ADSL ISP Sticky

[Scraggles]

well you need a team of diggers and a manager for the team, then a team to fit the cables and a manager, same for the poles, add markup and it is quite cheap, but considering they have a monopoly, you don't really have much choice

[oobster]

oobster said:

oobster said:

Currently on orange broadband, pay £17.99 per month. I have been with them since they were freeserve.

Any suggestions on a cheaper alternative that will give me similar or better results?

Edited by oobster on Tuesday 19th January 15:09

Decided to go with Sky, they were doing their unlimited package free for 6 months then a tenner a month thereafter.

I expected problems with the swap over but it all ran VERY smoothly, here are the results I am getting now (test done on a Thursday early evening - 6:15pm UK time):

Well 4 months on I now regret my decision to swap to Sky. My wireless connection between the laptop and the router keeps dropping out - sometimes it is fine for an hour other times it drops out 3 times in 10 minutes. Never had this problem with orange (using the same laptop so I assume it MUST be something to do with the Sky router). I've sent an email to Sky this evening but I am not expecting an east resolution.

[ajprice]

Any recommendations for broadband? I'll be moving to a flat soon so will be getting my own broadband. I've mainly been looking at Orange (Home Max is £20pm inc broadband, phone and line rental). Not interested in a TV bundle, just a decent broadband and maybe phone. The less money per month the better. I went to the O2 shop last weekend and they can only offer their Access connection at the moment, the others aren't available because BT haven't released something on the lines to make them available (I'm guessing she meant LLU?).

I'm in Wrexham, North Wales.

[ajprice]

Currently looking at Orange or Plusnet. Anyone else with these?

[Simon says]

ajprice said:

Currently looking at Orange or Plusnet. Anyone else with these?

[URL=http://www.speedtest.net][/URL] not bad at peak time for £4.99 a month(i also have my mobile with orange)been with them since the Freeserve/Wanadoo days never had a single problem with em always used my own equipment though and a BT-i plate and proper cabling consistent too(note time difference) [URL=http://www.speedtest.net][/URL]

Edited by Simon says on Monday 5th July 22:29

[Morningside]

It feels like 1998 again. This is so painful. Anyone else finding Tiscali (or whatever its called this week) is on a go-slow?

[Platinum]

Morningside said:

It feels like 1998 again. This is so painful. Anyone else finding Tiscali (or whatever its called this week) is on a go-slow?

I'm on what used to be called Pipex, and yes its terrible. Between 40 & 60kb/s on a 2Mb line (up until recently I was getting nearly 200kb/s.)

[otherman]

I'm on bethere at £17 per month. Far from the cheapest but the performance is worth it in my book. Talktalk keep calling (I use their phone service) and telling my I can have their broadband free....but free rubish is not what I want.

[Rude-boy]

TalkTalk/AOL

Thought I would give them a go after being pissed at BT for not bothering to tell me that they were charging me way over the odds for their service. Hell if someone as mercenary as Vodafone can call me every so often to check my price plan is working out for me I'm sure BT could have at least tried. Oh and I hate those stupid adverts of theirs and was getting a bit of wonder lust after being with them for 13 years.

Life hasn't started off on the best foot with me being off line at home (other than kind neighbours allowing me to pikey on to theirs) http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... but let's see if they are as bad as some say they are over the next few months.

[ruggles]

[URL=http://www.speedtest.net][/URL]


BT infinity installed today so quite happy after paying the same price for Virgin 2.4mb previously..could have higher upload but this was the cheaper option.

[Morningside]

ruggles said:

[URL=http://www.speedtest.net][/URL]


BT infinity installed today so quite happy after paying the same price for Virgin 2.4mb previously..could have higher upload but this was the cheaper option.

Awesome. That is some motoring. How far are you from the exchange?

[ruggles]

Morningside said:

ruggles said:

[URL=http://www.speedtest.net][/URL]


BT infinity installed today so quite happy after paying the same price for Virgin 2.4mb previously..could have higher upload but this was the cheaper option.

Awesome. That is some motoring. How far are you from the exchange?

Its now fibre optic from the exchange (approx 1.5 miles) to the cabinet in the street and then the normal copper connection on the telegragh poles to the cabinet. Hopefully I can now enjoy surfing at the same time my son faffs around on his xbox!

[Red Cabbage]

Idnet. UK based outfit with no contract, great customer service. I pay £24.99 for up to 8MB with a high monthly download limit. ( I forget what it is but I have never hit it.)

[Scraggles]

think my limit is 1 TB, some people used to hit it and got moved to a special server, most seem to have left

[MondeoMan1981]

Recently moved to Orange from AOL.

Orange 20mb, unlimited downloads, evening and weekend calls, line rental. £11.50 a month for 4 months then £19 thereafter.

I was actually getting this speed when it was first switched a few weeks back, then when Orange took over the landline from BT about 10 days ago, the arse fell right out of it and I was getting 5mb. Called up to complain and line profile was down at 3.5mb when it should have been 14mb. Exchange is no more than half a mile away.

Orange "Level 2 Support" told me I wont be able to get more than 14mb as I use a netgear router, whats that all about, its the same as the one they supply...

Edited by MondeoMan1981 on Saturday 23 October 16:35

[sidaorb]

Think I might do the same again tonight at around 9pm, damn sure it will be loads worse

Orange Home. Just wish it wasn't so crap when I'm trying to play online gaming.

Edited by sidaorb on Thursday 11th November 18:16

[jacobpalmer05]

sidaorb said:

Think I might do the same again tonight at around 9pm, damn sure it will be loads worse

Orange Home. Just wish it wasn't so crap when I'm trying to play online gaming.

Edited by sidaorb on Thursday 11th November 18:16

Depending on where you live, orange, sky, etc etc may rent BT's bandwidth and BT obviously only give a small amount to them and as such your internet gets very busy and slow very quickly unlike BT, or any other provider with their own lines. This tends to be the case in villages more than towns / cities.

on BT unlimited , £25 a month, upto 8meg I get around 6.5-7. With about 400 upload. Unlimited download but with a fair useage of 100GB which I regularly exceed bringing my speeds down to under 1meg for a month >.<.

[matg]

check out UKFSN.org

Great service, good price and excellent download allowances, I'm on Family 30:

http://ukfsn.org/home/internet/adsl/