Topic: Best broadband provider?

[filopastry]

Fudge, do you have any idea when Zen are likely to be rolling out their 8Mb service?

[Big Ig]

You're farkin kiddin me?! Shite!

Glad it's on a monthly contract then... Who should I go with instead for 24/7 full whack speeds uncapped?

After a lot of research today, mainly on www.adslguide.org forums, I've cancelled F2S, and once I've heard back off PlusNet about a new MAC code, think I'll be off to Zen. I can only get 1024kbps anyway, so the decision's easy.

I think the heavy downloader's time (that'll be me for one, 30-80 gig a month) will soon be over, at least for a while, unless LLU turns out to be a revelation.

[filopastry]

I tend to agree Big G that the time of unshaped, uncapped connections is ending, partly through economics and partly through some users downloading more than seems feasible now that faster speeds are available

[PaulF]

The theoretical maximum bandwidth a user needs is based on how quickly they can whack off to the porn they've just downloded.  Not quite sure how this works in a shared household....

[Big Ig]

The theoretical maximum bandwidth a user needs is based on how quickly they can whack off to the porn they've just downloded.  Not quite sure how this works in a shared household....

Naive way of looking at it nowadays... More and more people are using broadband and P2P for their all-around entertainment needs. I have a 1Mbps connection, and am using it most of the time for downloading US and UK TV shows and documentaries, and watching streaming sports and news, which I watch almost exclusively - i.e. watch about 1 hour of TV a week, as with broadband I am in control of my viewing.

It'll only take one or two internet-based killer-apps for the majority of people to start demanding more constant useage of bandwidth and force BT and the ISPs to finally give us what they fool us into thinking we're buying - 1:1 contention, i.e. if you're paying for 1024kpbs why can't you use its full capacity 24/7 if you so desire. The opposing argument is that if you wanted to use the full capacity you'd have to pay what the ISP pay for this - a vast amount more than £20 a month. But that'll be BT's exessive charging coming into play. Think we heavy users are in for a rough ride for a few years but it should settle down eventually. I'd gladly pay to watch Thatcher dissolve painfully in a vat of acid, but the one and only thing she had right was to try and get fibre optics installed all over the UK in the 80's.

[PaulF]

I'm a heavy user too, although at the moment I'd argue it is difficult to saturate a line with 'legal' downloads. The new skybybroadband could change all that though.

In reality I suppose we wouldn't need more than one hdtv quality feed per member of the household in 'realtime' unless people can watch more than one thing at a time 

[Beef]

I have got BT Yahoo Broadband, I think it's 27.99 a month or something and it's very good. It's quick, and reliable and I've got no problems with it at all, been with it for just over a year now and have got no plans to change. Anyone I talk to about AOL says it's shit and that they have got nothing but problems, but there is loads of providers now so it's hard to decide.

[rob89]

if you do go for BT and you get a problem the your well and truely fucked. You ring 1 number they give you a different number and then that number gives you another number it not worth the hassle

[Beef]

if you do go for BT and you get a problem the your well and truely fucked. You ring 1 number they give you a different number and then that number gives you another number it not worth the hassle

Anno, I had a problem signing into the Internet not long after we got it. So I was passed on from caller to caller, and eventually had to phone a friend to come round and sort it. The Yahoo Help Feature is shit as well.

[fudge]

Fudge, do you have any idea when Zen are likely to be rolling out their 8Mb service?

I spoke to them last week about it funnily enough , they couldn't give me a date but they did say it was in live trials

[filopastry]

I spoke to them last week about it funnily enough , they couldn't give me a date but they did say it was in live trials

By the time I get my F2s connection ceased they'll probably be rolling out ADSL2

[fudge]

By the time I get my F2s connection ceased they'll probably be rolling out ADSL2

Is that the Return of ADSL?

[filopastry]

ADSL2 - 24Mbps if you live within 2 yards of the exchange

[fudge]

ADSL2 - 24Mbps if you live within 2 yards of the exchange

24 mbps!! just think of the size of tits i can download with that,
 or have i misunderstood the technology again

[filopastry]

24 mbps!! just think of the size of tits i can download with that,
 or have i misunderstood the technology again

No you're spot on, humongous hi-definition tits

[djphal]

who is the best?

im fucking sky off, thinking of Virgin

anyone recommend a decent provider that doesnt cost a bomb

[gray--]

who is the best?

im fucking sky off, thinking of Virgin

anyone recommend a decent provider that doesnt cost a bomb

I'm thinking of going with 'be unlimited'.... I've read the reviews on thinkbroadband.com and they seem to be ok....anyone tell me otherwise?  (£24 a month).

I can't get over people that leave a good provider to gamble £5 cheaper a month to get better value.  If it ain't broken, for the sake of a fiver or even a tenner, don't fix it.

Cheers!

[The dude abides]

if i were to change, I'd go with Orange

their 20 quid a month broadband package comes with a voip phone service

able to ring in UK, and top 30 countries in the world for free, as part of that deal

cousin has it....excellent.

i was staying at  his house last week....and used his laptop every day....the connection was far faster than my own

[filopastry]

I'm thinking of going with 'be unlimited'.... I've read the reviews on thinkbroadband.com and they seem to be ok....anyone tell me otherwise?  (£24 a month).

