Hi all,

Does any one have a recommendation for a board band provider unlimited downloads and through a BT line?

Blake

Onetel.
No problems in two years and technical backup is great, should you need it.
If you are happy with a 2Meg connection.
It's all I can get here. The joys of a rural existence.

4 years, no problems, good download speeds.
I dont use the telephone service from them.

NOT BT!!!!!

Skybroadband

They are rolling out their exchange upgrades this summer so alot of the uk will have a chance to go over to adsl2 on a LLU exchange if it's not available already for them.

Edit : Just checked the stockport exchange and sky have installed their LLU hardware so their MAX (16mb unlimited) package IS available to you

If you have a sky package (the £15 one will do) you can't get a better price for 16mb unlimited - £10 (realistic fair use policy of 350gig pm)

No traffic shaping or blocking of newsgroups or p2p

If your exchange is'nt enabled yet then you can go onto 8mb 'connect' with a 40gig limit for £5 a month until your exchange is upgraded and then they will switch you over (which is what i'm doing).
There IS traffic shaping for p2p on the 'connect' adsl1 package but you can overcome this with a torrent client with encryption (utorrent etc)

You also get free evening and weekend calls to 01 & 02 local and national numbers

I was paying £27 for 1mb broadband + £21 sky 6 mix package + £4 For onetel Unlimited evening and weeked calls = £52 pm

Now I get sky's 6 mix package, 8mb broadband and free evening and weekend calls for £26 pm

Concerning onetel they are now talktalk btw

And with sky amazingly enough I have always got through to a UK (admittedly scottish) customer Service person not an Indian Call Centre.

Availability checker HERE


Cheers

G

[Edited on 20/2/07 by Mr G]

No provider is truly unlimmited these days, it really is quite hard to exceed 4gb per moth unless you are downloading a lot of movies,

Plusnet
http://www.plus.net/residential/broadband/?resheader=broadbandtab

Be
https://www.bethere.co.uk/


Plusnet do a good deal for the £14.99 Broadband Plus account, 4gb peak useage plus up to 50gb unlimmited off peak useage.

-- blurb from Plusnet website ---
Get a great-value broadband experience that's perfect for web surfing and email.

Broadband Plus is not suitable for data-intensive applications such as file-sharing and large downloads. Broadband Plus is designed for 4GB usage at peak times (4pm - midnight) per month. If you think you need more than this, or you regularly use peer-to-peer, take a look at Broadband Premier or Broadband Pay As You Go.

During off-peak periods you get up to a possible 50GB per month on Broadband Plus.

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For £21.99 They also do a Broadband Premier package 20gb peak and unlimmited downloads midnight to 4pm


But if you want more speed have a look at Be who who provide ADSL2 Broadband which is twice as fast as ADSL Max over the same line length, but Be are not yet covering all exchanges so you have check availability.

hi,

Thanks for all the suggestions. While I don’t use p2p all that much at the moment I was planning on starting to use it a bit more also I listen to net radio almost continually.

also make all my phone calls with skipe

The sky package looks good however I watch almost no TV so seams a bit of a waste to go with sky TV

blake

[Edited on 20/2/07 by ceebmoj]

I use Plusnet unlimited use ADSL for £14.99/month (less 50p discount that I got for reccomending a friend).

Never had a problem in two years and download speed is exactly as advatised.

Address is www.plus.net

I wouldn't recommend Orange, the tech support is cr*p

Thanks god for unlimited downloads with bt business, DL'd 7 gigs already today

Pipex.

ADSL4Less are very good. Were with them for 2 years while in rented accom.

Connection never dropped out, and it was truely unlimited, we regularly had between 25 and 40Gb of downloads per month, with no issues.

http://adsl4less.com/

David

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No provider is truly unlimmited these days, it really is quite hard to exceed 4gb per moth unless you are downloading a lot of movies,

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I can't believe people are actually recommending PlusNet, i'd rather slide naked down a lemon-juice soaked nail-studded bannister than go back to PlusNet. Their 'unlimited' products are anything but, expect constant 'amendments' to the terms of your contract with little or (more usually) no notice, woefully slow speeds if you even dare *think* about using p2p, and god help you if you ever need to get in contact with them - customer service is not one of their strong points (I don't actually think they have a strong point, but CS is right down near the bottom anyhoo). If you want a bit of a laugh go to the support forums on the PlusNet portal, it's generally a warzone

Sky sounds good but they had biiiiig issues actually provisioning people when I tried to order, after two months of me phoning up once a week to find out why my line still hadn't been provisioned and why they hadn't bothered contacting me to let me know about the latest problem that generally cropped up a day after my last call, I gave up, had a big shouty fit down the phone and told them to cancel it all and generally f*ck off. Next day the router turned up and the adsl magically came on, by which time i'd already cancelled the phone line with BT. Joy.

The days of unlimited adsl are ending/gone, the increasing use of bandwidth hungry services like VOIP, streaming audio/video and p2p mean gone are the days when ISPs could afford to subsidise the few heavy downloaders with the spare capacity from the 'average' customer. There are the odd couple of ISP's hanging in there for now but it won't last, fair usage policies are just the start, unless significant expansions and cost reductions can be made in the core networks then at this rate many ISP's may end up moving towards PAYG for data transfer.

Plusnet did go through a very bad patch but major changes have been made and they have made month on month improvements over the last year. How things will go now that BT has bought over them is another issue.
Plusnet kept me fully updated durring the migration process and I have found give the user more control over the connection, firewalling, spam filtering and other features than anyother ISP I have been with. Also unlike some ISP they don't have hidden charges for mailboxes, webspace or a static ip.

Having been with few ISPs both PTNS and ADSL including the highly regarded Zen who were great untill I asked for help regarding major speed issues after upgrading ADSLmax when they made a very reluctant poor effort at technical support, I rate Plusnet pretty highly.

The Be ADSL2 connection on my other line is also working impressively returning the high connection speeds expected. Only downside they don't include a mailbox in the basic (but low cost) account.

Oh the features are great, I do miss having the free static IP and the CGI enabled webspace, but just wait til it starts going wrong. I may be cynical but i'd wager their communication was only great because getting your money depended on it, it'll dry up now you have a contract.

FWIW I was really pleased with them for a couple of years, it's all gravy until they f*ck something up and then you have to try and wheedle it out of them. I left them because they 'upgraded' me from my rock solid totally reliable 2MB connection onto the Tiscali LLU, from that day onwards I couldn't keep sync with the exchange for more than an hour. I never got an email telling me about the ISPs plans to rollout LLU, I never got told about the opt-out for those who didn't want to be guinea pigs, I never got told I was one of the lucky ones going to be moved, I never got told it had been actually done until I started looking into why my connection had suddenly got pants. Then it was 'not possible' to put me back on my old normal 2meg This all came about a month after they made changes to Ellacoya that meant I was running at literally dialup speed for a good two weeks, during which PlusNet were totally unhelpful, initially blaming a huge section of their customers for simultaneously having the same problem, and never actually openly admitting fault, even after the event. Communication and customer service are totally alien concepts it appears. I don't know where these month on month improvements you mention came from, I only left at xmas and it was only going one way, downhill.

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'upgraded' me from my rock solid totally reliable 2MB connection

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