ISP recommendations

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Forgive me for an almost unanswerable question, but I am at my wits end with Sky and need some advice.
I used to be with BT for the landline and used Demon as my ISP through an old Home Office package. In the 6 years of having that package, I had ONE issue at all, and Demon couldn't apologise enough.
With my Sky connection it craps itself on a regular basis, is generally slower than glacial melt.
On one occasion I was without internet for 3 weeks due to their incompetent customer service.
I've now had enough and was wondering who you would recommend as a reliable ISP?

I can't get cable or fibre and am at the arse end of a non LLU exchange BTW :(
 
Cheers, I'll have a look at both of those.
Anything has to be better than this Sky nonsense! I know I'm not gonna win any awards speed wise (I'm on an aluminium line apparently and that's the better of the bundle we are on?!) but the random disconnects and mahoosive lag is killing me!
 
Cheers MissChief, replied now.

I was informed by the Open Reach engineer who eventually came out that we had been switched onto an aluminium line as the original copper line (of which I had a 6Mb sync) had degraded due to water ingress. He did seem to be just chancing it on which lines worked or not which was irritating in the extreme!
 
--- DSL Information ---
DSL Driver Version: AnnexA version - A2pB022g.d20e
DSL VPI/VCI: 0/38
DSL Status: ShowtimeRetrain Reason: 0
DSL Mode: G.DMT
DSL Channel: INTR
DSL Upstream Rate: 448 Kbps
DSL Downstream Rate: 4384 Kbps

Down up
DSL Noise Margin: 9.6 dB 18.0 dB
DSL Attenuation: 46.0 dB 24.5 dB
DSL Transmit Power: 19.6 dBm 12.1 dB

Thanks for looking too MissChief, I'm guessing that being stuck with BT Wholesale limits me as to what deals are available due to no LLU infrastructure in place. Arses!
 
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