Never been with Talk Talk to many stories of being crappy
EE-- was with them for 5 months told them to stuff it-- billing problems nothing near speed should get ,disconnects
SKy- with them for years sorted most problems out-- but ended up by being with them paying more for basic +plus net /phone,than daughter was paying for full package in net/phone-----was going to swap to just fibre but £50 instal fee[think they ditched it now] £54 pm
BT_ first month got cut off-endless billing,package raised by £10pm within a yr,ended up getting ofcom involved,net was good on-was paying £51pm
Plusnet fibre/24/7 phone- had a first stumble not connected for 2 weeks after original date,on plus side had a problem fibre speed was crap,found use the forum near on instant solved,not dropped at all----cost less than BT by near on £20 pm discounted £32.99 for 9 then £39.99
As for stutter this maybe not be there fault this can be where its routed to ,to your router a hub in link could be problem they have no control where it goes,also Router can be problem,Plustnet technics[fibre] one is not that brill,and have read 20% increase with a good router
to give you an idea i game on a NY server sometimes the problem lays at that end,traced it once -my house-london-Germany California-Dallas Ny - NY---it was middle NY data center cause my ping to raise and cause me to stutter.
As mentioned it is good to turn of and reset the router now and again [only if using original wep/wap key or you will have to redo it] basic spring clean it!,if you have a username/password,look at upgrading routers, a lot of the newer ones now use PPOe[no user /pw needed linked to phone and hidden] but you will have to manually change a newer one if software does not do it..
Now with Sky if you have one of the antique old white router you can search there forum theres a prog linked that will crack the router Pw/User name,i know i did it lol and used a lot better router......
If you want to do a trace[sky get you to do it to see if there a prob with hub on router]
you can use this ip[its game server for Battlefield 4 i play on] if your having a problem with a web page use whois.com to find ip---to do a trace
Start click on run-type CMD hit enter or start- Accessories -command prompt
type in tracert then space followed by ip numbers you only use first 4 blocks
192.223.27.232 then press enter[return]
if you see a big jump in middle thats where problem may be with getting a stream etc,note in this copy london jumps to 115:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\andy>tracert 192.223.27.232
Tracing route to c-192-223-27-232.internap-nyc.nfoservers.com [192.223.27.232]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms dsldevice.lan [192.168.1.254]
2 11 ms 9 ms 8 ms lo0-central10.ptw-ag02.plus.net [195.166.128.196
]
3 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms link-b-central10.ptw-gw02.plus.net [212.159.2.15
0]
4 8 ms 11 ms 8 ms xe-0-2-0.ptw-cr02.plus.net [212.159.0.250]
5 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms ae2.ptw-cr01.plus.net [195.166.129.4]
6 10 ms 115 ms 10 ms te-3-4.car5.London1.Level3.net [217.163.45.181]
7 9 ms 18 ms 9 ms ae-52-52.csw2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.120]
8 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms ae-225-3601.edge3.London1.Level3.net [4.69.166.1
46]
9 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms 4.68.70.78
10 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms ae10.mpr2.lhr2.uk.above.net [64.125.31.194]
11 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms ae2.mpr3.lhr3.uk.above.net [64.125.22.73]
12 78 ms 78 ms 78 ms ae3.cr1.lga5.us.above.net [64.125.21.205]
13 78 ms 78 ms 79 ms ae1.cr2.lga5.us.above.net [64.125.29.38]
14 78 ms 78 ms 78 ms ae3.er4.lga5.us.above.net [64.125.31.246]
15 79 ms 78 ms 78 ms 208.184.110.78.IPYX-072053-004-ZYO.above.net [20
8.184.110.78]
16 79 ms 79 ms 79 ms core1.te2-1-bbnet1.nyj001.pnap.net [216.52.95.11
]
17 135 ms 89 ms 237 ms border1.pc2-bbnet2.ext1.nym.pnap.net [216.52.95.
78]
18 79 ms 79 ms 79 ms c-192-223-27-232.internap-nyc.nfoservers.com [19
2.223.27.232]
Trace complete.
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