I am currently with Orange, I get a mx of about 1.7 download speed each day but by 5.30pm each day till 10.30pm my ping is so bad on BF2, I am getting kicked off british servers for 250+ pings.

I have no adware/spyware running

So I think its Orange overloaded.

My line should take up to 4.5Megabits

ANY IDEAS WHAT ISP IS WORTH LOOKING AT PLEASE???

Stay away from Tiscali.

I am having similar trouble due to over subscription.

Between 6 and 11 and all weekend I have wildly fluctuating pings
which makes BF2 interesting to say the least.

I have gone to talk talk

they gave me a good deal and came well recommended but I wont be playing BF2 during peak times till 19th December - estimated time

Ah.

Well just so long as you do not want to do any p2p downloading (torrents, iPlayer, 4OD etc) or gaming during peak hours (16:00 - 00:00), then talktalk should be fine.

You do?

Oh dear.

Suggested slogan:
"Talk Talk - We're cheap (and nasty)"

i pay 22 a month for 10mb from virgin..
occasional outage, once in a blue moon...
Never get the full speed, but i get a good speed none the less, never have ping probs
it hates p2p, and torrents, cant play while theyre running..
can dl at like 1.2mb/s u0pload at about 100kb/s on good days
free phone line too.. i dont use it tho i just got it cos it was cheaper than the interweb on its own:s
takes fibre optics so none of that wireless or goin through bts servers took about 2 weeks for em to install it
i think they have a 30 or 50 squid isntallation charge now, or something..

its only a fiver so worth a try as the bishop said to the prostitute!