Business broadband & Telephone

[MrReg]

Moving into a new office at the end of March and will require broadband and a couple of lines coming in (other lines via voip so will need to be decent speed).
Location wise it's saying normal broadband would be 17MB down / 1MB up, business fibre being 80MB down / 20MB up, and Virgin offering 76MB down.

Any suggestions to providers?

[Burrow01]

Zen Internet have been great for me - reliable, fast and with good support

[Troubleatmill]

ATEOD - You can buy your electricity from anyone. But in reality - if something goes Pete Tong - it comes down to the supplier who has the equipment in the cabinet and cables

In my experience - the same for broadband.

[andyb28]

Troubleatmill said:

ATEOD - You can buy your electricity from anyone. But in reality - if something goes Pete Tong - it comes down to the supplier who has the equipment in the cabinet and cables

In my experience - the same for broadband.

That is simply not the case.

My company provides ADSL to businesses only, we are not an LLU, but control our own network in London Datacentres. Therefore we are able to join our network to BT's via L2TP and utilise BT the the copper to our clients premises.

As such, we are able to work with BT for any problems with their equipment and they really do work hard on our behalf.

[cuneus]

andyb28 said:

Troubleatmill said:

ATEOD - You can buy your electricity from anyone. But in reality - if something goes Pete Tong - it comes down to the supplier who has the equipment in the cabinet and cables

In my experience - the same for broadband.

That is simply not the case.

My company provides ADSL to businesses only, we are not an LLU, but control our own network in London Datacentres. Therefore we are able to join our network to BT's via L2TP and utilise BT the the copper to our clients premises.

As such, we are able to work with BT for any problems with their equipment and they really do work hard on our behalf.

Which is effectively what he said

(although some suppliers do work harder and play the system better)

[andyb28]

re-reading it, perhaps that is what was meant.

My point was to try and explain that just because BT run copper to your house, this does not make them the best ISP for you. Which is often what people do think.