT in both directions.

Took them long enough, BT's been miles ahead for nearly half a decade now.

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Originally Posted by Synthetic

Thanks for the recommendation, that one actually came up when I was looking the other day, looks like it'd be worth the investment and it's probably the one I'll go for if I do decide to do the balancing

Lots of cheapo routers can be modified to do the same for free, as can an old/cheap laptop, the latter of which will handle much faster connections and perform a lot better.

[Synthetic]

Yeah I was looking at using an old PC + pfsense to properly bond the 2 lines we have at work but a bit overkill for a home connection.

Got an example of a router than can do this?I'm running a TP-Link WDR4900 with DD-WRT right now, only has the 1 WAN port but if I could figure one of the LAN ports to accept another WAN connection it could probably do it....

[NuttehButteh]

Originally Posted by Synthetic

YI'm running a TP-Link WDR4900 with DD-WRT right now, only has the 1 WAN port but if I could figure one of the LAN ports to accept another WAN connection it could probably do it....

If you get a way to do it let me know. I have 4 4 port AP's all tp link hanging round here - you can have one for nowt. All cable ofcourse.

a TP-Link WR1043ND is an example. it's got DD-WRT running on it also.

[Synthetic]

Googling it right now but it doesn't seem the router I have can do it even with dd-wrt unfortunately, considering getting one of those tp-link load balancing routers for work, let me know how it turns out when you get it please, I have to justify spending £100+ of our budget but I think failover will be more than an adequate reason.

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by Synthetic

Yeah I was looking at using an old PC + pfsense to properly bond the 2 lines we have at work but a bit overkill for a home connection. Got an example of a router than can do this?I'm running a TP-Link WDR4900 with DD-WRT right now, only has the 1 WAN port but if I could figure one of the LAN ports to accept another WAN connection it could probably do it....

It's very easy to do, since all the ports on that router are actually exactly the same. The only way a WAN port exists at all, is by the operating system pretending as such in software, hence any port can be set to any type. Pretty much all consumer TP-Links are configured in this way.

[NuttehButteh]

Originally Posted by Synthetic

Googling it right now but it doesn't seem the router I have can do it even with dd-wrt unfortunately, considering getting one of those tp-link load balancing routers for work, let me know how it turns out when you get it please, I have to justify spending £100+ of our budget but I think failover will be more than an adequate reason.

I will let you know for sure.

[qasdfdsaq]

I've already let him know for sure. Not sure what there is still to know.

Regardless if it's a corporate solution you are after and you need support (and are not willing to do it yourself) then paying extra for a "certified" solution is perfectly reasonable. If you want cheap or are willing to look after it yourself instead of relying on an outside company to point the finger at if it blows up, DIY is far superior.