Home Broadband suppliers - recommendations?
 

I'm looking to swap my BT Business Broadband line at home, but what else is out there?

I'm probably looking at a non-business service, although as I will use it for business, I'm looking to have as little restriction on hours/day and download limits as poss (due to work use).

As I'm used to having a 24hr/day service and no download limits, I'm not sure what's enough / too little?

The price for this unlimited service seems very high, (so I'm unlikely to use this) so what are you guys using and is it enough? What changes would you make?

Any experience of good/ bad suppliers would also be appreciated.

Thanks
Tim

[Edited on 2-1-2005 by Rattler]

I use NTL, don't know that much about it but its the bob basic package. cost £17 a month. and I can use it all the time.

Are there any download limits?

www.dialstart.net Been with since august,no probs,free modem and filters,£17.99 a month,no limits.

nope don't think so
only time things get timed out is when im connected to someone on BT

Tim,

I've been with eclipse since march 04, since then I've put it in my house, my customer site office and our main offices.

Never had any problems, and it's always worked. No limits at all.

Have a look at http://www.eclipsebroadband.com for them, and http://www.adslguide.org for others.

Cheers!

Scott

[Edited on 2-1-2005 by Scottch]

Tim,

I've been with Demon for the last 10 years - first dial-up and then Broadband and haven't had a problem with them in all that time.

It's funny how you see these suppliers come and go, and people moan about the service they get, but the oldest ones are usually still there because they get it right.

There's no limits on download at all, plus with a static IP you can run your own web server from a home machine if that tickles your fancy.

It's 24.99 per month - certainly not the cheapest but you do get full email, webspace, newsgroups, decent support and the like. I think it's also free self-install at the moment as well.

on AOL, find them to be great, never been kicked out I don't think and no limits, to my knowledge, £24.99 a month.

WeeJohnyB

Tim, I use plus.net at home and at work. Been very good and reliable, no problems at all. And if you do go with them you put me down as a referal :lol: ;)

Biscit.net. Had them at home for about 6 months, customer service is quite frankly unbelievable. If they can't take your call they ring you back - HONEST. No download limits and various packages. Can't rate them highly enough.

Am so impressed I'm moving my business to them when the current contract expires.

You can also look here for comparisons - www.adslguide.org.uk

PS: Unless you are well computer litterate, don't use AOL. You will NEVER get the software off your machine without re-formatting your hard drive. AOL is good for most users, but when you do get fed-up with it, and most do, it's a nightmare

I use AOL broadband with dial up so that Ican use the lap top in the kitchen while she that must be obeyed can use broadband in the office, cost £36 a month, just started to have problems with accessing broadband so beware!

Tim for a rich *******, your a tight git.:lol::lol::lol:

Why are you changing from BT?

I use BT home broadband. I use it for work and i download lots of large documents etc from connection to work vpn and have never encountered a limit.

Not certain how much it is, something like 23 quid a month, but its been totally reliable and its one of the only one's that work like us to use.

Not great customer service by all accounts, but not had any problems myself.

Hence being a rich ******* :lol:

Nice!!!

I wasn't asking what was the cheapest, I was asking what was the best ;)

Its the same reason that I ride a Ducati :lol:

Tim:ninja:

Coz they are a bunch of tw@'s - they can't just switch over the billing address of the one I have, but insist that I cancel that one and setup a new one and incur installation costs etc... so sod 'em - they'll lose the business.

No great shakes to them I know - but it feels like a moral victory to me.

Tim :ninja:

Tim,

Just been doing this search myself,

I look like going with Eclipse as Scott suggests.

Main reasons for me were:

a) In the poll sites that compare them they get consistantly good reviews

b) They have a service where you can 'beef' up your bandwith to a faster speed for however long you want just to download batches of data and the revert back to your normal bandwidth, paying only for the time you 'flexed' up your speed. Ideal for me.

And also, cos Virgin Net disconnected me without even contacting me cos my credit card they use for collecting my ISP fee had expired. Hence the absence of my avatar. Guess they erased my ftp area too. Tw@ts!!!! Wait till I see Branson down the pub....................

Regards, Guy

and by the way HNY to you and all.


[Edited on 3-1-2005 by Guido]

Plus net for me.Superb service,never lost a connection and you can swap between bandwiths monthly if you want.

Not on broadband at the moment, I am with wanadoo on the standard £14.99 a month for the snail service as I call it.
Have looked at a few services, a lot say "no download limit" but when you look into the deatails the down load speed is 216 or 512mps(?), the £17.99 from wanadoo has a limit but the download speed is 1k, so would the IT experts please clarify this for me, Thanks.

http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/time/broadb...nternet_access

Chris.:burn:

The only other thing I've just noticed is that I get voice and data with my BT setup - ie I cn use the phone and the internet at the same time - can this be done with all braodband services?

Thanks
Tim

Tim,

In my experience, yep, voice and data at the same time no probs ;)

Cheers!

Scott

Yeah Tim, that's just the norm with BB.

Try www.e7even.com

Yearly contract in advance. For a 512kbps works out at £15.00 pcm with no download limits.

Just been asked to renew, and was given a special offer price for six months at £7.50 pcm

No issues whatsoever over the past 12 months.