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I use Bulldog as they were doing a deal on a 2mb line at a silly price (£27 a month), they seem fine, no worries. Had BT before that and had no worries there either.
Its all supplied by a division of BT so will be much of a muchness at the end of the day. I have heard good things about Nildram though.
www.adslguide.org.uk
www.btopenwoe.org.uk
There are a few others as well.
PS - YHM
>> Edited by Plotloss on Wednesday 19th November 12:18
Its all supplied by a division of BT so will be much of a muchness at the end of the day. I have heard good things about Nildram though.
www.adslguide.org.uk
www.btopenwoe.org.uk
There are a few others as well.
PS - YHM
>> Edited by Plotloss on Wednesday 19th November 12:18
AOL 
Put the mouse down and step away from the computer.
I use BT Broadband because it's BT and you only have to complain to one place if something goes wrong. Nothing has gone wrong.
AOL put blocks on certain services. For one they block a lot of ports that P2P software shares, a friend of mine couldn't even upload via FTP without a lot of headache and bodging.
I think BT and Pipex are two to start with.
>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Wednesday 19th November 12:24
Put the mouse down and step away from the computer.
I use BT Broadband because it's BT and you only have to complain to one place if something goes wrong. Nothing has gone wrong.
AOL put blocks on certain services. For one they block a lot of ports that P2P software shares, a friend of mine couldn't even upload via FTP without a lot of headache and bodging.
I think BT and Pipex are two to start with.
>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Wednesday 19th November 12:24
I've never had a problem with NTL - and the benefit is you have your own line and don't suffer degradation with number of users (well, not as much as BT exchange BB).
AOL is for beginners. It is strictly controlled but you get shed loads of spam to your AOL address. They do have some very strange chatroom names though
AOL is for beginners. It is strictly controlled but you get shed loads of spam to your AOL address. They do have some very strange chatroom names though
www.plus.net
Been with them for nearly two years, no problems and their support people seem to be intelligent people rather than idiots following scripts.
They're one of the cheapest around (£22.99 per month for 512/256), and no restrictions (ports/services/bandwidth).
If you do decide to sign up, email me first as I get a discount for referring people (50p per person per month
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Been with them for nearly two years, no problems and their support people seem to be intelligent people rather than idiots following scripts.
They're one of the cheapest around (£22.99 per month for 512/256), and no restrictions (ports/services/bandwidth).
If you do decide to sign up, email me first as I get a discount for referring people (50p per person per month
) FourWheelDrift said:
I use BT Broadband because it's BT and you only have to complain to one place if something goes wrong. Nothing has gone wrong.
Same here, did need to ring them because I had some issues with the connection and they said "it's a problem with your ISP" so I asked them to put me through....
Needless to say they found a fault at the exchange.
I am with Nildram and no problems to report. Always a good performer on the ADSLGuide.org website.
Personnally I'd rather have a 24/7 connection rather than a limited connection albeit a fatter pipe.
If I am downloading something, you can just leave it running no problems. Often with the downloads internet traffic is a more major problem.
If it is for online gaming then a bigger connection is going to be more preferable but to be honest you wont see that much of an increase
Personnally I'd rather have a 24/7 connection rather than a limited connection albeit a fatter pipe.
If I am downloading something, you can just leave it running no problems. Often with the downloads internet traffic is a more major problem.
If it is for online gaming then a bigger connection is going to be more preferable but to be honest you wont see that much of an increase
Have a butchers at www.adslguide.org.uk
Nildram always get good reviews.
I used Force9/PlusNet for a couple of years, but they were absolutely no help when BT managed to cease the ADSL service on my line. Ended up with the "its their fault not ours" from both parties, and neither willing to speak to the other. Only found out that it was really BT's fault through an inside contact....
Using Blueyonder cable broadband now, but obviously its only available where you can get cable.
Nildram always get good reviews.
I used Force9/PlusNet for a couple of years, but they were absolutely no help when BT managed to cease the ADSL service on my line. Ended up with the "its their fault not ours" from both parties, and neither willing to speak to the other. Only found out that it was really BT's fault through an inside contact....
Using Blueyonder cable broadband now, but obviously its only available where you can get cable.
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