Whos your Internet Provider?

[Biker1941]

Tiscali is 2.3mbps for £12.99/month ,however it does seem to self disconnect at busy times has anyone else noticed this?
rgds.
Clive

 

[helpimonfire]

We're with BT
8mb with a 40gb montly allowance (haven't even got close yet, i think last month i hit about 9gb or something)
dunno how much we're paying as it's with the VOIP phone and also goes in with the phone line. i think it's something like £30 a month with the line rental and all, but i can't be 100% sure

 

[FiatStiloJTD]

Tiscali is 2.3mbps for £12.99/month ,however it does seem to self disconnect at busy times has anyone else noticed this?
rgds.
Clive

I'm with tiscali. Never been cut off, although the modem is always on unless there is no activity within 30 minutes. Its slow for 2mb though...well ours is.

 

[Stu DemonD]

PlusNet

Nice referral link I may edit it

 

[dave]

Pretty cheap, and generally very good. Admittedly they have had some problems recently, but unlike most other companies they're quite open and honest about their problems and what they're doing to resolve them.



H

what problems? is this why the pc up the yard has been running slow uploading pics?

 

[Stu DemonD]

I haven't suffered any issues with them - look at my stats above.

 

[sammiboo]

Nice referral link I may edit it

Not in LL you wont

 

[hmallett]

what problems? is this why the pc up the yard has been running slow uploading pics?

Not speed problems, (as far as I know), but problems such as this and this.
H

 

[dave]

Not speed problems, (as far as I know), but problems such as this and this.
H

aww i blame stu

 

[websurferbill]

Im with eclipse it only cost about £15 per month and you get 8 meg with unlimited downloads if you want wireless they also give you a free rooter try them

 

[jug]

In their Terms and Conditions there is a statement about fair usage but I've never heard of it being enforced.

it isn't enforced by any supplier, even if you have a download limit they will never say or do anything if you go over. i've never heard of single case where an isp has done anything except in extreme cases when the user was suspected of downloading loads of pirate dvds (police have even been informed of this in the past).

 

[Stu DemonD]

I was with PLUS.net, and have got near their peak time limits in the past - they have always sent me an email to tell me that limits will be enforced if I continue, although I have never pushed it. I just schedule my bandwidth usage to offpeak times.

I am now on the 8Mb Demon Home service - no complaints so far.

 

[ArcticBeast]

twang.net
£30pm
unlimited account

excellent customer services not many people use then so very quick service and they dont block any ports or throttle bandwidth when trying to do certain things.

 

[centaur]

We're with BT
8mb with a 40gb montly allowance (haven't even got close yet, i think last month i hit about 9gb or something)
dunno how much we're paying as it's with the VOIP phone and also goes in with the phone line. i think it's something like £30 a month with the line rental and all, but i can't be 100% sure

Yeah I have the same, the BTHome hub and the Softphone is absolutely great. It means we have 2 separate phone lines to use: our normal land line, and the Broadband line. And it doesn't matter which number people ring as both phones will ring! I do get 7-7.5 MB 90% of the time as far as speed goes. I am paying £26.99 pm (Well I will do when the 6month promo finishes )

I must say that BT has given great service over the years we have had internet with them. And although they are more expensive than the rest (OFCOM are forcing them to not drop their prices at the moment in order to create market competition), they have given solid service and backup 24/7. In all the time I have had BT, we were left with no internet only the once for about 4 hours late one night, because someone crashed their car into some exchange hub box thing.

I would reccommend them over anyone else.

 

[Stu DemonD]

Friends of mine have the homehub system, plus a girl at work is about to get it - although for me, 40Gb pcm is way too restricting, although not sure how good they are at enforcing it.

 

[centaur]

I have exceeded this quite regularly for some time now, and they have yet to say anything. When I once asked the tech dept about this a while back, as I was worried, they say they rarely enforce it unless you exceed your monthly usage on a weekly basis. ie 40gb every week would not be accpetable. Then all they would initally do is write to you, or call you, toadvise you are using over the allowed limit, and if you do it regularly they will suggest alternatives to consider.

These past few months (6 or 7) I have been hovering around the 30-60gb per month mark, and no one from BT has said or done anything yet.

 

[serin]

well i regualarly go over my on peak limit (dunno how, i cant DL that much :chin: )

and all they do is stop me accessing p2p networks until the month is through

its odd, i had an even smaller limit with my old supplier, but i downloaded heaps more

also, since ive switched im having a heck of a prob with p2p, its running dead slow and has probs connecting even when im within my limit

 

[centaur]

I use limewire or ares (free), both are pretty good for different reasons.

 

[serin]

I use limewire or ares (free), both are pretty good for different reasons.

i use both and both are slow as hell

 

[Stu DemonD]

I had a few months when I was hitting 160Gb per month - oops....

So no BT for me