Author Topic: Best Broadband? (UK)  (Read 1190 times)

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Offline aldo_14

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Right.... my local exchange is getting enabled at the end of this month, and I've even managed to convince my parents to chip in a bit - I'm just wondering if anyone here has advice of a good, reliable provider, for about 25 squid a month or less.  I'm,er, asking just to try and prevent a massive trawl through websites by asking the advice / experinece of you good people :)

 I'm really going to be using this for the obvious things - playing games, DL-ing crap off the net and file transfer (hopefully) between my home Pc and the uni file servers.

And, oh - AOL is out of the question :)

 

Offline Martinus

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[color=6ff00]Lazy bugger. ;)

Good call on AO-hell though they really have a sucky service. I've been using BT broadband (not openworld) and it's been frankly, excellent, no connection problems, no cutoffs...

They do have a one gig cap every 24hours but I've busted that on many occasions (REALLY busted it ;) ) and I haven't heard a word from them about it.
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Offline an0n

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NTL are dicks some of the time but they let you get away with pretty much anything.

I download about 3Gb of crap every day. Run FTP and HTTP servers off my comp even though it's against the T&C's and they don't care. There's no crappy ISP-Proxy conflicts when playing online games. And they use actual broadband cable and not just some crappy little £6 phone attatchment.

The downsides are they supply you with a largely linux-incompatible modem and they make you use their phone service too.

Basically, the benefits of BT and NTL are kinda dwarved when compared to the hastle of changing phone companies.

If you've got BT, get BT's ASDL thingy. If you've got NTL, get NTL's cable-modem thingy.
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Offline 01010

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Blueyonder, been on them three years, rock solid service, 1/mbps £30 a month. No cap on bandwidth either.
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Offline aldo_14

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Interesting :)

Incidentally, anyone looked at the www.blueyonder.com website?  Notice that on no point does it offer any way of contacting the owner regarding work, or indeed any way of viewing said work?

 

Offline Martinus

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[color=66ff00]They're all written in VTML - Vapour Text Markup Language. ;)
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Offline Petrarch of the VBB

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I was looking in The Internet Magazine at college the other day. It has a review of broadband ISPs, comparing them and so forth. I can't remember which it said was best, so if you could get it, you'd find it useful.

Other than that, Blueyonder. I've  with them, and I've no problems, other than my IP doesn't change as often as I'd like.

 

Offline Hunter

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Offline Fineus

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Originally posted by Hunt Smacker
http://www.zenadsl.com/pricing/pricing.asp


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