I got an email from BT saying that its broadband services are to be capped to 15GB/month (512kbit), although it will now drop by £3. Well thank you BT, but when you're charging £2 per gigabyte I think I'm going elsewhere.
So I'm asking which ISP you use, and how good and reliable it is. I could be going for AOL broadband (half speed but £10 cheaper) so I want some good suggestions from you lot.
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Pete Nattress Cheesy Bits img src/uploads/sccheesegif
Registered 23/09/2002
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1st August, 2004 at 12:53:40 -
i'm with plusnet (www.plus.net) 512k, unlimted transfer package. the setup was £70 for modem and line activation, but i don't know how much migration costs. it's £21.99 per month which is quite nice, plus loads of webspace extras, fixed IP with DNS, unlimited email addresses. i have had a BIT of down time, i've been with them about 7 months and had ohhhh about 4 or 5 service dips, but they usually fix it pretty quickly, and the customer support is OK.
Blueyonder 768kbit. Used to have 512k but as a competitive measure they increased all their customer's speeds by 50% for free, so now it's 768k and I can download at nearly 100kb per second.
It's always excellent fast service, but infrequent problems have cut us off before (and their support isn't that great). Apart from that I'd recommend them. No limits on monthly usage or anything, just whatever you can fit down the connection.
Costs et cetera: http://www.telewest.co.uk/html/internet/internet.htm
I'm on Nildram, pretty much cos I wanted the webspace they offered. They got loadsa different deals for different amounts of space and different speeds, I went for 50mb webspace, it's all unlimited bandwith and they're pretty reliable and have excellent customer service, never had any problems. www.nildram.co.uk
I'm on zen, and I have no complaints. it's fast, hasn't disconnected me once, there are no limits. Only thing is it costs a little more than usual (£23/month I think).
That's why I don't want to use AOL Although looking on adslguide.org.uk, a lot of people on there use plusnet and are very happy with it - and it doesn't cost much at all, except for the setup.
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Pete Nattress Cheesy Bits img src/uploads/sccheesegif
Registered 23/09/2002
Points 4811
2nd August, 2004 at 16:43:50 -
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(half speed but £10 cheaper) so I want some good suggestions from you lot.
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