What's your reccomended ISP?

shotgunshand

shotgunshand

shotgunshand

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Hello,

I see plenty of moaning about ISP's but I'd like to see a thread on recomending ISP's with good stories.

This may die a death, but it'd be nice to have a little ballance.

Cheers,

R
 
Andrews & Arnold (AAISP). Not the cheapest ISP, but you get what you pay for.

Support guys that know what they are talking about and fix stuff in minutes instead of days, services that are useful and actually work, and even the Boss is regularly on IRC.

I only migrated out to Virgin as BT totally destroyed my phone line for ADSL and eventually voice otherwise I'd still be with them now. I'm moving this year and I'm looking forward to going back (although VM has been good in the sense that I generally dont get an issues and I'll miss the bandwidth)
 
I'm with talktalk which comes up as Opal Telecom during speed tests. I can't complain. I'm about 100 metres from our towns local exchange so get great performance. Last place I was in was out in the sticks (about 4 miles from the exchange) and I couldn't get more than 1mb stable with talktalk.
 
Ah my old tesco account was good on dial up, we had some unlimited time online for 9.99 a month deal back in the dial up days (I lived in a village so broadband was a bit late to us)

Shame it disconnected you every 2 hours but it could have been worse...
 
LLU: Be*
BT 20/21CN: Zen
FTTC: Zen
Virgin Media cable if it's available in your area and isn't oversubscribed.
 
Zen, I have been with them for years without a problem, brilliant service.

However, if you can get VM id go with that.
 
BT...
Before you all flame me, it's all I've been able to have for 3 years until recently, and had no issues at all. Only downtime was when some sucker ripper out the telegraph poles (literally) with his crane!
 
PistolPete said:
Andrews & Arnold (AAISP). Not the cheapest ISP, but you get what you pay for.

Support guys that know what they are talking about and fix stuff in minutes instead of days, services that are useful and actually work, and even the Boss is regularly on IRC.
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Agreed and if you're out at work during their peak then the cost isn't that bad. It's only if you need a lot of peak bandwidth that it becomes expensive.

Dirk said:
Be. Perfect in every way.
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Other than the fact that they're only available from a minority of exchanges.
 
Used to be with Pipex before they went business only and past 3 years have been with Be. Never had an issue with either of them. Have to say Be is actually better their support staff are quite knowledgeable compared against the likes of BT staff who do not know what DNS servers are and Sky who appear to read from a manual or something they see on screen.

I work for an IT company so I have encountered many ISPs, BT I have to say come off worst!
 
O2 is excellent.

I am just about to change to sky being cheaper as I have sky tv and phone but I have been with O2 for two years and never had one day without 16 meg broadband. Hopefully sky will be as good.
 
VM (ex-Telewest), been with them since 1999 and had very few issues with them, maybe one day per year down at most.
 
IDNet for support, they've always been exceptionally helpful, sadly I ended up moving to sky for cheaper broadband/phoneline/tv.
 
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