Broadband - which is best

[Seany88]

Hi all,

Basically, want broadband 8mb who's best? Cable is installed in my area, had ntl before. What is the difference between cable and ADSL in practical terms?

Sky package looks good, £25/mth with tv, phone and 16mb broadband! But read a lot of bad reviews, though these were all before xmas...has it got better since then?

Thanks

[cactussed]

I use sky (8mbp package).
Does what it says on the tin, with download speeds usually close to or at maximum.
Easy set up and install.

And good value too IMHO. I live in Limehouse so don't know if that makes a difference as nfi about the local exchange there.

Also, cannot comment on other providers.

[Tonsko]

This site should tell you everything you need to know...


www.dslzoneuk.net/

[Scraggles]

www.adslguide.org is an alternative

think what u want to use it for, cheapest service is not the best service

[rich 36]

What thoughts on
Talk Talk

I'm with BT at the moment, and it costs the earth
but service with occasional failures are dealt with promptly,

[that daddy]

Talk talk,LOL
I use Orange unlimited 5.3meg thats the best i can get rather than 8meg i am rural(old phone system/lines)happy jack,have been for 3 years with freeserve/wanadoo/orange no problems.

Edited by that daddy on Saturday 24th February 17:59

[panclan]

Scraggles said:

www.adslguide.org is an alternative

think what u want to use it for, cheapest service is not the best service

Its changed name now to www.thinkbroadband.com

[Zad]

Remember that all the 8Mb providers are all "up to 8Mb". It all depends how far from the exchange you are as to what speed you will get. If you get 6.5Mb with one provider then you will almost certainly get 6.5Mb from the other providers. Only if your exchange is unbundled (check here - www.samknows.com/broadband/search.php ) will you be using anything other than the standard BT ADSL termination equipment. BeThere offer "up to 24Mb" by installing their own ADSL2+ equipment at your exchange (should you be fortunate enough to have your local exchange enabled). Uncapped downloads and no traffic shaping for £24 a month.

[Seany88]

Just an update, plumped for virgin in the end, seemed like quite a good deal with tv combined, though heard rumours that since sky blocked virgin from buying ITV virgin are now not going to have skyone anymore?

Oh btw i'm 1.2km from my exchange, so in with a pretty good chance of getting 10mb right?

[howmanlass]

that daddy said:

Talk talk,LOL
I use Orange unlimited 5.3meg thats the best i can get rather than 8meg i am rural(old phone system/lines)happy jack,have been for 3 years with freeserve/wanadoo/orange no problems.

Edited by that daddy on Saturday 24th February 17:59

What's the problem with Talk Talk?

They rang us today with an offer for a business package which sounded much better than the deal we currently have and we were also thinking about swapping over from Virgin for our home setup too but if they have reliability problems then I'd think twice about it.

[Scraggles]

check out the forums, adslguide resolves to the new site automatically

talktalk, plusnet, virging, sky seem to suffer from the ability to take the cash for long term contract and fob u off with the excuses, if u want it safe go with them, if not check out the forums there and on dslreports and decide for oyurself

on a package that costs £40 pm, seems to be pretty good

[nickfrp]

www.plus.net

great no problems at all and if you dont cancel your contract for 2 years with them they give you a wireless router (i think) 8mb

[Phil Hopkins]

Demon. Not the cheapest, but in two years of having the home office 1000 product (£24.99), we've never had ANY problems at all.

[sarkmeister]

Ive just signed up with Tiscali (couldnt get the super duper sky package in my area)

Its £17.99 for 8mb and unlimited, and they only took 4 days to install it. All working well so far.

[NorthEast]

I have just changed to Sky from BT. No problems with BT except cost. Changed to Sky £5/month it went smoothly and everything works (well last time I looked it was).

[Seany88]

nickfrp said:

www.plus.net

great no problems at all and if you dont cancel your contract for 2 years with them they give you a wireless router (i think) 8mb

That last bit, does a wireless router limit the speed of your connection?

[david godfrey]

I signed up with SKY as it was only £10 - in the process of line testing was told i could definatly get 4MB its currently fluctuating between 5MB and 7MB, no disconnects, well happy with it moved from pipex.

[nail_it]

Vodafone have just launched their broadband package.
No idea if it's any good but price seems good if you have a vodafone account.