Which ISP?

[moyesboy]

I've had enough of TOSSCALI or whoever owns them now.
I'm an ex customer of E7even who were very cheap and actually quite good but went bust and since then my account has been passed between various organisations getting gradually worse in speed until it ended up with tiscali who are now broke and I'm not sure which company is actually running them now.

The MAC is already applied for.

Who should i go with?

Rural Derbyshire, but opposite the exchange - theoretically 8Meg is possible (max) but my current measured speed varies between 2Meg and 300k. I'm not really expecting to get over 4Meg.
Currently Utube is not possible most of the evening. forget iplayer. Iplayer radio has to be on the dialup reduced bandwidth version most of the time to work during the evening.

I'm currently paying £20/month for 300k at peak times:ack2: I'm prepared to pay a bit more than that for a business connection if necessary to get a more consistent speed.

[anth.payne]

Unless you can get fibre optic, which you probably dont by the sound of it, i'd go with BT.

At the end of the day, all ISP's just rent their line space off BT. And when you require any support for line faults or connection issues, they have to raise a support call with BT wholesale.

Cut out the middle man and get BT

Plus, dont bother with business, the only thing you gain their is SLA's. (although arguably they do have a lower contention ratio - it aint worth it)

[Jamin_00]

If you can get it go with Virgin 20mb

Awesome speed and I normally get 1.7mb download at peak times :)

[JeromeF]

[quote=anth.payne;404239]

Cut out the middle man and get BT

)[/quote]

Not the case :)

Companys now have LLU, Local Loop Unbundling. They install their own equipment into BT exchanges, which you would connect to.

So it isn't really the case of cutting out the middle man.

I know for a fact in certain areas, Talk Talk, who are LLU'd, provide faster speeds on the same line and exchange of BT.


Tiscali have recently been bought out by Talk Talk, who are part of the Carphone Warehouse group.

[JeromeF]

More info [URL="http://www.top10-broadband.co.uk/guides/what_is_llu/"]here.[/URL]

I've Virgin lines, and have since the days of NTL/Telewest. Can't beat it...

But if you have to take an ADSL line, BeThere are the best.

[waveydavey]

[quote=JeromeF;404266]More info [URL="http://www.top10-broadband.co.uk/guides/what_is_llu/"]here.[/URL]

I've Virgin lines, and have since the days of NTL/Telewest. Can't beat it...

But if you have to take an ADSL line, BeThere are the best.[/quote]


I've had BE for around a year and yeah not bad. I have more problems inside the house than anything else. What would say is that BT are still responsible for the line that comes into the house from the exchange even though the company you use may have their own stuff in the exchange.

[Birdie4x4]

Have been with Virgin for years, sound to start with then got worse to the point of not being able to send or receive e-mails, no help at all only Gupter telling me to take my PC to PC world and have my Java re configured as it was corrupted, at this point I changed to BT have had one problem in the last 2 years which was put right within 24 hours.
BT for me, go on Gordon you know you want to!

[Jamin_00]

See it was the other way for me, no end of probs with BT thats why I changed :) Faultless so far with Virgin

[Birdie4x4]

[quote=Jamin_00;404288]See it was the other way for me, no end of probs with BT thats why I changed :) Faultless so far with Virgin[/quote]

I dont know your type of line, but we live in the outback up here no fancy cable only pigeons with mesages strapt to there legs.:smilielol5:

[Jamin_00]

LOL, I just on the outskrts off London

[Birdie4x4]

Blimey you must have all singing and dancing woolen fibre cables then!

[robgt]

I'm currently with Talk Talk as the package deal is good and there's no fibre in Shrewsbury.
If you can get fibre, do it.
If not, hunt around for the best of a bad lot (IMO) - [url=http://www.comparebroadband.co.uk/]Find The Best Broadband Deals in YOUR Area | comparebroadband.co.uk[/url]

They're all much of a muchness to be honest. My line can be temperamental at times, but generally it's ok.

I don't think any of them at this level of service will ever be 100%, unfortunately.

Cheers,
Rob

[Jamin_00]

I also had trouble with Sky :(

Like doing the okie cokie lol

[Downdraft]

Vigin DSL twisted pair here. 8meg connection that most of the time is around 2.5meg, It's as good as I can get and the ISP get it right most of the time:) (except for the odd password mix up :().

[Chris Hinds]

I'm with O2, village about 15 miles outside Glasgow and currently sitting at 4.6mb down/932kbs up. No problems and only about 3 dropped connections in 20 months. Generally very good service for £12.50/month I think. Only thing is you have to use their SMTP servers when sending mail.

Cheers

Chris