Reply to: Broadband

[KackAttack]

BT - £12.75 a month

[andyc2000]

I was with O2 before I moved to AOl.

Was with them for a year and never had any outages and their customer services was good.

Only issue I faced with O2 broadband was, whenever I received a call on my landline or made a call on the landline, broadband service would stop for a minute or so and then come back.

I'm not sure whether this is common with other broadband suppliers (other than AOL) as well. AOL does not seem to have that issue though.

Sounds like a dodgy splitter - bet you got some new ones with AOL...

All this BB comes from the same place - BT Wholesale (apart from the cable virgin stuff).

[interested]

Used to be with Zen for about 4 years, excellent service, never had a problem, no minimum contract. The only downside is they are a bit expensive compared to the rest of the market.

When I switched to becoming an O2 mobile phone customer the broadband package (£7.50 a month) was too good to ignore. I've been an O2 broadband customer for a year now and it's all good. No problems and I've never had to call customer services.

[Gravy Train]

If you have Sky TV, then the basic broadband package (which i haveand has never let me down in over 18 months, and came with a free router) is FREE!

Although, i only use it for surfing the net from home

[lilelvis2000]

With BeThere..Be Pro service. I get about 22Mpbs Down and 2.1Mbps Up..the exchange in only down the street from my office.

The usual gripe about equipment. The Thomson 585v7 is probably the worst router I have ever experienced.

I have bought a Vigor 2820n now and will be using that instead.

You need a BT line as always.

[Svalbaard]

Currently with Virgin until they implement Phorm (and to be fair they haven't categorically said that they will)... £30 per month for:

2Mb broadband.
Mobile phone.
Home telephone.

[VectraMan]

We don't even have Naked DSL in this country (i.e. ADSL without the phone), and again BT are probably behind that.

BT would say it's the phone service that pays for the maintenance of the wires in the ground. You could have naked DSL, but there'd have to be a premium on the broadband charge.

There's nothing wrong with ADSL, in fact it's an extremely good solution to the problem of how to provide a broadband service without digging up every street, and sending an engineer to every house in the country to install new cables.

[swamp]

Renaming Telewest (cable) to Virgin was very silly idea, IMO. Cable is generally much better than any ADSL offering, but Virgin have blurred their own unique selling point by merging their broadband offering with their ADSL service. Many people don't get Virgin because they just think they are another broadband provider, when in fact they offer a different (and much better) technology.

Anyway we should really be using WiMAX in UK towns and cities. Unfortunately the licences have disappeared in some holding company and there is no planned rollout. Why?! I suspect BT are behind this because most people are forced to have their crappy legacy landlines for £10.99 a month.

We don't even have Naked DSL in this country (i.e. ADSL without the phone), and again BT are probably behind that.

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[Manic]

BE is part of o2. Am with BE too, running 2.5 up and 17.5 down. Can get it to 21mb doen with some tweaks but can be a little unstable at that speed

[VectraMan]

Anything that is routed through BT copper wire sucks. Maximum speed I got was 1 meg.

Virgin is the way to go! I'm on 10 megs now. And I know its not optical all the way to my front door, but at least its a thick coaxial cable.

Largely academic for most of us as Virgin don't cover most of the country.

8Mb Zen ADSL here (BT copper wire - good for 16Mb according to the checker), for £25 pm and 20GB allowance. I can't say I understand the rush to save £10 per month and risk an inferior service. If it's cheap, corners are being cut somewhere.

[FarmerPalmer]

TalkTalk - Line rental, Broadband & all calls (excluding 0845 etc + mobiles)
£20.99 per month.

I did have problems a couple of months ago - but retuned my router settings and off it went again.

I'm getting 4.9Mbps Up and 0.7Mbps Down

[BoredBloke]

I'm with Sky and so far so good

[SantaClaus]

Anything that is routed through BT copper wire sucks. Maximum speed I got was 1 meg.

Virgin is the way to go! I'm on 10 megs now. And I know its not optical all the way to my front door, but at least its a thick coaxial cable.

[gingerjedi]

http://www.idnet.net/

Not the cheapest but they offer the best service in the country bar none, on the two occasions I've called them an English broadband techie answered within two rings.

Using this I've not found an ISP that beats them.

IMO service is far more important than price alone.

[adestor]

Whatever you do do NOT go with Tiscali. Worst company in the history of the universe.

Am currently with BT and happy to pay a couple of extra £s a month than transferring as the thought of transferring to another provider brings me out in cold sweats...

Yeah, me too but 1Mb download speed really stinks.