Broadband

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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).

[KackAttack]

BT - £12.75 a month