Which FTTC ISP?

Zen's service in general is excellent. Failing that, one of the ISPs which offers a fixed peak-time / unlimited any time is good.

From my very quick guess math, I would need to go with something like 50GB peak time traffic at a minimum. Some of the provider packages that I have looked at come in at ~£35 for that amount and get a little steep after (Zen obviously have the 100GB package in that bracket as noted earlier in the thread).

What about plusnet with the £5 pro addon. This removes the throttling, therefore giving you 120GB daytime, unlimited overnight for the odd scheduled download.

From what little I have read about the add-on, some people seem to say it has made little to no difference.

Is the Pro add-on a monthly contract or do you need to keep it for the same length as the whole package?

How long ago were you with BT? I left BT in 2007 due to them wrecking my connection and going from a stable 8mb line to a 4max due to being port shifted to a broken line card. I was a lover of BT and getting a nice vision box package i was so happy but sadly it came to an end when they refused to fix my line issues and sort out a very old drop cable that was split & had been cut and badly joined.

I left BT but will always remember the good days of english cs in 2004/05 when I had a great line. I went to adsl24 & they were great & had to be the best isp although expensive, next stop o2.

O2 has great cs & english speaking which was a bonus but sadly a house move forced me to get sky. I have no issues with sky and so far their cs has been as good as o2 and I wished I lived in a fibre area but my friends have it & so far they love it.... GRRRRR I thin its down to luck really with any isp.

If you did go with sky, open reach come fit a new box on the wall for your fibre and essentially your using openreach equipment. BT now is just like any other isp with equipment in the exchange and despite fond memories its basically another llu isp.

I moved from BT to Sky in late 2006 if I recall correctly. Went from 1mb fixed to ~2.8mb service on Sky LLU (long line ~5km +). I did have a similar issue with my line before I left BT that left me with a very un-stable service for around 2 months. That wasn't my main reason for leaving though - I left for Sky as it was cheaper and the LLU system would allow me to get more from the line compared to the BT profile system at the time.

I know, irrespective of which FTTC service I choose (for now) that Openreach will provide the modem and maintain the line. I do however, as already mentioned above, know that Sky (or any other retail ISP - BT Retail included) need to chase Openreach for faults or any line maintenance works to be done. Sky have demonstrated to me already that they are less than willing to do so.
 
Zen, if you're happy paying the cost for their service (which includes purchasing your own equipment).

I already have an Asus RT-N16 now but it is likely that I will be using this elsewhere and will need to buy another router.

You can't run Tomato on the RT-N56/66U. Have a look at this thread for info on the custom firmware:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18423219

Sorry I should clarify my earlier post.

Asus RT-N56 with the Third Party firmware - http://code.google.com/p/rt-n56u/

OR

Asus RT-N66U with Tomato - See here:
http://tomato.groov.pl/?page_id=69
http://tomato.groov.pl/download/K26RT-N/build5x-097-EN/READ_ME
http://tomato.groov.pl/download/K26RT-N/build5x-097-EN/
 
I hope you get a great connection :) jealous

I've got a good one now (24mb down/10mb up) with VFast.co.uk .

The fact that I can go from the above to 3x that down and 2x up for the same amount is better :D

I am also going to follow up with FTTP on Demand in the future.
 
Im with ADSL 24 and cant fault them,

Fully intend on staying when i get FTTC, no throttling, great service via ticketing whenever ive had a problem

Been with Zen in the past and although good it did become too pricey
 
Do ADSL24 offer referral discounts?

I know that Plusnet do but I thought I saw something for ADSL24.
 
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