Need help choosing an ISP

Nazca

Nazca

Nazca

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Hey there. In September I'm moving to a student home. There's gonna be 5 of us. The previous residents had an NTL line and cancelled it. We want to get a BT line with ADSL.

I need help finding a decent ADSL ISP with the max speed and value, and preferable unlimited downloads. We don't to pay stupid amounts of money, but we would like to get a fast service. Other goodies such as newsgroups access, etc. would be looked upon as a plus point :P

So far I've looked at Bulldog, but I'm hearing a lot of bad stuff about them.
Zen; looks good and quite well priced. But according to samknows Zen LLU isn't supported in Nottingham.
Easynet; Seems business only, and very expensive, but heard very good stuff about them (probably avoid them still though.)
Nildram: They used to be good I hear, but now they've turned crap apparently :confused:.

Can anyone comment on my suggestions, or suggest other ISPs that fullfil my criteria?

Cheers
 
Had a look at IDnet. The inclusive bandwith is only 30GB for a home service. And £69 for Business service is too much for us. We need a lot more bandwith because we'll be downloading a fair bit.

Also, Zen; As mentioned before I entered the postcode in samknows. It said that the Zen xLLU isn't supported. Guessing that means we can't have Zen?

I've had more of a looky round. It seems Bulldog might be the way with the 8Mbit line, unlimited downloads, and fairly cheap.

Question is, is it actually 8Mbit or is it MAX DSL from Bulldog? Also, I've heard their customer service is pretty shoddy.

Are there any other ISPs?

Edit: Had a look at this website http://www.ukonline.net/broadband/compare_services.php?sso_auth=0
Looks quite tempting. Anyone got any experience with Ukonline?
 
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So it looks like I might go for Zen 8000 Pro. Using the compare feature on adslguide, looks like Zen is one of the best. Got to get the BT line installed first. :P

Edit: Are there any fixed 8Mbit ISPs? Not MAX DSL?
Or should I stay with NTL. And get the 10Mbps service? I've not heard much good from NTL. There's no mention of the upstream rate on that service. Anyone know?
 
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I can't find anything about ADSL2+ on that site.

Could someone please answer this question? :

Would it be a good idea to reopen an NTL account with a 10MBit line? Or would it be better to install a BT line and go with a decent ISP?
 
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