Quote from: M3ta7h3advirgin cable... my god 20mbit its lush. £29 a month online price.

Cant get cable round here.

so basically, any BT Reseller.  What type of limts are you looking at?  Youll also not be able to get the cheap deal from TalkTalk if they haven;t unbundled the exchange.  Nice area of the world btw, though Whitby Goth Festival will likely do your head in

The goths arent too bad TBH. Theyre all friendly etc.

Oh right, wondered why I couldnt get the deal! Cant get the Sky one either, which must be the same reason I cant get talk talk.

Im wanting a 40Gb download limit, up to 8 meg, and be able to download stuff at decent speeds during the day. Was with Toucan at my mums place, and you couldnt seem to get any decent speed during the day. Oh, and as cheap as possible!!!!

Cheers

To be fair, i would probably use Demon then.  Their Customer Service is  notrriously crap, but their products are pretty good.

Quote from: Beakerso basically, any BT Reseller.  What type of limts are you looking at?  Youll also not be able to get the cheap deal from TalkTalk if they haven;t unbundled the exchange.  Nice area of the world btw, though Whitby Goth Festival will likely do your head in

ADSL ISPs are not all the same and they vary in quality and speed wildly.

Case in point, I use eclipse who give me unlimited downloads (subject to fair usage policy as ever). I always get great speeds and the connection is reliable.

My mate, who lives 3 doors down from me, went with Sky cos they were cheap. He has no end of connection problems and the reliability of the connection is appalling. Yes the distance from the exchange and the physical line itself do play a big part in the speed you will get... but if the ISP is running off 2 tin cans and a piece of string then youre in trouble.

My recommendations are Zen and Eclipse. Both have excellent customer service, good peerings to tier 1 ISPs and reliable connections.

Quote from: cornetADSL ISPs are not all the same and they vary in quality and speed wildly.

Case in point, I use eclipse who give me unlimited downloads (subject to fair usage policy as ever). I always get great speeds and the connection is reliable.

My mate, who lives 3 doors down from me, went with Sky cos they were cheap. He has no end of connection problems and the reliability of the connection is appalling. Yes the distance from the exchange and the physical line itself do play a big part in the speed you will get... but if the ISP is running off 2 tin cans and a piece of string then youre in trouble.

My recommendations are Zen and Eclipse. Both have excellent customer service, good peerings to tier 1 ISPs and reliable connections.

i know they vary wildly, ive tried one of the "Cheap" ISPs, and wasnt impressed, and the value hunters are always complaining about theirs.  I wouldnt use Sky because ive heard that once you are on them they couldnt give a sh*t.  I work for Geek Squad now, and IIRC we can get phone + 8Mb ADSL for £11 a month.  Ill stick with BT and Be though because they suit me better, despite the fact its 3 times the price.  

I recommend Demon because the place i used to work had customers on various ISPs, and we had less problems with Demon and with any other provider.  

Cheers for the recommendations, will check them out. Just in the process of trawling through the billion sites finding one.

Anyone heard of Fast4.net??
They seem good, adsl max up to 8meg, unlimited downloads, 1 month contract, no activation fee, £16/month.

Seems good!?

Ok, forget them!!! Faaaaaaaaaaar to many sh*tty reviews.

Im on Be.... and theyre awsome so far

(only been a few weeks tho)

started setting it up before the phone line was even in... download at 1900k upload at 240k... never had any lag, a single disconnect :-)

Quote from: knightyIm on Be.... and theyre awsome so far

(only been a few weeks tho)

started setting it up before the phone line was even in... download at 1900k upload at 240k... never had any lag, a single disconnect :-)

If youre going with Be I recommend calling them and getting them to check the line length between you and the exchange. Im only about 1.5km from the exchange but the local cabling is in such a mess that Ive got something like between 3 and 7 km of cable connecting me, and I only connect at 6.5 (early in the morning, drops to 4.5 late at night) and have disconnections twice a day at 6:30 and 11:30. Apparently Be are investigating the latter but its still something of a disappointment.

Cant get Be where I live.

Quote from: Chris HIf youre going with Be I recommend calling them and getting them to check the line length between you and the exchange. Im only about 1.5km from the exchange but the local cabling is in such a mess that Ive got something like between 3 and 7 km of cable connecting me, and I only connect at 6.5 (early in the morning, drops to 4.5 late at night) and have disconnections twice a day at 6:30 and 11:30. Apparently Be are investigating the latter but its still something of a disappointment.

lucky for me I can see the main exchange out of my front window !

Anyone been with Virgin (non cable). Just they do an up to 8 meg, unlimited package for £15 which is good.......

Most the reviews Ive read on the net though seem to slag Virgin off.....although, most reviews ive read about any ISP slags them all off........you dont seem to get any good reviews anywhere!!

Quote from: chrisdickoAnyone been with Virgin (non cable). Just they do an up to 8 meg, unlimited package for £15 which is good.......

Most the reviews Ive read on the net though seem to slag Virgin off.....although, most reviews ive read about any ISP slags them all off........you dont seem to get any good reviews anywhere!!

Virgin ADSL isnt very good.  One of my friends is on it, and she has nothing but problems, including her own website being null-routed for some reason.  According to Virgin they havent blocked the site, but the virgin network wont let her on it, it wont even send a ping back.  While shes pinging it, i can sit there and browse round it!   Also when she tries to ftp itll let her on, for abotu 30 seconds, then it cuts her out.  

Ok, Ill keep away from them then!

Dont know how accurate/good ispreview.co.uk is, but companies like Naims, ADSL24 seem to score quite high. But a lot of the reviews are quite old now. They only have a 1 month contract, but then they do have a connection fee of £47.