Changing ISP on Monday but to who....

BeatMaster · 24 Jun 2006 at 13:51

Going to be changing ISP on Monday but not sure who to change to?

Currently paying £17.99 for 512kb with Timewarp. Willing to pay up to about £25 a month for a 2mb/8mb line with a cap of at least 30/40Gb

Preferably a 1 month contract unless they are going to be good in which case it'll be fine to have a 12 month contract. Going to be used a lot for gaming so decent pings and of course the usual downloading and such.

The exchange isn't LLU so just standard ADSL

What do you recommend?

BeatMaster

mike1210 · 24 Jun 2006 at 14:05

for your requirements i would say Nildram would be your best bet

BeatMaster · 25 Jun 2006 at 11:18

Nildram sounds good but the question is....

2Mb or 8Mb

£23 or £26

What do you guys reckon?

BeatMaster

zetec452 · 25 Jun 2006 at 11:29

Im migrating to www.enta.net.

I did look at nildram but the peak usage hours are huge.

BeatMaster · 25 Jun 2006 at 11:34

JonRohan said:
Im migrating to www.enta.net.

I did look at nildram but the peak usage hours are huge.

The peak hours are quite big but at the same time theres a 50Gb cap which is quite a lot plus it rolls over....

I can't find the ADSL packages on Etna's site? :confused:

BeatMaster

tolien · 25 Jun 2006 at 11:36

You need to use a reseller, like http://www.ukfsn.org.

BeatMaster · 25 Jun 2006 at 11:42

tolien said:
You need to use a reseller, like http://www.ukfsn.org.

Oops

I think I'll stick with Nildram, but wondering whether our current router (Netgear DG824M) will be okay for ADSL Max?

BeatMaster

EDIT: If not, would the DG834G V2 be a better choice?

OllyM · 25 Jun 2006 at 11:47

The problem with the DG824M is that it has no diagnostics, no SNR readout or anything, which makes things difficult with Max.

Personally, I would recommend that you steer clear of Netgear stuff in the future, and go with something better...

tolien · 25 Jun 2006 at 11:47

BeatMaster said:
but wondering whether our current router (Netgear DG824M) will be okay for ADSL Max?

Does it still not give attenuation/SNR margin et al?
If no, then it's probably as good getting shot. Whether I'd recommend the DG834 remains to be seen, but for now I'll say no.

BeatMaster · 25 Jun 2006 at 12:08

There's no diagnostics. Well, I'm open to suggestions of what to get to replace the unit...let your suggestions be posted

BeatMaster

tolien · 25 Jun 2006 at 12:08

Here's mine.

Richdog · 25 Jun 2006 at 12:11

BeatMaster said:
Going to be changing ISP on Monday but not sure who to change to?

Currently paying £17.99 for 512kb with Timewarp. Willing to pay up to about £25 a month for a 2mb/8mb line with a cap of at least 30/40Gb

Preferably a 1 month contract unless they are going to be good in which case it'll be fine to have a 12 month contract. Going to be used a lot for gaming so decent pings and of course the usual downloading and such.

The exchange isn't LLU so just standard ADSL

What do you recommend?

BeatMaster

Ace Internet recently advertised an unlimited service, which Mistral couldn't sustain so they forced them to introduce caps.

However, the cap is now pretty generous... the only limits are for P2P users, 3.5GB a day at any time at full speeds... which equates to roughly 100GB a month. Very good imo, certainly more generous than Nildram etc.

zetec452 · 25 Jun 2006 at 14:41

tolien said:
You need to use a reseller, like http://www.ukfsn.org.

ouch, they are expensive.

tolien · 25 Jun 2006 at 16:03

JonRohan said:
ouch, they are expensive.

Pretty much par, unless you look at someone like Evo or Hi-V.

benjo plz. · 25 Jun 2006 at 16:12

IDNet gets my vote tbh.

csmager · 25 Jun 2006 at 17:01

Phnom_Penh said:
IDNet gets my vote tbh.

I've just signed up. I haven't even gone live yet, and I'm already impressed. Responses to emails in under an hour, and I'm not even a customer. They also said the migration should happen within 3 working days of placing the order - which beats my last migration time of 10 days!

Can't find many, if any, unhappy customers on their forum on AG.

xb8browney · 28 Jul 2006 at 18:36

csmager said:
I've just signed up. I haven't even gone live yet, and I'm already impressed. Responses to emails in under an hour, and I'm not even a customer. They also said the migration should happen within 3 working days of placing the order - which beats my last migration time of 10 days!

Can't find many, if any, unhappy customers on their forum on AG.

It took 3 days for me to, there very fast on replys i went live today

Richdog · 28 Jul 2006 at 18:40

Richdog said:
Ace Internet recently advertised an unlimited service, which Mistral couldn't sustain so they forced them to introduce caps.

However, the cap is now pretty generous... the only limits are for P2P users, 3.5GB a day at any time at full speeds... which equates to roughly 100GB a month. Very good imo, certainly more generous than Nildram etc.

R.I.P. Ace, cap has dropped dramatically and company is ojn its way out. I moved to IDNet.

wod_uk · 29 Jul 2006 at 10:33

beatmaster which isp have you changed to ?

nildram isn't that bad i hardly download anything so by the next month i have like 90gig to use up , as it carries over unused to next month.

BeatMaster · 29 Jul 2006 at 11:11

wod_uk said:
beatmaster which isp have you changed to ?

nildram isn't that bad i hardly download anything so by the next month i have like 90gig to use up , as it carries over unused to next month.

I changed to Nildram on DSL Surf

Been with them about 3 weeks now, no problems apart from was getting pings of 50ms but now down to 28-30ms so much better. Other than that, fast speeds all the time and plentiful available bandwidth :cool:

Excellent customer service too!

BeatMaster