tiscali or plusnet

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Hi

Which of these 2 ISP's is better for a business package.

We currently use ENTA who's service over the past year has been unreliable.

Thanks
 
BT Group own Plusnet... Tiscali are on the way down the pan anyway, as you'd know if you've been reading the news recently. Not sure about their business packages in comparison with the residential packages, but from what has been going on I certainly wouldn't trust them.
 
pennywise said:
BT Group own Plusnet... Tiscali are on the way down the pan anyway, as you'd know if you've been reading the news recently. Not sure about their business packages in comparison with the residential packages, but from what has been going on I certainly wouldn't trust them.
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Why are tiscali going down the pan? I am with them.
 
I can see you've posted in this thread already, so I'm sure you know what's going on from reading the articles. I certainly wouldn't want to invest money in the company at this stage anyway, and especially not for a business package. That's just me of course, obviously.
 
Well you can get Easynet's LLU service so you can probably get one of their business packages. Personally wouldn't bother with Be/O2 for business use as their service is hardly reliable (though granted it will probably be less congested during working hours).

All of the ISP's I mentioned offer unlimited packages, you just have to pay for it.
 
wij said:
Well you can get Easynet's LLU service so you can probably get one of their business packages. Personally wouldn't bother with Be/O2 for business use as their service is hardly reliable (though granted it will probably be less congested during working hours).

All of the ISP's I mentioned offer unlimited packages, you just have to pay for it.
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I thought o2/be were supposed to be good for ISPs?
 
bloodline76 said:
I thought o2/be were supposed to be good for ISPs?
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As with all ISPs, their reliability seems to differ in different areas. Strangely enough, you may have only been hearing the praise for them over the past 12/18 months, although there are numerous threads on here that've been condemning their service in the past few months, but when the slightest thing goes wrong you'll always hear the bad side before the good :p
 
Like I said, pay your money and take your choice.

If you don't really mind the drops in quality of service or the congestion that you will inevitably get from a service like Be/O2 then by all means save yourself money and use them as an ISP. I would go with Be just on the fact its a shorter contract (3 months, not 12/18).

If you require a constantly stable connection for business use with a decent network and low latency and the ability to cope with demands from its users then you're going to have to either a) pay for a leased line b) pay for a business grade ADSL service where the contention is much lower.

My requirements for when I work from home fall into the latter and as such I have two connections, one provided by Be which is great for high-troughput and just shifting large volumes of data and one from Zen which is what I use when I want something I know is perfectly stable. Entanet were always very good for me too, but their recent issues with the BTWC system meant it was no longer suitable for my needs so I left.
 
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