Orange v Tiscali v BT v Pipex v the rest

[pistonbroke PHd]

I use Orange, £18 a month. Hardly ever had a problem. Don't ask me what the Gb figure is, I don't know. All I do know is that it works.

Just noticed (right here on this forum) an ad for Pipex, about £9 a month I think.

With the difference I could, for example, cover the premium for Sky HD.

So should I dump Orange for Pipex? I tried the Sky broadband service once and got rid of it quickly as it was crap. I like reliability, so I went back to Orange again.

[Plotloss]

Without knowing what you use your broadband for its very difficult to advise you what to do.

Personally I think spending more for broadband would be a way of avoiding Skys HD charges.

[pistonbroke PHd]

Well, I use broadband for THIS most of the time!

I don't download very often (usually software) and I never play games. Just surfing all the most popular porn sites like Amazon, Autotrader, eBay etc etc, and forums like the P&P.

Edited by pistonbroke PHd on Tuesday 30th October 13:04

[Plotloss]

If its just surfing and the odd bit of software then buy on price and price alone.

[sleep envy]

stay away from poopex

have you looked at eclipse?

[Plotloss]

sleep envy said:

have you looked at eclipse?

Not directly I hope, through a pin hole camera at the most.

[sleep envy]

Plotloss said:

sleep envy said:

have you looked at eclipse?

Not directly I hope, through a pin hole camera at the most.

or with TJW's sunnies

[pistonbroke PHd]

sleep envy said:

stay away from poopex

have you looked at eclipse?

and poopex is poop because............?

[plasticpig]

pistonbroke PHd said:

sleep envy said:

stay away from poopex

have you looked at eclipse?

and poopex is poop because............?

It was bought by Tiscali. They are all shite really. Anyone who pays £7.99 - £20 a month and expects a high quality service is living in cloud cuckoo land.

[Mattt]

plasticpig said:

pistonbroke PHd said:

sleep envy said:

stay away from poopex

have you looked at eclipse?

and poopex is poop because............?

It was bought by Tiscali. They are all shite really. Anyone who pays £7.99 - £20 a month and expects a high quality service is living in cloud cuckoo land.

No, they could switch to Be* and get 8mb unlimited broadband for £14/month with great service - 24hour free helpdesk too. I pay £18 and get upto 24mb (not quite there though).

[plasticpig]

Mattt said:

plasticpig said:

pistonbroke PHd said:

sleep envy said:

stay away from poopex

have you looked at eclipse?

and poopex is poop because............?

It was bought by Tiscali. They are all shite really. Anyone who pays £7.99 - £20 a month and expects a high quality service is living in cloud cuckoo land.

No, they could switch to Be* and get 8mb unlimited broadband for £14/month with great service - 24hour free helpdesk too. I pay £18 and get upto 24mb (not quite there though).

Just wait until the shit hits the fan big time. Then see what level of service you get.

[Mattt]

Well i've had problems before, and they have been resolved easily. There is a decent user forum, where staff and experienced users help out. I know people who have been with them since their early trials in London - and have had no issues.

Only slight issue is the box they give you is a bit crap for wireless, but you can just use your own - and most ISPs at this price range don't even give you one.

[philthy]

sleep envy said:

stay away from poopex

have you looked at eclipse?

I am suffering terrible service at the moment with them, and working out who to jump ship to.
Not for the first time either, it's just such a ball ache moving broadband supplier.

[Graham]

stop messing about with chav broadband and get a proper connection


www.zenadsl.co.uk


yes it costs a little more and yes it is a vastly superior service...

G

[chris.mapey]

Got to say Tiscali are much better than they used to be, we now pay £20 ish per month for 2Mb broandband, line rental & free evening & weekend calls. No BT rental to pay.

So cheap and it's been reliable (so far)

Hope that helps

Chris

[qube_TA]

99% of the time if you're having connection problems with ADSL and it's not due to your own equipment it's due to a crappy BT line and nothing to do with the ISP so changing won't help.

[sleep envy]

pistonbroke PHd said:

sleep envy said:

stay away from poopex

have you looked at eclipse?

and poopex is poop because............?

tragic customer services, inconsistent service, accounts dept dire

need I go on?

[pistonbroke PHd]

I guess not. I must admit I can't fault Orange (or Wanadoo as it was when I signed up), I don't know what their customer service is like because I don't think I've ever called them. I just wondered if I could get the same for half the price. Seems not - guess YGWYPF

cheers

[fastfreddy]

sleep envy said:

pistonbroke PHd said:

sleep envy said:

stay away from poopex

have you looked at eclipse?

and poopex is poop because............?

tragic customer services, inconsistent service, accounts dept dire

need I go on?

Very true and very sad that a company who started out as one of the best is now one of the worst by a long way. I have got a complaint into Ofcom about them and it looks like I'll have to go to the ombudsman to sort it finally.

[RoadRailer]

Graham said:

stop messing about with chav broadband and get a proper connection


www.zenadsl.co.uk


yes it costs a little more and yes it is a vastly superior service...

G

Seconded.

I pay £52 per month for the Zen Office 50gig package - 832up/8128down(new BT copper from chez railer to the exchange ) - my line will flatline at 830KBps day or night.

You do get what you pay for.

Router PPPoA uptime in many hundreds of hours (until I bork some config and have to reboot it )