Since we purchased a new pc for home our dial up service has slowed down to clockwork levels(over a period of time). We are thinking of getting broadband access but do not know which provider to use, we do not need superfast access but reliabilaty is important. Any suggestions apart from go forth and procreate would be helpfull.
On eclipse at the mo as it's only a one month contract. Pay £20/month for 512kb service, but they've just launched a cheaper, faster (2Mb/£14.99) service this month, which could suit fine as long as you're not downloading loads of movies.
I'm on virgin.net just changed my package to 512kpbs with a 3 gig download limit £17.99 was on unlimited downloads at £24.99 but as i don't download much it was a bit of a waste of money and there is no contract on virgin
What ever route you go down it is vitally important to get a good firewall in place, this could be one reason that your machine is slowing down, even better is the get a router with built in firewall including statefull packet inspection.
04-Dec-2004, 13:10 
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