I've read the sticky at the top of the forum, and done a search, but I'm not coming up with much. Hopefully there are no issues with me posting this.
My friend (who isn't a spring chicken
) is about to move house. His new area has no LLU at all, and no cable. I emphasise the no LLU because most threads saying that still end up with a dozen "Be +1" posts. lol SamKnows says he can expect only around 2Mbps from ADSL Max, so my mate's already pretty gutted.
He's asked me to spec him an ISP, but to be honest; (1) I'm on cable now and have banished all thoughts of ADSL nonsense from my brain, and (2) even when I was on ADSL2+ I was with UK Online LLU - who were awesome - and as such can barely remember my ipstream days.
I recommended he check out Entanet (ADSL24 office package), but he said that the 100GB peak time cap might not be suitable. He wants me to recommend him a decent, reliable service that is 'unlimited' and that will have decent stability and pings for him to play WoW without issues.
Zen and AAISP are very expensive once you account for the caps, and of course I'm excluding BT et al. from the outset. The thing is, as we all know, BTw are very expensive and as such it's almost impossible to find an 'unlimited' ISP. I pointed out to him that even those who offer 'unlimited' bandwidth (including BT) basically just say that but throttle like hell and/or cut you off after xGB anyway.
At least with the likes of ADSL24 he'd have a transparent, known cap with no hidden silliness and he can work around it. 100GB peak and 'unlimited' off-peak isn't a bad deal for <£30 a month imho. But alas, he's asked me to look around for something 'better'; so, any ideas guys? TIA.
My friend (who isn't a spring chicken
) is about to move house. His new area has no LLU at all, and no cable. I emphasise the no LLU because most threads saying that still end up with a dozen "Be +1" posts. lol SamKnows says he can expect only around 2Mbps from ADSL Max, so my mate's already pretty gutted. He's asked me to spec him an ISP, but to be honest; (1) I'm on cable now and have banished all thoughts of ADSL nonsense from my brain, and (2) even when I was on ADSL2+ I was with UK Online LLU - who were awesome - and as such can barely remember my ipstream days.
I recommended he check out Entanet (ADSL24 office package), but he said that the 100GB peak time cap might not be suitable. He wants me to recommend him a decent, reliable service that is 'unlimited' and that will have decent stability and pings for him to play WoW without issues.
Zen and AAISP are very expensive once you account for the caps, and of course I'm excluding BT et al. from the outset. The thing is, as we all know, BTw are very expensive and as such it's almost impossible to find an 'unlimited' ISP. I pointed out to him that even those who offer 'unlimited' bandwidth (including BT) basically just say that but throttle like hell and/or cut you off after xGB anyway.
At least with the likes of ADSL24 he'd have a transparent, known cap with no hidden silliness and he can work around it. 100GB peak and 'unlimited' off-peak isn't a bad deal for <£30 a month imho. But alas, he's asked me to look around for something 'better'; so, any ideas guys? TIA.
