flak monkey
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| posted on 11/11/08 at 12:58 PM |
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ISPs again
Coming up to that time of year when the yearly ISP contract is coming to a close.
Currently with Eclipse who have been very good, and good value too (£14.99/month), but I do hit the download limit quite a lot recently (20GB).
Anyone got any recommendations for a unlimited ADSL provider?
Demon seem to get good reviews, and with a 50GB limit for £17.99 seems pretty good.
Any others worth considering?
David
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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mookaloid
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| posted on 11/11/08 at 01:09 PM |
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The gadget show - on unlimited ISP deals - said Zen was about the best but at £35 per month which is a bit steep.
I think they thought O2 Internet was a good deal but was subject to fair usage policy.
Cheers
mark
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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tegwin
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| posted on 11/11/08 at 01:10 PM |
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Im with Demon.... Have been for 3 years.... Had about 2 days down time in total... Very happy with them!
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trogdor
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| posted on 11/11/08 at 01:13 PM |
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another vote for demon, we use it for our business. very little problems with them and connection bandwidth is good
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Benzine
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| posted on 11/11/08 at 01:13 PM |
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demon pwn
The mental gymnastics a landlord will employ to justify immoral actions is clinically fascinating. Just because something is legal doesn't make
it moral.
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iank
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| posted on 11/11/08 at 01:17 PM |
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Happy with demon here, but they were in the process of being bought, no idea if it will cause problems.
Support have always been very good and they knew what they were talking about rather than following a flowchart.
Only time I had significant downtime (8 hours) was due to a fire in the equipment racks (saw the engines outside the exchange).
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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Pdlewis
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| posted on 11/11/08 at 01:17 PM |
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Tiscali £14.99 no limit been with them for 5 years no problems and i download a fair amount for work never have any line outages
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Updated 05/02/2009
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splitrivet
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| posted on 11/11/08 at 01:28 PM |
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If you go here http://www.samknows.com/broadband/search.php
and type in your telephone number it will show if your exchange is LLU'd and by whom. one of those would be the best provider.
I'm with eclipse their d/l speed is terrible Ive put it down to traffic shaping. Ive been a good lad and only downloaded out of busy periods
which the b@stards extended from 6 to 11 pm to 11am to 11pm, which Im sure is a breach of my original contract.
Unfortunately my exchange is non llu so our friends BT are no doubt robbing the bandwidth for BT Vision.
Cheers,
Bob
I used to be a Werewolf but I'm alright nowwoooooooooooooo
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britishtrident
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| posted on 11/11/08 at 01:40 PM |
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Currently we are on O2 on one line and Plusnet on the other.
Both cheap 100% reliable and fast and good sensible download limits --- the O2 line is on ADSL2*
Having been one of the original BT broadband customers we used Zen for a while (still pay for mail box with them as it is 100% reliable) found them
very good until we had problems when BT introduced variable rate ADSL and the connection kept getting slower and slower till it stopped working
altogether --- Zen would not call in a BT engineer to check the line , eventually it only got fixed when the voice side of the line also
died --- turned out to be bad card at the exchange. As we are so dependent on our web link we got a second BT line put in while waiting to get the
original line fixed and signed up that one with Plusnet.
Plusnet are now owned by BT but still run as an 100% independent unit.
On the original line we dumped Zen PDQ after that and went to Be --- who were then taken over by O2.
Both Plusnet and Be/O2 have been 100% reliable and offer very good VFM -- O2 have some good offers and supply a very decent router.
[Edited on 11/11/08 by britishtrident]
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coozer
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| posted on 11/11/08 at 01:58 PM |
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SKY here, 8mb and not been aware of any download limits despite going at 20gb one day.
£5 a month, although you need the telly off them..
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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stevebubs
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| posted on 11/11/08 at 05:49 PM |
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If Demon are still owned by Thus then expect them to change hands again soon following the CW takeover.
I've got Sky and had no issues.
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joneh
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| posted on 11/11/08 at 07:33 PM |
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No problems with Sky (£10 per month unlimited) I get 12mbit download here.
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 11/11/08 at 08:10 PM |
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If you can get it where you are then go cable (Virgin Media). I had ADSL with various ISP's for years, went to cable last year and haven't
looked back. It's more reliable than ADSL ever was, my speeds don't vary from day to day (and are faster, especially upload) and I'm
not constantly worrying about being throttled. As long as you schedule your downloads out of peak hours with Virgin you can pretty much get away with
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