I apologise, but..........which ISP?

[ScarySquirrel]

Hi all,

I'm moving house soon and this is going to be our nearest exchange - http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/NDRGR

As you can see, not many options for us.

Gaming is incredibly important to me. I am currently on O2 Broadband and have no problems whatsoever. O2 can only offer us their 'O2 Home Broadband Access' package. Which seems decent, it's unlimited, but I am slightly confused as to what the difference is between this and the 'Standard' package - http://broadband.o2.co.uk/home/packages.jsp

All I can see is that the upload speed is slower and it costs more

Other than O2, what are my options? Or am I destined to have a crap connection because I am living in the countryside!!

 

[ScarySquirrel]

Oh right I see.

Is using O2 through BT Wholesale better than going with BT direct?
Obviously there is the price advantage (about £1 a month for 3 months then about £8 a month after), but will the connection itself be exactly the same?

Is O2 my best option?

 

[ScarySquirrel]

Cable is available, but as I am moving into this house with my Mum (don't ask!) she has already gone and had a BT line activated, otherwise had I looked into this sooner I would have said go with Virgin as we could have got Unlimited phone and unlimited 20mb internet for about £25 a month

I wonder how easy it is to cancel the BT line. We move in 12 days and she needs to be up and running online straight away as she works from home.

 

[ScarySquirrel]

Residential and it has been activated. I think we'll just go with the O2 Access thing for ease.

I don't download a huge amount but it will be a bit of a pain when I do want to, but hey ho!

Reliability is the main thing.

 

[ScarySquirrel]

Well, we're in, and O2 had it all up and running for us when we got here (O2 Access that is)

Speed seems OK:



At first it was only doing about 1.5 Mbit, am I right in thinking it takes a few days to settle to a consistent speed?

Yeah, seems to be fluctuating