Broadband Providers - some recommendations please!

[hughjayteens]

www.plus.net is who I am with and they are very good - cheapest around and good support.

I have also heard good things about Pipex, and if you fancy supporting a PHer, www.nildram.com would be the one to go for!

[squirrelz]

I'm with Force9 which is the same company as plus.net. Technically the service is quite good, but I had problems a while back when BT disconnected the ADSL, and Force9 would not help at all to get it sorted out.
Spent weeks going between BT and Force9, with each of them saying it was the other one's fault, and ended up having to pay to get reconnected to avoid it taking months.

[BarryG]

Have a look at www.ispreview.co.uk/ - I found this very useful recently

[beano500]

Gotta give up Broadband and go back to Steam Powered Dial up...

Moving to just outside Watford too - what a b****r, the ADSL won't stretch that far..


wonder what alternatives there are? Satellite? Cable? .......

[ginettag27]

Yep, I use Nildram and must admit the service and contention ratio is superb.

[malman]

Another happy Nildram user here .

Avoid BT. enuff said

[theexcession]

At home I'm on Easynet, DSL with BT - its a corporate account that has 'real' Internet IP addresses - not NAT'd - service quality is excellent - never really had any problems apart from the fact that in our company - 5 people working from their homes - between us we have bolloxed the sum total of 7 BT ADSL routers - all had a failure in the power supply.

Make a note to keep the router in a place where it will get a good air flow as they run quite hot.

However we all got new ones within 24 hrs so can't complain too much.

I think the charge is about £35/month for the half Mbit line.

regards
Ade

[TJMurphy]

Another happy Nildram user - who's the PH'er I'm helping to keep in a TVR then and can I have a go please?