Closing Pipex DSL, any recommendations?

z0mbi3 · 26 Feb 2007 at 14:50

Booner! said:
DONT!

I just moving from them....

They are owned by Pipex anyways, you would be going around in circles as they are a shocking company!

I'm not suggesting he joins Bulldog, I'm just saying what the options that they give him are.

In point 2 on the letter they suggest bulldog by name.

Booner! · 26 Feb 2007 at 14:53

z0mbi3 said:
I'm not suggesting he joins Bulldog.

I wasnt implying that, I was merely suggesting that he didnt join Bulldog..

I am moving from them right now, only just got my MAC code and looking at:

1.) Eclipse
2.) Sky

So in same position as OP, but the two mentioned above are looking promising..I just cant see why SKY is that cheap!

Topgun · 26 Feb 2007 at 14:53

Booner! said:
DONT!

I just moving from them....

They are owned by Pipex anyways, you would be going around in circles as they are a shocking company!

Tell me about it. There is zero communication between departments. You just get passed between tech, cs and billing each time having to wait on hold for ages until eventually you just give up. Infuriating!

sedj · 26 Feb 2007 at 21:05

You may want to look here i have just left Pipex and signed up and are due to go live on the 1st of next month.

Pros:
Donload speed assuming your near an exchange thats enabled
Upload speed assuming the above
No limits
P2P
Same as what you spend now
Free wireless adsl router (although you do have to give it back if you leave)
No 12 month contract (3 month notice is needed tho)

Cons:
No email (i signed up a basic email package with purplecloud £5 a YEAR)
No webspace

Support is based in Bulgaria (but tbh they are very good and always get back to you)
O2 Have bought them out so things may change further down the line?

Lots of good things said of this isp, there maybe a few outages now and again but you would be hard pushed to get the same deal anywhere else?

z0mbi3 · 26 Feb 2007 at 21:54

sedj said:
O2 Have bought them out so things may change further down the line?

Can't promise anything but the O2 stuff is looking pretty promising atm.

sedj · 26 Feb 2007 at 22:00

z0mbi3 said:
Can't promise anything but the O2 stuff is looking pretty promising atm.

You work thar then?

I have seen many isps go dire over the last 3 years and much of that has come from over subscription which is directly related to advertising on tv to joe public. This isp will no doubt go the same way, but at least there is a 3month get out if it turns to mire

Get it while you can bretheren

squiffy · 12 Mar 2007 at 17:18

I've got 2 weeks to find another ISP/tariff. Any recommendations? :confused:

z0mbi3 · 12 Mar 2007 at 18:09

squiffy said:
I've got 2 weeks to find another ISP/tariff. Any recommendations?

bethere.co.uk

squiffy · 12 Mar 2007 at 18:39

Anyone else bethere? Do they have a hidden fup/monthly download limit?

wesley · 12 Mar 2007 at 20:23

squiffy said:
Anyone else bethere? Do they have a hidden fup/monthly download limit?

they do have FUP but nobody has been kicked out from bethere. i downloaded over 100GB in less 24 hours few weeks ago lol heard nothing from them

Macro · 12 Mar 2007 at 20:47

Just out of interest what on earth do people download to produce several hundred gig of downloads every month??????

Trifid · 12 Mar 2007 at 20:49

Do you really need to ask?

(Backing up data to a remote location :rolleyes:

)

z0mbi3 · 12 Mar 2007 at 20:54

Athanor said:
Just out of interest what on earth do people download to produce several hundred gig of downloads every month??????

Free porn. Welcome to the internet.

squiffy · 12 Mar 2007 at 20:56

Athanor said:
Just out of interest what on earth do people download to produce several hundred gig of downloads every month??????

Text files

iMacMart · 12 Mar 2007 at 20:56

Lol.........!!

iCe-BLaZeD · 13 Mar 2007 at 01:04

squiffy said:
Text files

firewallblocked · 13 Mar 2007 at 19:28

Athanor said:
Just out of interest what on earth do people download to produce several hundred gig of downloads every month??????

Norton Antivirus updates.

LoadsaMoney · 13 Mar 2007 at 19:51

tolien said:
AOL isn't unlimited. See this thread for starters.
Plusnet's pretty crap (and definitely isn't unlimited), and now BT own them it remains to be seen if it'll get any worse.

Yeah AOL isn't unlimited now seen as CrapPhone got hold of em, you should read Think BB, everyones kicking off on there as from half 6 till half 11 at night they throttle everyone to 70k, and they also have an FUP, they dont even tell you the usage limit, and with their being no defined usage limit they can hit you at will with a breach of FUP even if you use less than 1gb a month, and theres nowt you can do about it as their is no usage limit specified, its up to them, and they also install tracking cookies on your machine so they can track where you go and pass your details onto advertisers so you get bombarded with buy this etc.... and theres nowt you can do about that either as thats in the new T&C's and Privacy Policy which came into effect 1st Feb, so everyone still on AOL has agreed to all that.

I left in the 30 days notice period of the changes and went onto UKFSN, absolutely cracking service, glad i didn't decide to stay and see if Crap changed it at all, as they clearly have for the worst.

Also Pipex is up for sale now, and guess whos looking very interested, yes thats right, its the CrapPhone Warehouse.

squiffy · 14 Mar 2007 at 14:27

Just contacted bethere (typical Indian operator) can't sign up with bethere as my exchange isn't connected yet.

Fr0dders · 14 Mar 2007 at 15:07

at the end of the day, all ISP's will have a fair use policy

its what they use to get rid of people who use their services to send out spam, host child porn, DDOS websites etc...

just some ISP's have taken to adding a download limit in their FUP, then calling their service "unlimited - subject to FUP" giving it a bad name.

Virgin Media's current FUP has no mention of download limits in it, same with BEthere's

Go live with Bethere on friday. Will let you know how i get on