Jim Galbally

im talking companies like pipex, Demon etc. etc.

i want UNLIMITED bandwith. and a good quality of service.

minimum 256k upload speed (altho 512k would be nice if they can do it) and a minimum of 1mb download speed.

all the bits like free webspace, emails etc. etc. dont interest me at all...

altho a static IP Address would be nice

DanRSturbo

Telewest

Phil

iTrader: (1)

Telewest is awesome! I would give them 11 out of 10 they really are that good

Shame you can't have it being in an NTL area

GARETH T

whys ntl fucked you off mate? ntl have never let me down

Adrian

Eclipse.

Edited cause I saw the capping.

Poom

They are planning to cap EVERYBODY's download limits so I think this may be his problem?

Jim Galbally

telewest are a cable provider i want ADSL

ntl customer service failed to mention their 3gb a MONTH bandwith limit on the service they swapped me over to on thursday, and now theyre saying i can't move back so decided to loose the phone, tv, and broadband from them and go for a BT phone, Freeview telly, and decent ADSL subscriber.

works out cheaper too :P anyway i always wanted a decent adsl provider, the cable 128k upload limit SUX :P plus i can use a half decent wifi adsl router now too finding one to work with my NTL connection was proving to be a nightmare

Jim Galbally

at the moment im looking at pipex 1mb... it's 1024/256 £23.99 a month, and i know they provide a good reliable service. i WOULD use demon but their prices are $$$

Jim Galbally

cmon guys some of u must use proper providers

Dan_L

I use pipex mate, i am on there 512 service but getting upgraded to 1mb for free. I think its now 1mb for 23.44. I have never had one problem with them, there customer service always gets back to me promptly aswell.

Dan

Exeter J

Jim, I've just migrated to ukonline - not the cheapest (but I have my e-mail accounts with them also) at £24 for 512 but upgrading to 2mb next month at £29 with the option of 8mb in the future. All uncapped.

Paul

Tiscali have never let me down and there upgrading me to 1mb the end of this month for nowt

Hannah

yep tiscali for me too!!!

Matt

thats what im on jim, am getting more than 128kbps d/l too



been on their 512 service for 2 years, incredibly reliable

gearboxman

I'm on Wanadoo 1Mb for £17.99 per month. There is a download limit, but it's a lot higher than I'll ever see




Editted 'cos I is stupid

The Rapid 1

http://www.homechoice.co.uk/intro_hc.html

This might be worth a look to ya Jim, was interested myself but not in my area so check that first, guy on phone really helpfull and KNOWLEDGABLE (tis capped mind to 60gb a month how much u wanna download tho )

If not have a look on here

http://www.adslguide.org.uk/isps/sum...order=tco1024k

Im on Prodigy
Not bad had no real probs with em, sometimes find dont connect at full speed ie only 800kpbs, just log off and back on and all good


Steve

mattbibs

dirty perv matt!

Jim Galbally

60gb a month is still not enough for me i'm afraid

matt, 1mb is 128kbps

also you havent factored in compression, so your true line rate might be different


try this, download a 10mb zip file

now download a 10mb text file

notice how the text file downloads quicker

ok, i'm deffo swaying towards the pipex 1mb service at the moment. anyone know if it's a dynamic IP or static IP? as a static IP / hostname would be quite handy

Matt

i know 1mb is 128kbps and that figure tells me its higher nobby. in comparison i never got more than 60 on their 512 connection

static ip is optional at extra cost

POPEYE

whats the difference between static and dymanic?
and why one or the other

Matt

to mere mortals like us pops it dont matter for shit

POPEYE

you might be a mere mortal,BUT IM FUCKING SUPERMAN @ THE MO

Jim Galbally

ledgendry

frog

Jim,

Demon may be more expensive, but they have promised not to EVER cap downloads

Oh, and they are one of my customers too

petejk

TalkTalk 1mb unlimited broadband

£14.99 a month from any Carphone Warehouse store

Offer runs out at the end of march and it reverts to standard pricing

tonyk

Jim if you are doing more than 60gb a month which equates to at least 2gb a day. Thats a serious amount of downloading. What do you actually download if you dont mind me asking. You will probably need to go on to a business tariff if 60gb a month is not enough.

Jim Galbally

tony... bittorrent mate

since i come from the "old skool" internet lot (back when we had 2400bps modems!) i'm of the mindset that you can't "waste bandwith" i seem to have it programmed into my head that if i'm not always using my connection 100% then i'm not "GETTING MY MONEY'S WORTH" which is why i am ALWAYS downloading something, even if its something i dont even need/want i just cant stand to have that bandwith meter not showing full all the time also the PC stays on 24/7 so work that out... with 1mb broadband i will download about 10GIG a day... thats 300gig a month... so i dont think 60gb will cut it

realistically i never really download more than about 3gb a day... but thats still more than 60 a month

you can see why the 3gb a month cap i've got on this NTL connection is a bit uselsss

tonyk

You must have shit loads of bt then. I aint used it much since most the big sites got shutdown. Got a program called exeem thats works with the bt system but uses an gui like kazaa etc.. you used it?

Jim Galbally

no, keep meaning to try it.

to give you an idea of what i'm like... ive got 2x 350 CD cases here FULL (half with dvds) and i have 480gb of HDD space... and only 15gb free

tonyk

jesus christ jim, if they catch you for stealing copyright your fucked

The exeem program is ok, not that many on it at the moment. SOme say its got spyware but i didnt find anything runing the usual tasks.

EssexBoyRacer

Pops,

Dynamic IP is when you lease an IP address and that lease expires on a regular basis. Meaning u're IP address changes regularly.

Fixed IP is the opposite, you are assigned a single IP address and you keep that address forever basically - which means you can host services from your connection - Web sites, FTP etc...

I regulary connect to my home PC using remote desktop from work cause my IP address is always the same.

CraigN

uk online

£29.99 a month for 2mbps download 256 upload

no cap

they do a 8mb download one aswell if youve got £50 a month

alltho it does have a 500gb monthly cap

www.ukonline.com

Jim Galbally

was thinking about ukonline... but i think its got to be too good to be true... i wanna go with a proven reliable service, not some shonky crap one. and i never heard of UKO

ebr, ever thought of using a dynamic DNS service? like DNS2GO? you run a little TSR and it will update the DNS records with a hostname of your choosing every 10mins or so. that way if your PC changes ip address it still keeps the same hostname... very handy! thing is 99% of thse services are chargeble

mrviper

im intrested in this too because i can get up to 2mb in april

R4N SS

iTrader: (6)

this is what i have. altho i originally signed up for the 512k package over a year ago and am now being upgraded to 1mb free.

Never ever had a problem with their service and i ordered it on 23rd dec one night and had everything delivered by boxing day

EssexBoyRacer

Yeah I've looked into these before, but at the mo I dont need it. My IP address has only ever changed once in the entire time I've had my NTL broadband.

Jim Galbally

EBR, i think they use 24hr leases

EssexBoyRacer

But I think unless there's a need to, u just get renewed with the same IP address.

I've had my broadband for almost a year now, and its only changed the once.

Jim Galbally

ebr, have you ever had it switched off for more thn 24 hours?

and yes thats right the chances are you will get renewed the same

EssexBoyRacer

nope! my pc and cable modem are on 24/7.