It is time for me to change. Orange have decided to put my broadband up by £5 a month so in search of a new provider.

Any recommendations? Any warning of who to stay the hell to stay away from?

 

Who's ya mobile phone provider? I'm with 02 and have just signed up with them at £7 odd a month!

 

Virgin Media All the way!

 

Listen to James, he talks sense!

Get 50MB, thats over 1 song a second

 

They Suck!!! Customer Service was so bad. I know how all my gear should be running. A fault was made on their side and the daft bint kept saying, Is your Router On??? Dropped them and went to Sky.

 

I had more problems with sky, virgin have been great, uptime is excellent, modem has been running strong for the several years we've been with them.


I'd rather not touch ADSL, I <3 cable

 

realistically how much of the download limit do people use?

iv looked at virgin but it seems like you have to get them for your landline aswell or maybe im reading it wrong hmm

 

Orange are shit. They did exactly the same to me as they did to you, so I cancelled and now use BT.

They are also shit, but not quite in the same league of shittyness as Orange.

They all make money in the most underhand ways, and are therefore all cunts. For e.g., my package is 100gb a month, but depending on how heavy a user you are, they slow you down. So even if I only use 20gb a month, if I want to use that all at once, they don't like it and slow me right down.

Utter tossers, and I can't wait until the day I have enough money to have some decent proper high speed broadband with a quality ISP.

 

We took out the media package. Had it canceled after 3 months of their bullshit.

Realistically, how much do you download?

 

oh iv just found the deal where you dont have to have a virgin landline but £20 a month for upto 10mb doesnt seem like a very good deal

 

You may have to have a phoneline, but if you can't get the cable from virgin media, only the ADSL don't bother and go with the cheapest ADSL provider, as they all use the same infrastructure, but some companies have download caps / traffic shaping

It all depends on how your using your internet, just trolling forums? or downloading all you can 24x7


If you are just casual, no heavy downloading then BT/Sky/other company will be OK, but virgin is one of the best, IMHO =]

 

i dont know how much i download? do you mean like music and stuff? or does it mean how much you use the internet? this confuses me

 

Literally download. Music, movies etc. How often?

 

couple of songs a month. so 10mb would do me?

 

Im with O2, £9 a month for 20Mb. Had it a year, not one problem, call centre is UK based etc. They will even try and support non-standard (ie - one they dont supply) routers. I realistically get 10.5Mb download and 3.5Mb upload so better than a lot. I am changing to Sky next month though, purely for the all in one package thing!

Pardeep - how are you finding Sky Broadband?

Chris

 

Plus.net have been great for me - real British people who know what they are talking about in customer service when you need them, and they have been entirely reliable for years now - it's me and my gear that have ever caused any problems.

Mention me and I get 50p off my bill every month that you stay connected with them too!

 

Music is ok, I'm talking if your downloading big things, like films, videos, games

If its just a few songs here and there you won't have to worry about reaching any caps put on your services

 

I say go with 02 in that case. Its more than you need

 

i cant find a deal as cheap as that with them. do you have your phone with them, is that why its so cheap?

 

ive never really had a problem with sky and its dirt cheap.