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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Petrarch of the VBB on December 20, 2002, 01:20:59 pm

Title: Comparison of Broadband Providers.
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on December 20, 2002, 01:20:59 pm

Anyone know of any comparisons of the UK broadband suppliers? I really can't be bothered searching the web sites of each and every one. I was thinking about Telewest,as we already get cable TV from them, but its £25 a month, which is a bit steep. There must be somesort of comparison table out there.
Thanks.

Title: Re: Comparison of Broadband Providers.
Post by: 01010 on December 20, 2002, 01:30:21 pm

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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Anyone know of any comparisons of the UK broadband suppliers? I really can't be bothered searching the web sites of each and every one. I was thinking about Telewest,as we already get cable TV from them, but its £25 a month, which is a bit steep. There must be somesort of comparison table out there.
Thanks.

Been on Blueyonder for two years and the service is faultless, they have superb tech support and the price is good for what you get, in fact, for an extra tenner a month you get 1m/b downstream connection (something like 150k/b per second). So definitely I'd recommend Blueyonder (Telewest)

Title: Comparison of Broadband Providers.
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on December 20, 2002, 01:36:30 pm

I can't afford it, thats what I said. Telewest is too expensive.

Title: Comparison of Broadband Providers.
Post by: Top Gun on December 20, 2002, 02:51:51 pm

NTL are supposed to be OK altough their technical support is so bad it should be considered non-existent.

Title: Comparison of Broadband Providers.
Post by: Carl on December 20, 2002, 03:09:03 pm

around here it's about $40 for broadband. i don't know what that translates to in whatever looser currency you're using, but if it's close do a dollar than 25 is pretty cheap.

Title: Comparison of Broadband Providers.
Post by: Zeronet on December 20, 2002, 03:11:27 pm

The Pound has more worth than the dollar :p

Most good deals are £30, below that, you either have to accept their cable TV deal etc or their service aint all that great.

Title: Comparison of Broadband Providers.
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 20, 2002, 06:44:52 pm

I'm talking to you via NTL broadband - 25 squids a month for 512k, and the tech support has been OK for me so far... to be honest, there isn't much to complain about :)

Title: Comparison of Broadband Providers.
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on December 21, 2002, 08:36:06 am

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Originally posted by Carl
whatever looser currency you're using

You, sir, are a fool!

LONG LIVE £STERLING!

Title: Comparison of Broadband Providers.
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 21, 2002, 12:45:02 pm

I suppose you voted Tory, then

Title: Comparison of Broadband Providers.
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on December 22, 2002, 07:05:50 am

Ermm, no. As I am 15, I didn't vote for anybody. But if I could, I wouldn't have voted anyway.

As the Somtaaw say in Cataclysm: "One ancient monster is as good as another."

Title: Comparison of Broadband Providers.
Post by: an0n on December 22, 2002, 08:29:59 am

I'd have voted BNP. If I'm gonna waste my vote. it might as well be in support of some extremist party in the hope that their increasing vote-count will scare Labour and the Tories to get off their asses.

Title: Comparison of Broadband Providers.
Post by: Fineus on December 22, 2002, 08:58:25 am

Check out Zen DSL - they've got great support and a constantly stable service (had two downtimes in at least four months - and they were due to them not recieving our payment on time).

Title: Comparison of Broadband Providers.
Post by: Ryx on December 22, 2002, 09:39:57 am

Maybe The Register (www.theregister.co.uk)'s ISP service could be of interest. :nervous:

Link (http://www.vcisp.net/) (http://w1.520.telia.com/~u52019065/smiley/theyareontome.gif)

Title: Oh dear, this is about to become a politics thread...
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 23, 2002, 11:35:54 am

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Originally posted by an0n
I'd have voted BNP

I'm assuming that you know the BNP are racists and that your post was a 'joke'

Title: Comparison of Broadband Providers.
Post by: wEvil on December 23, 2002, 07:29:07 pm

NTL suck, 'nuff said.

i've currently got the house 1mb line to myself and its still crap :(