After a couple years of use I'm thinking of ditching my cable broadband, in favour of the cheaper ADSL broadband via BT.

I was wondering who's doing the best value packages at the moment?
Demon (a company I like) offer it for £24.99/month + £50 setup

Anyone beat that ?

Why would you go for ADSL over cable? Cable is a lot faster and cheaper, and a hell of a lot reliable (might just be my area!) [This is an honest question not a moan]

Andy

I'll give my Blueyonder cable connection 10/10 fast, reliable and only 25squid a month:D:D

Cable modem is slow ;) how about 6M down with 400k up ....for £99 p/m

http://www.bulldogdsl.com/residentia...Time/p6000.asp

Unfortunately it is only in London

Davz - How about popular and some people say fast ;) Nildram

£22.99 + £58.75 for install

http://www.getadsl.co.uk/services_home.htm

:eek:£99p/m:eek: bloody hell bit pricy for sufing SN:D

lol - Tim, Imagine the number of downloads you could do with 6Megs :D

If you had 6Megs it would be a game in itself to max out your bandwidth :D

768 KB/Sec download, 1.5Mb downloaded every 2 secs :o well, thats if you could find a web server than went that fast :D

[Edited by RoadrunnerV2 - 19/06/2003 20:00:23]

I've just signed up for Pipex, seems good value http://www.pipex.net/ and has positive feedback on the bbs.

Mike

Why ditch cable ?

1) Blueyonder's spam policy is abysmal - I get tons of the stuff, which I don't get with my other email accounts, and I don't even give out my blueyonder email addr to people.

2) Contention ratio is better for ADSL broadband
3) ADSL is cheaper than cable - £24.99 compared to £29.99

-DV

[Edited by DazV - 19/06/2003 20:17:42]

I agree with msp1. I've just had Pipex installed two weeks ago and its fantastic.

Craig.:D

Yes, and it's only at the evenings and weekends. The rest of the time it's 512 kbit/s :(

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/67/31299.html

You want an ISP with a 'spam policy'? :rolleyes: Best stick to AOL then. I'd rather that my mail wasn't arsed around with before I get to see it -- I can implement spam filtering at my end if necessary.

Contention ratio of most ADSL services is either 20:1 or 50:1. AFAIK neither Telewest nor NTL publish their contention ratios, but I suspect that it's governed by the number of people connected to the green box in your street. That's why I tell my neighbours that broadband is crap :D

Carl, I have 5 email accounts with various ISP's

The blueyonder one is by far the worst culprit for spam, so whatever the others are filtering, I'm grateful as I don't get any hassle from them.

And yes, from first hand experience, I do prefer DSL broadband to cable. I've fitted shared networks into a couple of friends systems and it offers better download speeds than my own blueyonder system.

Each to their own I suppose.

-DV

Surely the simplest thing is to buy a domain, then it's all under your control. Then you only accept mail to <someone>@<yourdomain.com> which puts everything under your control. Also means you can change ISP without changing e-mail address.

ok I've had DSL and I will never EVER go back to that pile of ****E I feel my blood boiling just thinking about it.[img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Downloads were a joke o yeh u got 60k/sec some of the time but 40% of the time <insert wrong sound effect from family fortunes> :( If you play games forget it... I've had better connections from dialup.. o yes sure you can get 30ms for a while but every so often MASSIVE packet loss.. So much downtime it wasn't even funny. Including that when I phoned to cancel my account I was told "I hadn't complained enough" even though they admitted they had had lots of problems.... ok I'm gona have to stop here before I punch something....

I know technically it should be superior but it simply wasn't. "The proof of the pudding is in the eating"

just my 2peneth

just signed up for virgin
25 quid with no connection charge
1 month contract as well.

they get good reviews on net

I have been with Pipex (hopeless at the time, may be ok now) and Nildram who have been superb from the word go.