dannymccann
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Location: Doddington, Lincolnshire
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Following on from Topshot's Virgin Media thread, ive been tasked with providing an ISP for me and my 2 mates in our house for july. Ive picked TalkTalk cos it has no set up costs, and includes line rental and broadband for £21 a month. For TV we arent bothered about Sky and if we feel like it will get a freeview box for a tenner off ebay. Can anyone else recommend a supplier?
Ideally i want no setup costs cos I know what im doing anyway, we will be living in a cable area so both options open, already have a router and need a decent limit or unlimited and as cheap as possible lol 
Cheers
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topshot_2k
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Pipex.co.uk
Max package insludes 8mb unlimited broadband and anytime calls. Need a Bt line though (total including BT line rental is £38.49 a month)
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dannymccann
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£40 a month is quite a lot considering wont actually get 8mb and the fact pipex monitor what u are doing (thats why my parents mvoed away from them, bandwith witholding or something like that)
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topshot_2k
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what do you mean monitor what you are doing? they have a fair use policy but ALL companies have this now.
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12vMatt
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dont get tiscali, theyre absolute load of wank
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dannymccann
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quote:
Originally posted by topshot_2k
what do you mean monitor what you are doing? they have a fair use policy but ALL companies have this now.
what i mean is, my dad does a bit of p2p and when we used to have their 2mb service we would be using it all day but never at full throttle, so they turned us down a bit, thinking to a max of 1mb, so we didnt do anything for a month or so and tried again and they had kept it at 1mb. no service schedules or anything, just lopped our connection in half
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John
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BT are now supposed to be very good.
The top package costs about 27 quid I think but worth a look.
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dannymccann
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i hda a look and all their packages were like 4gb limits and stuff, or was i looking in the wrong place? im quite an advanced pc user and helped my dad find his new isp, but he has plenty of money to spend a month on it.....
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topshot_2k
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link to that john? cheapest i found on their website was £37 for all calls and broadband
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dannymccann
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http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displayTopic.do?topicId=15764
Does that include line rental or do you NEED line rental for it? we wont be using the landline really, and u get 250 broadband minutes with it....
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John
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I wasn't including the line rental, sorry about that, probably will be at least 37 quid then.
I don't look at the line rental because I can't get cable and have to pay that whatever isp I go for.
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topshot_2k
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quote:
Originally posted by dannymccann
http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displayTopic.do?topicId=15764
Does that include line rental or do you NEED line rental for it? we wont be using the landline really, and u get 250 broadband minutes with it....
if its BT or ADSL then you still have to rent the line
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Cosmo
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UKOnline have always been good for me.
£20 for 8mb, £25 for 24mg IIRC.
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dannymccann
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this is the bugbear, the ludicrous £11 a month for line rental which we wont even use, we all have mobile contracts with minutes. How much does a cable line cost to activate or per month? Ill hve a looksee at UKOnline
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topshot_2k
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will have to pay for it to be installed, modem etc
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dannymccann
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have to say the BT offers look good. Tried ringing UKOnline, got put through to some indian with a broken headset so ive emailed them instead. First impressions not great lol  cant be worse than norwich union though....
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dna23
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BT do traffic shaping now though.
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dannymccann
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quote:
Originally posted by dna23
BT do traffic shaping now though.
Meh, bugger lol
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dna23
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drunkenfool always raves about one, can't remember which it is Nimrod IIRC. not sure on shaping .etc
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dna23
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This may help
http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs
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dannymccann
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BT - throttles non-HTTP traffic, funny how it doesnt say THAT anywhere on their website....
Ive been looking at reviews for every ISP under the fecking sun on the internet and its all hopeless....
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topshot_2k
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bulldog broadband?
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Nismo
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Nildram, Coming from someone who works in the industry they currently rate highly, good price , good service, good custoerm services, good support portal + online accounting and stats.
I would recommend them to anyone, have loads on here.
http://broadband.nildram.net/
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xcore
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pipex is balls TBH
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dna23
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Nidram  thats the one he's on about  i'm going on them next year in a student house!
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