Best (UK) ISP?

2008-02-28 12:07:36

#1

Dauntless: Admin; +2,249|6743|London

I am currently with Sky broadband, who were absolutely terrible at first (Constant packet loss, always loosing connection and their support team were about as useful as asking some bum on the street what to do). I wanted to change ISP as soon as possible, but I was still within the 12 month minimum contract. But after a few months those problems went away (apart from the useless support team), so I decided to stay with them. But now it seems they have decided to reduce my speed from 1.5MBps to 800KBps.

Edit: I've since found out that the speed was apparently lowered to 800 because the earthquake hit them pretty bad. But I still want to change to another provider

I am on the 16Mb package and I download at 1.5MBps (from newsgroups), so the new ISP must be at least that speed or higher.

Which ISP do you guys recommend?

Last edited by Dauntless (2008-03-03 09:56:16)

2008-02-28 12:11:17

#2

Zimmer: Un Moderador; +1,688|6757|Scotland

Did that just happen these last 2 days?

2008-02-28 12:11:23

#3

teek22: Add "teek22" on your PS3 fools!; +133|6382|Bromley, London

I had Virgin Cable.... they where good a reliable but expensive, however there tech support costs you a lot of money, you need to phone a 0906 number to talk to them. They said I should get 4Mbs, I got 3.99 something over wireless so that was pretty win.

Now I am with talk talk..free but well I just get over 1Mbs now.

2008-02-28 12:11:52

#4

HaawwK: Member; +31|5986|Bolton

iv no idea whats the best, (maybe BeThere) but whatever you do DONT get virgin media...

2008-02-28 12:25:35

#5

teek22: Add "teek22" on your PS3 fools!; +133|6382|Bromley, London

HaawwK wrote:
iv no idea whats the best, (maybe BeThere) but whatever you do DONT get virgin media...

hmm I think there main problems are with ADSL internet.

Their internet that comes via cable isn't that bad.

BT?

2008-02-28 12:27:13

#6

kylef: Gone; +1,352|6494|N. Ireland

Rule out BT Telecommunications too. Nothing but trouble - especially on the subject of newsgroups / rapidshare / similar.

2008-02-28 12:39:46

#7

Dauntless: Admin; +2,249|6743|London

Zimmer wrote:
Did that just happen these last 2 days?

Yeah, did you get the same thing? It happend either yesterday or today.

Last edited by Dauntless (2008-02-28 12:40:19)

2008-02-28 12:42:44

#8

ghettoperson: Member; +1,943|6650

Hmmm, I'm looking into this too for next year. Virgin seem to have some good deals, but I shouldn't get them?

2008-02-28 12:42:48

#9

0akleaves: Member; +183|6615|Newcastle UK

HaawwK wrote:
iv no idea whats the best, (maybe BeThere) but whatever you do DONT get virgin media...

hope so im in the middle of a switch over 2 them.

You have to learn the rules of the game and then you have to play better than anyone else.

2008-02-28 16:32:13

#10

B1GBUD: Member; +17|6597|Under an Artillery Shell

I have 20Mb Virgin Cable into a Draytek 2910. VPN and Remote Desktop via dyndns has never failed me.

Highly recommended

2008-02-29 12:28:52

#11

=Karma-Kills=: "Don't post while intoxicated."; +356|6585|England

Any Entanet reseller or BE if you can get it.

2008-02-29 12:36:28

#12

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6583|SE London

I'm with Be. They're very good.

2008-02-29 14:24:04

#13

Dauntless: Admin; +2,249|6743|London

Bertster7 wrote:
I'm with Be. They're very good.

What package do you have and what's your max download speed?

2008-02-29 14:29:27

#14

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6583|SE London

Dauntless wrote:
Bertster7 wrote:
I'm with Be. They're very good.
What package do you have and what's your max download speed?

Can't remember what the package is called, it's 24Mb unlimited and I pay £24/month.

Max download speed? What do you mean? What sort of download? Highest total bandwidth throughput I've noticed has been about 15Mb/s.

2008-02-29 15:17:41

#15

Noobeater: Northern numpty; +194|6448|Boulder, CO

I'm with virgin and since last july i've had incredibly crappy ping (400+ permanently) and for several months i had truly aweful download speed which is still pretty bad, after a 4 hour session of repeated discussions with them online where their agents repeatedly just ignored me half way through a conversation and never talked to me again they told me that it did not count as faulty and effectivly told me to sod off.

I plan to go to be as soon as I can persuade the parents to swap it as they just cba.

