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Author Changing broadband provider
Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
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21st Sep 06 at 08:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Currently with Tiscali, the service goes down atleast once a week and its getting tiresome now, especially when Tiscali themselves usually insist the service is fine.

Can any companies beat what I currently have because I havn't found anything else the same:

2mb
Unlimited downloads
50mb web space

£17.99

Most have resrticted downloads.

Edit - Can't get above 2mb.

[Edited on 21-09-2006 by Marc]
Jambo
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Registered: 8th Sep 01
Location: Maidenhead, Drives: VXR Arctic
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21st Sep 06 at 09:02   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

dont get orange its wank
drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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21st Sep 06 at 09:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

how come you cant get above 2mbps? Thought every exchange (bar a few in the highlands etc) can get up to 8mbps now? Im with Nildram paying £25.99 a month for up to 8 meg (connected at 6.5mbps ) and its totally unrestricted apart from 50 gig allowance a month in peak rate, 100% unlimited offpeak.
James
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Registered: 1st Jun 02
Location: Surrey
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21st Sep 06 at 09:40   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Demon. £2 more though
drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
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21st Sep 06 at 09:48   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Comparison of Tiscali to demon and nildram
http://www.adslguide.org/isps/compare.asp?demon=ON&nildram=ON&tiscali=ON&cmp_action=Compare
James
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Registered: 1st Jun 02
Location: Surrey
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21st Sep 06 at 09:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

See - told you Demon were good
James
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Location: Surrey
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21st Sep 06 at 09:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Fucking hell Nildram is well exspensive.

Demon is £20 a month for unlimited 8mb.

Nildram is £25.99 for 8mb capped to 50gb
James
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Registered: 1st Jun 02
Location: Surrey
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21st Sep 06 at 09:54   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Ok it seems you have already told us that
drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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21st Sep 06 at 12:04   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

£20 for completely unlimited?! What sort of speeds do you get on torrents? I know Nildram dont use traffic shaping or anything which means i get 300kB/s+ on torrents which is where i get most of my stuff from. If its 100% unlimited then £20 is well good!
Dan B
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Registered: 25th Feb 01
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21st Sep 06 at 12:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

http://www.adslguide.org/isps/compare.asp?demon=ON&nildram=ON&tiscali=ON&zen=ON&cmp_action=Compare

Thought I'd add another contender in there, but they're not cheap!
drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
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21st Sep 06 at 12:14   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I was looking at zen too cos i heard so many good things about them, but i think they had a 50 gig a month limit like nildram, but with no unlimited offpeak hours, and we use more than 50 gig a month regularly
PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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21st Sep 06 at 13:59   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Marc, can you not get cable where you are??
Melville
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Registered: 4th Jun 03
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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21st Sep 06 at 14:04   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

[hijack]

Does anyone know of an ISP that gives better than 256/512 upload?

[/hijack]
Dan B
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Registered: 25th Feb 01
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21st Sep 06 at 14:08   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by Melville
[hijack]

Does anyone know of an ISP that gives better than 256/512 upload?

[/hijack]

You're likely looking at needing an OfficeDSL product, if you want an upstream higher than 512kbps......they tend to come with up to 832kbps upstream.

If it's a MaxDSL Office product, that is...

[Edited on 21-09-2006 by Dan B]
Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
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21st Sep 06 at 15:29   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by PaulW
Marc, can you not get cable where you are??


No. they got to the end of the road and ran out of money!
Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
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23rd Nov 06 at 11:49   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I can get up to 5mb now

Demon good then??
Dom
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Registered: 13th Sep 03
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23rd Nov 06 at 18:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Pipex would be worth looking at, top service!

as for traffic shaping, it's a bullache for some protocols, but for P2P (torrent especially) it can be solved encypting the headers - so i wouldn't worry about it, unless you're into using VOIP - as there having been many casing of ISPs giving priority of their VOIP services over 3rd party VOIP companies
liveseytowers
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Registered: 18th Apr 05
Location: Blackburn
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23rd Nov 06 at 18:57   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I've just changed from Pipex to BT so wouldnt recomend them. The actual broadband service is top notch, i've had it for two years and never noticed it go down once but their customer service is complete shite! With BT not, £26 a month and I got a free home hub with free off peak calls and I get a new 056 phone number so no more annoying calls from Indian mobile phone compaines
abdus
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Registered: 23rd Feb 06
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23rd Nov 06 at 19:01   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

NTL, i'm paying 17.99 for 4MB unlimited
Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
Location: Skoda Octavia Estate, Ford Puma
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23rd Nov 06 at 19:06   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Don't go with Orange is all i can say. It was down more than up Changed to BT which is spot on Not had to reset the router since i set it up about 6 weeks ago
Sam
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Registered: 24th Dec 99
Location: West Midlands
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23rd Nov 06 at 20:11   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I'm with Sky. £10/month for 16Mb broadband.

My first router blew up and Sky's customer service is non-existant/rude, however line speed etc. is good LOL!
Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
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4th Dec 06 at 09:06   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Gone with Demon - 5mb for £20 a month.

 
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