What ISP to go for.

[Graffix]

Ok my AOL contract is finishing very soon so ive decided i want to go to another ISP as ive heard all the news and stuff about them. Ive had a look at sam knows and i can get:

BT Wholesale ADSL
BT Wholesale ADSL Max
BT Wholesale SDSL
Bulldog LLU
Homechoice LLU
Telewest Cable

Whats the best out of them, i have a pretty heavy internet user and game quite often so i would need a fast speed.

Thanks a lot in advanced.


Tom

 

[tolien]

Doubt you'll want to pay SDSL prices for starters...

 

[Graffix]

nope not really looking into SDSL

 

[bbreezeuk]

Telewest hands down, i had it but moved house so had to go with AOL but the connection was solid and we never had a problem in the 2 years we had the service

 

[tolien]

BTw ADSL (including Max) has a choice of dozens of ISPs, with varying degrees of usefulness.
ADSLguide is your friend. Same applies to Bulldog/Homechoice, except you're stuck with them as ISP (and for Bulldog at least, your voice service too).

Cable's a totally different ball game, for one you don't have the same distance dependence. Stuck with one ISP though.

 

[Stellios]

Telewest would be my winner, my mates on 10mb and he seems to have minimal bother even when doing in excess of 200GB a month.

 

[ArmoVanBuuren]

Telewest for me 10gb uncapped, excellent service, never had any down time in a year

 

[Mercutio]

Another vote for telewest - shame I cant get them where i am considering moving house (only renting) to get in a telewest area again

Considering the deals they do with good cable tv packages they well worth a look.

 

[Deleted member 58846]

Telewest for me 10gb uncapped, excellent service, never had any down time in a year

10gb ? i wish i had that sort of speeds ! you mean 10mb ? lol

 

[Graffix]

oke i may have to look into telewest, seeing as my road was one of the first roads in london to be layed with the cables for them for adsl max it says i live like 1.7 km away from the exchange so what speeds should i apect for say a 8mb service?

 

[tolien]

Somewhere between nothing and 8Mbps. Distance is worthless, the straight line distance Samknows quotes even more so.

 

[Graffix]

well it says i should get 5.5mbps but i dunno oh well ive got about 2 months left so ill just make my decision near the end, thanks for all the help guys

 

[Beenom]

If you know your line stats (which can be gotten from your router)

A better guess of what you can get is this checker:

http://www.dslzoneuk.net/maxspeed.php

I think you should be able to get much more than 5.5mbps considering your distance. But it all depends on the exchange contention and also your line stats.