2008-03-01 05:04:01

#16

bullit: Tank Troll; +71|6690|London, UK

anyone know if orange 8meg is good I am thinking of changing from my AOL 2meg cause I think my modem isnt working properly lol and their charging to much.....

http://bf3s.com/player/175948227

2008-03-01 05:11:05

#17

hurricane2oo5: Do One Ya Mug !!!; +176|6765|mansfield

Im with Virgin, we pay 20 quid a month for unlimited 10 meg Broadband. Ive never had any problems

2008-03-01 05:15:22

#18

naightknifar: Served and Out; +642|6562|Southampton, UK

hurricane2oo5 wrote:
Im with Virgin, we pay 20 quid a month for unlimited 10 meg Broadband. Ive never had any problems

4Meg and they seem pretty good.

2008-03-01 05:40:42

#19

AnaalDuck: Lfc Are Crap; +14|6479|Liverpool, England

www.plus.net

Superb Connection,UK support.

2008-03-01 05:42:45

#20

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|6767|Cambridge (UK)

BT

Never had a problem with them that wasn't sorted out very quickly (and then it was only the one time just after we got upgraded to 8mb).

2008-03-01 17:06:07

#21

sinnik: Member; +16|5999|@defamations pad taking notes.

I'd recommend finding out how close you are to your exchange - If it's close by then any ISP would be o.k (I live less than 10 mins walk away and get about 6Mbits on average) If the exchange is quite far away then go for someone like Be or virgin as I'm pretty sure they both use cable so you get a lot less degradation and faster speeds.
To give you an idea me and two friends use the cheap Orange service that comes with our mobile contracts. One mate lives about 10 mins further from the exchange and he gets about 0.5-1 Mbit less than me and the other friend live quite far away from his exchange and only gets about 2Mbits so the distance does make a huge difference.

@ Bullit - we are all on that 8Meg package with orange - They're OK but be prepared to spend quite a bit of time on phone to REALLY sucky foreign support team to get the best from them. I had to complain about 6 times about low speed (1.5 - 4 Mbit) before they got their finger out and got things sorted..

2008-03-02 07:06:41

#22

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6583|SE London

sinnik wrote:
I'd recommend finding out how close you are to your exchange - If it's close by then any ISP would be o.k (I live less than 10 mins walk away and get about 6Mbits on average) If the exchange is quite far away then go for someone like Be or virgin as I'm pretty sure they both use cable so you get a lot less degradation and faster speeds.
To give you an idea me and two friends use the cheap Orange service that comes with our mobile contracts. One mate lives about 10 mins further from the exchange and he gets about 0.5-1 Mbit less than me and the other friend live quite far away from his exchange and only gets about 2Mbits so the distance does make a huge difference.

@ Bullit - we are all on that 8Meg package with orange - They're OK but be prepared to spend quite a bit of time on phone to REALLY sucky foreign support team to get the best from them. I had to complain about 6 times about low speed (1.5 - 4 Mbit) before they got their finger out and got things sorted..

Mostly untrue.

2008-03-02 10:31:30

#23

Shadow893: lel; +75|6693|England

I have 2meg with virgin and my pings with british servers can be as low as 10, so i'm pretty happy with them. download speeds are about 200 on average. why would you say not to go with them?

Bertster7 wrote:
sinnik wrote:
I'd recommend finding out how close you are to your exchange - If it's close by then any ISP would be o.k (I live less than 10 mins walk away and get about 6Mbits on average) If the exchange is quite far away then go for someone like Be or virgin as I'm pretty sure they both use cable so you get a lot less degradation and faster speeds.
To give you an idea me and two friends use the cheap Orange service that comes with our mobile contracts. One mate lives about 10 mins further from the exchange and he gets about 0.5-1 Mbit less than me and the other friend live quite far away from his exchange and only gets about 2Mbits so the distance does make a huge difference.

@ Bullit - we are all on that 8Meg package with orange - They're OK but be prepared to spend quite a bit of time on phone to REALLY sucky foreign support team to get the best from them. I had to complain about 6 times about low speed (1.5 - 4 Mbit) before they got their finger out and got things sorted..
Mostlytrue.

fixed4u

Last edited by Shadow893 (2008-03-02 10:32:15)

2008-03-02 10:52:30

#24

KylieTastic: Games, Girls, Guinness; +85|6453|Cambridge, UK

naightknifar wrote:
hurricane2oo5 wrote:
Im with Virgin, we pay 20 quid a month for unlimited 10 meg Broadband. Ive never had any problems
4Meg and they seem pretty good.

Same and free upgrade from 4 to 10 coming soon to all - and cuz its not ADSL that will be 10 rather than 'up to 10' = 1 ish

(but note: Virgin Cable is good, Virgin ADSL is uber crap)

2008-03-02 10:56:20

#25

robcr9: Member; +111|5982

for BE , is there a way to check what speed you would actually get?

i would like to know, cos im planning to migrate to BE in june

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