ceebmoj
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 09:02 AM |
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broard band provider
Hi all,
Does any one have a recommendation for a board band provider unlimited downloads and through a BT line?
Blake
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Confused but excited.
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 09:11 AM |
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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. 
Tell them about the bent treacle edges!
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awinter
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 09:16 AM |
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Pipex
4 years, no problems, good download speeds.
I dont use the telephone service from them.
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donut
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 09:56 AM |
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NOT BT!!!!!
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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Mr G
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 10:55 AM |
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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]
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a
car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes
and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 11:49 AM |
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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,
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.
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ceebmoj
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 12:25 PM |
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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]
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John.Taylor
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 12:30 PM |
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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
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trikerneil
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 12:48 PM |
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I wouldn't recommend Orange, the tech support is cr*p
ACE Cafe - Just say No.
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Pezza
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 02:33 PM |
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Thanks god for unlimited downloads with bt business, DL'd 7 gigs already today
You couldn't pwn your way out of a wet paper bag, with "PWN ME!!" written on it, from the "pwned take-away" which originally contained one
portion of chicken tikka pwnsala and the obligatory free pwnpadom.
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Avoneer
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 06:04 PM |
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Pipex.
No trees were killed in the sending of this message.
However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
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flak monkey
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 06:08 PM |
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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
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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SeaBass
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 06:48 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
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,
Sorry, can't agree with you there... My pipex is adverstised as unlimited and certainly during my extensive use it is unlimited!!
I download various files and archives some which extend to 3Gb each... All legally for work purposes of course...
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 10:20 PM |
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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.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 21/2/07 at 12:27 PM |
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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.
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 21/2/07 at 04:22 PM |
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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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britishtrident
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| posted on 21/2/07 at 09:00 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by martyn_
'upgraded' me from my rock solid totally reliable 2MB connection
snip
I had a not disimilar experience with Zen at the start of 8meg ADSL Max. I was on 512 upgraded to 8Max whle waiting for my exchange to be enabled they
put me on 2meg which was fine then when upgraded to 8meg my connection speed fell to sometimes to below 56k ! I was paying big money to Zen so I
expected them to jump to on BT's neck but it took 3 weeks and recorded delivery letters to the CEO get them to do anything, even then not a
word of a refund.
Went to Zetnet for a while because they were the only provider offering a fixed speed service, but although Zetnet are a nice bunch of guys they
weren't up to the competition in todays world.
[Edited on 21/2/07 by britishtrident]
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