ISP Choices.

EchoFox · 16 Jul 2009 at 01:19

Good Evening.

I have the choice of the following ISPs:

AOL
C&W / Bulldog
Orange
Pipex
TalkTalk (CPW)
Tiscali

Can anyone recommend the best provider based on the available choices?

Teki187 · 16 Jul 2009 at 07:06

EchoFox said:
Good Evening.

I have the choice of the following ISPs:

AOL
C&W / Bulldog
Orange
Pipex
TalkTalk (CPW)
Tiscali

Can anyone recommend the best provider based on the available choices?

Lol none to be honest, check www.fast.co.uk there currently the best.

EchoFox · 16 Jul 2009 at 23:58

Yeah, I know. I have of course already looked at www.fast.com. The reason I specified those choices is that in the area I will be living from September, Norwich, those are the only ISP's as far as I know.

tolien · 17 Jul 2009 at 00:06

No. Those will be the LLU providers from the exchange you'd be connected to, but there will be dozens of other ISPs who use BT Wholesale.

As for suggesting the "best provider", that rather depends on what you want from a provider (such as price, speed, features, usage allowance).

Rroff · 17 Jul 2009 at 00:13

AAISP
IDNET
BE
O2
Sky

Generally head the list... you've listed some of the worst of the middle of the road pack.

EchoFox · 17 Jul 2009 at 01:40

Again, they're not my choices. They are the only ISPs apparently available in Norwich, according to http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/EANCC. At least, that's what I thought.

I was really hoping for BE, since I've heard such good things about them, but they don't seem to operate in my specified area. That is, they don't operate a LLU service.

Are there significant advantages to your ISP using LLU, or is it merely a cost saving practice?

Thanks to everyone who has replied so far; this information is all great. I've been trying to decide on all this for some time now.

VaderDSL · 17 Jul 2009 at 01:46

I've been with http://www.idnet.net/solutions/home/broadband/ for a while on their ADSL Max package for a while, got upgraded to the new ADSL2+ service from BT's network upgrades and love it.

tolien · 17 Jul 2009 at 12:04

EchoFox said:
Again, they're not my choices. They are the only ISPs apparently available in Norwich, according to http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/EANCC. At least, that's what I thought.

Again, the "ISPs available" on Samknows are the ones with an LLU operation on that exchange, not the only ISPs available.

Are there significant advantages to your ISP using LLU, or is it merely a cost saving practice?

Pretty significant cost savings, but they also can offer ADSL2+ where BT Wholesale don't do that everywhere yet.