Which Broadband do you recommend?
09 December 2011, 04:09 PM
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Which Broadband do you recommend?
We can't get fibre optic (although Infinty is enabled 2 roads down which boils my blood) and Bt have been ****e for the last couple of months. Now their telling me no Broadband all weekend due to a line fault somewhere. Plusnet, Talk Talk, Sky? Any options guys?
Gaming mainly, don't download a great deal of stuff.
Gaming mainly, don't download a great deal of stuff.
09 December 2011, 05:05 PM
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http://www.samknows.com/broadband/broadband_checker
Do the phonenumber and postcode lookup then we can advise which is best of your options and will tell you dates for extra features been enabled on your cab
Do the phonenumber and postcode lookup then we can advise which is best of your options and will tell you dates for extra features been enabled on your cab
09 December 2011, 05:14 PM
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I`m more than happy with Virgin. Whoever you do pick, ffs don`t touch talktalk or whatever the bunch of b@stards are called now cos their service is **** and their `customer service` (if you can call it that) is disgusting!!!!! I would seriously do without if they were my only choice.
09 December 2011, 05:44 PM
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http://www.samknows.com/broadband/broadband_checker
Do the phonenumber and postcode lookup then we can advise which is best of your options and will tell you dates for extra features been enabled on your cab
Do the phonenumber and postcode lookup then we can advise which is best of your options and will tell you dates for extra features been enabled on your cab
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09 December 2011, 06:20 PM
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I was with Plusnet and was very happy with them - then my local exchange unbundled and I went with Sky for £7.50 a month - getting 16Mb download constant and no download limits. Very pleased - and doesn't seem to be any congestion (yet).
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09 December 2011, 11:24 PM
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Thing is, if there's a line fault then that would have knocked out whoever you has as provider as they would use the same bit of copper. They could use different kit in the exchange though but I've no idea how reliable 'xyz's kit is compared to BTs. Though it's probably the same kit anyway. And they all get Openreach to install/fix it.
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10 December 2011, 10:30 AM
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The "last mile" will always be BT kit, however congestion also depends on the ISP end and the bandwidth they have purchased. The oversubscribed ISP's will be slower than ones that aren't.
10 December 2011, 12:09 PM
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BT are the best taking all things into account for unlimited Broadband, especially for gaming pings with DSL.
10 December 2011, 10:27 PM
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Another +1 for Zen. Been with them 5 years now, never an outage.
The customer support on the two occasions I needed it were excellent, one fairly routine call having misplaced my record of my password, and the other rather more complex about the configuration of a Cisco router. UK call centre with staff who speak English.
One of the few providers that don't tie you to a contract.
The customer support on the two occasions I needed it were excellent, one fairly routine call having misplaced my record of my password, and the other rather more complex about the configuration of a Cisco router. UK call centre with staff who speak English.
One of the few providers that don't tie you to a contract.
11 December 2011, 08:13 AM
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BE there 
Very impresssed.. jut moved to an all in package ..inc international calls (free)
because we have allready passed 12 months due to out broadband account, we are now on a monthly basis for everything... all we pay now is £28 a month all calls and unlimited broadband
Mart
Very impresssed.. jut moved to an all in package ..inc international calls (free)
because we have allready passed 12 months due to out broadband account, we are now on a monthly basis for everything... all we pay now is £28 a month all calls and unlimited broadband
Mart
11 December 2011, 09:08 AM
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I'm on Vodafone at home. Been UBER-reliable for 3 or 4 yrs I've had it.
We live in Herefordshire (the broadband black-spot), so any broadband is great, but I'm getting 6.3meg download speeds (subject to fair usage, but I have been known to cane it and never had an issue)
Pretty happy, as we can only get basically ADSL (ADSL2 in May 2012 hopefully) - NO fibre-optic either, no Zen, nothing.
Our competitors are Sky, BT, Virgin (non-optic) and Talk Talk* - that's about it
FWIW, parents changed over to Talk Talk (
) but so far, they've been very good. Good service and customer service...... time will tell though.
Dan
We live in Herefordshire (the broadband black-spot), so any broadband is great, but I'm getting 6.3meg download speeds (subject to fair usage, but I have been known to cane it and never had an issue)
Pretty happy, as we can only get basically ADSL (ADSL2 in May 2012 hopefully) - NO fibre-optic either, no Zen, nothing.
Our competitors are Sky, BT, Virgin (non-optic) and Talk Talk* - that's about it
FWIW, parents changed over to Talk Talk (
) but so far, they've been very good. Good service and customer service...... time will tell though.Dan
