GRRRRRRRRRr why are there no good ISP providors?

OK been looking for 2 days solid now, I need options within the hour, got a house waiting on a recommendation from me, and they ALL seem crap, pipex wont transfer there current deal, so starting from scratch as above.

Lets move this up to an OCUK level 2 problem here ! :D come on guys, any speed broadband now (2mb or greater though! lol) BT line only, either uncapped or uncapped with 'fair usage rubbish' I KNOW u keep saying tiscali are BAD, HOWEVER if they dont use it much 6-11 do tiscalli stay true to there word ? can they do what they want at any other time ?
 
Pipex throttle BT ports its hardly unlimited. Like most people are saying want true unlimited pay for it.
 
Look out for Google broadband in the near future. Google have been buying as much dark fibre that they can lay their hands on in the uk. The word is that they are looking to build their own broadband network using NO BT infrastructure at all. Speculation is VOIP telephony, Video on Demand and upto 24meg connections to your door. The beauty is that this service will not be cotending with voice traffic on the network, which leaves a lot more bandwidth for pure data.

Interesting aricle in the times here http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2023600,00.html
 
Musashi said:
The beauty is that this service will not be cotending with voice traffic on the network, which leaves a lot more bandwidth for pure data.
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"Voice traffic" doesn't "contend" with data traffic on any other ISP's network either, and unless they're building an HFC network a la Telewest/NTL, they'll be using "BT infrastructure".
 
Im with newnet and they're really good. they don't throttle, don't port block, do 8meg and have a package called "Home U" that is up to 100GB a month for 24 pounds.

In my eyes, if you use more than 100gb (unless its for a website or summit) a month, you REALLY need to get out more. I'm on the computer a fair bit playing games, torrents etc and i only use up about 14gb's/month
 
AOL

I know most IT people absolutly hate AOL with a passion (please don't have a go if you are someone who feels that way about AOL), but i'm on AOL no problems for over 2 years (probs just kinxed meself now, but oh well), they've got upto 8Mb AOL Platinum for only £29.99 PM and a free wireless router. I'm on Silver, and had no problems, it's just an idea.
 
I'd just accept that you're not going to get it, and look at capped options if you don't want shaping and the like.

Nildram's £25.99/month service allows unlimited downloading at off-peak times (midnight to 8am, i think), and a 50Gb/month cap outside those times. For most people, that would be ample. By all accounts, it's a very good service.
 
As said you arn't going to find an 8mb connection with no cap for cheap unless it is LLU, I guess AOL can just about sustain it on 2mb connections as they probably have a high number of low users.

I am still on 1mb Unlimited, I wish BT had upgraded my line before Max to 2mb but it was "over the limit", max has proved it would be fine at 2mb considering my attenuation etc. :(.

£80 a month ex Vat for Office Max is a what it will cost. And with centrals not getting cheaper anytime soon neither will the price.


I am not sure if what Ofcom are doing is the best thing. It just seems to be giving BT a lot of money for not much work and people not in LLU areas get screwed.

If they spend the money on running fibre to my house I will let them off.


Zen LLU is what you want. :D
 
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