Advice needed for ISP swap

instinct · 20 Oct 2007 at 17:13

I've been with Nildram for a fair few years now, pretty much since broadband became available in this area.
Back in the day Nildram were a rather decent broadband provider, unfortunately these days their service is somewhat of a letdown, their customer service is shocking and the £26pcm is no longer justifiable under these terms.

So I'm looking to change and unfortunately do not have cable in the area.

Ideally, I'm now after a bundle (pretty much just covering broadband and the line rental) but am a little unsure of who to go with, the well-advertised choices of Virgin and Orange both receive shocking customer reviews and I have yet to find a review of the new Post Office service.

Does anyone have a provider that they could recommend, who offers both broadband and line rental? Or any suggestions on who to avoid with a 90 ft stick?

I've had a read through previous forum posts but so far haven't found a recommended service for this, and so any suggestions at all would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

daveyp · 20 Oct 2007 at 17:27

If you are looking at ADSL then the only one's that i would reccomend are TITANADSL - AQUISS - ADSL24 - UKFSN.
The above resell Entanet broadband and are regarded as the some of the best providers out there.
See here http://www.ispreview.co.uk/review/top10.php

Hope that helps.

tolien · 20 Oct 2007 at 21:19

I'd avoid Titan like the plague, given their propensity to spam forums with advertising for themselves.

ste_bla · 20 Oct 2007 at 22:05

ukfsn £19.99 30 gb peak 300 gb off peak low latency (20ms to bbc for next door)

if it turns out to be no good its only a one month minuim contract with no extra fees (as long as you get a mac code to join)

instinct · 20 Oct 2007 at 23:20

Thanks for the input all =) Thanks to the links provided I've been able to find - http://www.vispa.com

This sort of has the ideal package for me in terms of the combination of line rental, calls and broadband. Has anyone had any experience with these?

wij · 20 Oct 2007 at 23:31

Their DSL Zone page if you're interested:

http://www.dslzoneuk.net/isp_details.php?isp=22

daveyp · 21 Oct 2007 at 03:28

tolien said:
I'd avoid Titan like the plague, given their propensity to spam forums with advertising for themselves.

I looked at them but decided to go with another enta reseller due to them being fairly new, however i think all isp's plague forums in way or another, although i havent seen much of Titan being advertised recently apart from me which i tend to give all the popular enta resellers a chance.
So no fav reseller being mentioned from me in particualr. Keep it neutral.

I remember when i started my accountancy firm we did a little bit advertising on some forums which helped us get us on our feet, although i am not saying it is right! But we all have to start some where.

Trifid · 21 Oct 2007 at 10:07

tolien said:
I'd avoid Titan like the plague, given their propensity to spam forums with advertising for themselves.

I'm glad that got noticed. I felt like I was sending mail to a do-not-reply address.

You didn't shoot yourself in the foot by having the same DOB and use the same username on other forums as the owner though?

Although with all that said it is nice having the owner of your ISP on the same forum you use.