Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
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Tiscali - Would go down for long lengths of time, once for 2 weeks after they said it would be down for 2 days, and they insisted the service was fine until I asked to speak to someone else.
Demon - Again the service would go down for hours, sometimes days. Would always disconnect at 5.
Toucan - Found out afterwards they were part of Tiscal  Was super fast and problem free for a few days and then the 5pm downtime came, it randomly disconnects through out the night, pisses off my mates when we speak on MSN! Sometimes it would disconnect every few minutes but would then reconnect without problem, would always need connecting when going online too.
Now been with Sky since Thursday and I havn't had to reconnect once 
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bubble
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Registered: 24th Jan 04
Location: Darwin, NT Australia.
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just goes to show that BT are the best then!
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MarkM
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Registered: 11th Apr 01
Location: Liverpool
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Welcome to the club. I am waiting for my BB to be switched to SKY.
Only switched to the 2MB Base package for now as I was on 8MB with BT and never got over 2.7 ish MB. Must not be close enough to the exchange. Connection wise BT never dropped apart from a couple of occasions but their customer service is a fucking nightmare. If you need to ring them your fucked.
[Edited on 17-01-2009 by MarkM]
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Tiesto
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
Location: Hinckley, Leicestershire
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Had Sky BB for 2 years and never had any trouble. No disconnects.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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quote:
Originally posted by bubblevaux
just goes to show that BT are the best then!
How?
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bubble
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Registered: 24th Jan 04
Location: Darwin, NT Australia.
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quote:
Originally posted by John
quote:
Originally posted by bubblevaux
just goes to show that BT are the best then!
How?
sky, vodafone, and many others just rent lines from BT. sky use bt's wholesale lines and billing systems, and tbh its actually pretty good.
bt consumer is pants-wholesale are good.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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Sky only use BT equipment if the exchange isn't LLU.
If it is LLU the only bit of BT equipment they use is the twisted pairs.
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mwg
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Registered: 19th Feb 04
Location: South Lakes
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We are with Orange by default as they bought Wanadoo out who we were originally with. Its never let us down but we still want to change cos we can get a much faster speed with others for a similar price
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bubble
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Registered: 24th Jan 04
Location: Darwin, NT Australia.
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Sky only use BT equipment if the exchange isn't LLU.
If it is LLU the only bit of BT equipment they use is the twisted pairs.
over my head lol, but still Sky broadband is fair decent!
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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If it's one of the cheap or free options it's not BT, if it's the one you have to pay near £20 for it is BT.
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bubble
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Registered: 24th Jan 04
Location: Darwin, NT Australia.
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quote:
Originally posted by John
If it's one of the cheap or free options it's not BT, if it's the one you have to pay near £20 for it is BT.
the vodafone one is done through bt at £24 iirc, and thats decent as well (apart from the pooey modems)
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N3CRO
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Registered: 12th Apr 07
Location: Sandy, Bedfordshire
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quote:
Originally posted by bubblevaux
just goes to show that BT are the best then!
 Yeah right!
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N3CRO
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Registered: 12th Apr 07
Location: Sandy, Bedfordshire
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quote:
Originally posted by Matty G
We are with Orange by default as they bought Wanadoo out who we were originally with. Its never let us down but we still want to change cos we can get a much faster speed with others for a similar price
I used to be on Wanadoo, started having problems as soon as they changed their name from Freeserve, kinda weird but meh.
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