Best ISP for me??

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Hey guys,
I have just come off AOL (thank god) and my roommate has just got Virgin without me knowing. I thought oh well this will be fine, but it’s not!! It is so slow in the evenings I just can’t believe it. It is as slow as Dial-up. I phoned them about it and they say it’s a connection ratio problem (too many people) and should be fixed by the end of August. So I am going to pay the cancelation fee and move on to a more reliable ISP as it is too slow for what we do.
Ok here’s my info, I’m approximately 229 metres from the exchange (straight line distance). This should give me very good speeds. The exchange is ADSL and has a capable speed of 8Mbps. I download quite a lot about 40gb or a bit more or a little less a month.(Also getting a PS3 so I want fast internet and good pings for this, but mainly for general surfing and streaming/downloading videos) I would like the ISP to be usable like 2mb minimum (1.5mb pushing it)in the evenings. My price range is £25 a month preferably £20.
So please can someone recommend a few that they have had good experiences with, as I can’t stand Virgin!
 
Your best bet would be to go for a company you've never heard of, as soon as you go for a company like BT, Sky, Virgin, etc. you're just askign for trouble. Go for a small, unknown company, good customer service, good speeds, good prices.

A good site to use is http://www.adslguide.org.uk you can compare a number of different ISP's from users input, such as speed, customer service, etc.
 
sounds like you want an to sign up with a entanet reseller. one month contracts. £20 a month for 30gb peak (8am - 10pm) and 300gb off peak (weekends count as off peak too). 2 popular ones at the moment are ukfsn and adsl24. search the forums. plenty of people using them already. :)

from what i can gather (not on it myself yet. i'm migrating thursday) is that you get pretty much download at the max your line will support until around 10pm. of course this coincides with the off peak time starting so a lot of people start hammering their connections. during 10pm-12am speeds can go down as low as 2mb but no lower. you can check the usage charts....

http://noc.enta.net/?page_id=166

so long as the blue line stays below the red, you get max speeds. and the customer service seems to be great too. it's quite often just one or 2 people running these reseller businesses as they are comparatively small and of course no foreign call centres. :)

i'm looking forward to joining them. and if it all goes wrong. so what? one month contract, nothing to lose.

also when you bundle in unlimited email addresses and php/mysql enabled webspace included, it's pretty damn good value for 20 sheets a month. knowing my luck it will collapse on thursday when my line goes live. :D
 
I'm with IDNet and I've never had any problems. 30Gb download limit for I think its £25 a month. I don't play games but for downloading I get a solid 2Mbps any time. I think you can get up to 8Mbps but the 2Mbps does me. Don't know about there support as I've never had to use it :) but from what I hear its great.
 
marc2003 said:
...speeds can go down as low as 2mb but no lower. you can check the usage charts....
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The 2Mb but no lower bit often gets misquoted.

The odds are it won't even get that low most of the time except around 10pm as they do have plenty of bandwidth available, but there is nothing in their systems to ensure it never goes below 2Mb.

The 'Anti-loss Tool' - ALT - that they use works by slowing everyone down if bandwidth gets tight starting from the fastest profiles and gradually reducing till it reaches 2Mb.

This ensures that you don't get packet loss as a result of the pipe being congested, hence the name.

However when it does reach 2Mb it just stops trying to cope at that point and lets contention and packet loss take it from there, so if the load on a pipe stays too high you'll see slower speeds and packet loss at that point.

I repeat though, Entanet do have plenty of bandwidth and have only just announced that more is on the way so it isn't going to happen often, but the 2Mb is not a minimum speed, just the point where the system stops trying to cope :)
 
Yep. Entanet get my vote. I am on the Office MAX45 product - 45GB on peak, 300GB off peak with 832kbps upload too.
Amazing customer service with ADSL24, very quick, and I have yet to see it drop below 3MB. It's been rock solid so far.

Also, they have just ordered another segment and they are going to enable another 155 segment on central 5.
Apparently central 6 is going live next month too...
They are certainly making sure they have enough bandwidth, which is why I like them.
 
With a company called nitrotech

Seems a fair deal i got aslong as i dont abuse my connection then im uncapped to my max line speed for £35ish/month
 
well i have made my mind up. I was still in the cooling off period for virgin so i had no charges. Im gunna more to ADSL24 as they seem the best for me. thanks for your help guys.
 
I can say ADSL 24 is a great ISP, I been with a few enta net resellers now and for me ADSL24 is the best they are cheaper than my old one (freeola) and when I had to use the CustomerService it was top notch answered within seconds and provided me with an answer that sovled my problem in less than a minute.

At the moment I think enta.net resellers offers the best value for money and excellent service, you can't really go wrong with any of them but my recommendation would be adsl24.
 
Entanet get my vote to, im on UKFSN, excellent service, excellent speeds, very generous caps, and theres another 155 segment due to go live on Friday. :)
 
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