Broadband

[TCL]

+1, another vote for Be from me too.

£18 a month for 5Mb download speed (l live out in the sticks so am delighted with this speed). No download limits and no 12 month contracts. My Bebox has been absolutely fine, I think I've rebooted it maybe twice in about a year.

Only had one occasion to talk to tech support; when getting set up, wanted a static IP. They were polite, knowledgeable and efficient - 1st person I spoke to knew exactly what to do and just did it with no fuss. 1 call, 10 mins. Job done.

Highly highly recommened.

EDIT: £17.50, not £18.00 - forgot about the recent price drop due to VAT change. Also just checked my speed, now seems to be up over 7Mb

[kaiser78]

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...

[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.

[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.

[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.

[BoredBloke]

I'm with Sky and so far so good

[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

[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.

[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

[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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