I can't get over people that leave a good provider to gamble £5 cheaper a month to get better value.  If it ain't broken, for the sake of a fiver or even a tenner, don't fix it.

Cheers!

I've been impressed with them so far in the 6 months I've been with them, although obviously whether they're worth it for you depends on if you're close enough to the exchange to benefit from the higher potential speeds

[djphal]

if i were to change, I'd go with Orange

their 20 quid a month broadband package comes with a voip phone service

able to ring in UK, and top 30 countries in the world for free, as part of that deal

cousin has it....excellent.

i was staying at  his house last week....and used his laptop every day....the connection was far faster than my own

wasnt orange voted the worst broadband provider?

the birds sister was with them and she had a nightmare

I'm thinking of going with 'be unlimited'.... I've read the reviews on thinkbroadband.com and they seem to be ok....anyone tell me otherwise?  (£24 a month).

I can't get over people that leave a good provider to gamble £5 cheaper a month to get better value.  If it ain't broken, for the sake of a fiver or even a tenner, don't fix it.

Cheers!

is that BT?

is their call centre in england?

[Asha D]

Just moved house and looking for a new broadband provider, anyone know the best deal out there? looking for unlimited usage aswell.

[LFCScouser]

Just moved house and looking for a new broadband provider, anyone know the best deal out there? looking for unlimited usage aswell.

Virgin 2 meg, then get a hacked modem and make it 20meg.   

[Degs]

I'll reiterate, never ever ever go with Tiscali.

[Asha D]

Virgin 2 meg, then get a hacked modem and make it 20meg.  

Got a bt phone line in so cant go with virgin or can you with a bt line?

[Asha D]

Looking at o2 broadband 16meg £15 anyone know what o2 are like?

[filopastry]

Looking at o2 broadband 16meg £15 anyone know what o2 are like?

Very good, O2/Be are the best in the market particularly for heavy users

[Asha D]

Very good, O2/Be are the best in the market particularly for heavy users

Sound nice one mate.

[SpenceUK1968]

Virgin XL -20Mb/sec...All phone calls, all telly (bar Sky Sports/Sky Movies) = £66 a month...and the broadband has broke down about 3 times in 10 years...I can't fault it. (The telly could be better, though).

[Ben S]

Don't forget the crippling STM...

[lloydiethe1st]

Very good, O2/Be are the best in the market particularly for heavy users

Just had a look at O2 and it looks good. Plus I'm a pay as you go customer so get the discount as well.

[Surprise me.]

Cant believe ive been with Tiscali for a few years, bunch of c*nts. Was looking at getting 02 but just noticed that Skys max package (16mb) comes without a fair usage policy. To good to be true or is it the real deal? I'm a very heavy user so this fair usage policy bollocks is a nightmare.

[lloydiethe1st]

Cant believe ive been with Tiscali for a few years, bunch of c*nts. Was looking at getting 02 but just noticed that Skys max package (16mb) comes without a fair usage policy. To good to be true or is it the real deal? I'm a very heavy user so this fair usage policy bollocks is a nightmare.

I was with Tiscali for too long as well and their definition of 'fair' wasn't similar to mine shall we say. Do you have to be with Sky to have their broadband?

[Craig S]

Cant believe ive been with Tiscali for a few years, bunch of c*nts. Was looking at getting 02 but just noticed that Skys max package (16mb) comes without a fair usage policy. To good to be true or is it the real deal? I'm a very heavy user so this fair usage policy bollocks is a nightmare.

Was on the gadget show, were they were asking ISPs why say unlimited if its not. SKY agreed with them and took the FUP off the max package after the interview with them. Think its the only major provider without one.

[Asha D]

Was on the gadget show, were they were asking ISPs why say unlimited if its not. SKY agreed with them and took the FUP off the max package after the interview with them. Think its the only major provider without one.

Yep thats true that had sky in my last house probably gonna go back to them they are making me wait a week to cancel my last package though before i can get another one

[AndoNagasaki]

Looking at o2 broadband 16meg £15 anyone know what o2 are like?

I'm with O2 and they are great.  Well, I say great, they give me broadband and I don't have any problems.

[filopastry]

Be have never enforced their FUP as far as I'm aware, I've probably got close to 200 gig of usage over the last month without a problem, I believe much the same applies to O2.

[Surprise me.]

I was with Tiscali for too long as well and their definition of 'fair' wasn't similar to mine shall we say. Do you have to be with Sky to have their broadband?

All explained here http://www.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/skyproducts/broadband/pricesandoptions/max

Be have never enforced their FUP as far as I'm aware, I've probably got close to 200 gig of usage over the last month without a problem, I believe much the same applies to O2.

Torn between getting 02 and Sky, guess its safer to go with Sky in case 02 start enforcing their FUP as they get an increase in customers. They seem very popular at the moment.

[Ben S]

If anything I'd say there is more chance of Sky adding a fair usage clause in and enforcing theirs.