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.

Virginmedia ?

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 :thumb:

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 sh!t and their `customer service` (if you can call it that) is disgusting!!!!! I would seriously do without if they were my only choice.

No cable here. Is their normal broadband any good?

Done. It says infinity is available?!? Wrong! BT back on now and hitting 8.2 meg. This is faster than they quoted us. If I changed and it was slower than this I'd be a bit narked.

Go back to them and find out if your using a different exchange to those 2 roads down? You'd be very unlucky to be on a different one but it also means you'd be on an exchange border and get the longest run so worse figures.

They say the exchange is done but the Cab that we use isn't. No intention of upgrading it either :-(

Yeah, that`s what I`ve got mate. Good customer service too and they understand our language too :thumb::thumb:

What speeds are you getting bud?

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).

Had lots of problems with orange in the last 6months going off every hour

Swapped to BT great service up to now

I`m in North Wales and in my area the max I can get is 2.5 - 3 meg. Plenty for me :D Very stable too.

We use to be with Orange and has no problems. BT were fine until a couple of months ago. I must of rang them 8 times....

go for ne1 other than talk talk they are sh1te!!!!!!!

BE broadband here - not one issue in 2.5 years and plenty of gaming had :)

Amen!

er.. :Suspiciou no

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.

Dave

Er..yes :hjtwofing

I'm on Zen here and very happy

All BT's 'competitors' run through BT's older, copper wire network so they will all be just as sh!te as each other speed wise.

Just a case of looking around for who has the best offers.
:)

?:freak3:

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.

They all use the BT line from the exchange, so will get the same issues with those as with BT.

BT are the best taking all things into account for unlimited Broadband, especially for gaming pings with DSL.

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.

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

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 :D

FWIW, parents changed over to Talk Talk ( :facepalm2: ) but so far, they've been very good. Good service and customer service...... time will tell though.

Dan

Another vote for Zen, top customer service. So BT put a new cab right outside my house but my phone line comes in on another pole which they are not going to upgrade :-(

If you use it for gaming I would avoid Virgin ADSL. Their cable is awesome though!!