Who's Hot for ADSL?

[Chriss]

Hey, which companies are hot for ADSL at the moment. I'm currently with BT, who are offering me £15 a month for unlimited downloads, just wondering if there are any great deals out there?

I won't consider a company who uses 0844/0871 for customer service, like Tiscali, as I had £25 phone bill in calls to them alone last time I tried their service.

(I'm not in a cabled area, else I wouldn't ask the question and I'd just go with Virgin )
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[Phil.]

BT Are getting some pretty bad press at the moment for their throttling policies.

BE have a very good reputation, which are part of O2, who i'm with. I have to say i do my fair share of torrents and newsgroup downloading, never had any throttling issues.

Their customer service has been excellent. They even refunded the money it cost to buy a netgear router because i was having problems with the shite one they provide.

[Shaun]

I'm hot for ADSL, you should see me, all oiled up and gently stroking my throbbing member. Yeah.

[Villers]

As far as I know, BT do the Unlimited* service, i.e not unlimited. Fair use policies are complete bullshit.

I live in a crap area and Im stuck to a max of 8mb at the moment. We are paying BT £24 a month at the moment but are due to change next week. Since Sky seem to suck us dry at every opportunity I was thinking of taking them up on their offer of the sky talk and broadband. They are one of few who actaully are Unlimted, notice the lack of the *
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[Chriss]

I'm not in an LLU area, so I'd be stuck with 40GB cap for my broadband with Sky. Quite frankly, Sky have the worst customer service I have ever experienced, and are constantly changing their numbers to prevent saynoto0870 working.

I've heard good things about O2 actually. I may give them a crack. Still waiting for other recommendations.
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TheShaggyDA: I've got 3 or 4 pairs that predate my wife, so at least 11.5 years old.

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[NSR Mick]

You get what you pay for.

I'm with ZEN. Great customer service, no bandwith throttling and 8mb 24/7.
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[Drew]

Sky BB is starting to pee me off.

I'm on upto 16mb, and use to get around 10mb constantly. Now i'm lucky to get 3mb, so may as well go down to the 'upto' 8mb

[Charlie]

Slight thread hijack....

Living a student house next year, 8 of us. Who do you think I should do with? Bare in mind we are students so will probably need a truly unlimited service, none of this fair usage crap. I am pretty sure Virgin is available too.
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[Phoenix]

I'm with Be*, they got taken over by O2 but nothing has changed. It's a non contention connection so you get what can physcially achieve not share it with the rest of the local area.

Costs me about £17 a month I think for a 24mb line, however that really is a non issue as despite only living 1mile from the exchange I only get 3-4mb connection rate, it's as quick as my 8mb virgin line ever was though and it never breaks or slows down, period. Customer services is also efficient.

I have sky broadband free with my package but decided not to use it as i researched it and the response is appalling, slow, unreliable connection and non existant customer services.

[iooi]

[Phil.]

[Asharin]

[Chriss]

I'm sure Zen are very good, I'd expect it at that price, and I've certainly never heard a bad thing about them, however, that would double my broadband costs, and quite frankly, my internet isn't that important to me. Looks like I'm best off sticking with BT, as no one else seems to come close, £15 a month.

There are is one LLU service provider at my exchange at the moment, and one planned. Orange and Talktalk.

Thanks all!
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TheShaggyDA: I've got 3 or 4 pairs that predate my wife, so at least 11.5 years old.

[Phoenix]

[iooi]

[carvell]

I'm with O2, I'd recommend them.
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[GodzGift]

Mine is

UKONLINE
8mb
Unlimited
15 quid
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[Gti]

To the guys with Be, do you have the upload plus service the one that gives you 2.5mb upload speeds.
I'm thinking about getting it just for that but i wanted to know what sort of speeds your realising, i know its all relevant to how far you are from exhange but i want a rough idea.
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[Asharin]

No, I don't care about upload speed, so didn't get that. I still get around 1mb - 2mb upload though.
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[chris-red]

Not ADSL but I hav been very happy with Virgin I have the up to 20mb unlimited which costs about £30 I think. In the couple of years that we have had it I think we have had only 2 different occasions where we had trouble both times where a couple of hours then it was sorted.

I usually get between 15/20mb

https://www.speedtest.net/result/490977167.png
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[JonB]

I wouldn't recommend Virgin Media to students, once you hit 1.5gb of downloading within a 12 hour period you get throttled to 1mb. Believe me, we get throttled at least twice a week.

For personal use, i'd recommend Virgin if you are in a cabled area.

Connected Wirelessly, hence the not so great results, on 10mb Virgin.

https://www.speedtest.net/result/491033548.png
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[Hadies]

I'm with O2 and I'd recommend them too. Unlimited and only about a tenner a month. Plus you get a discount if you have an O2 network mobile phone! UL and DL are great. I always get host in online games and I'm only on their 8MB service

[The Artist]

I get 1-2mb broadband atm.

Shit speed because I am in the middle of nowhere but I use a re seller broadband.

60gb download limit 7am-11pm then 11pm-7am 300gb download limit. That is for each month £24 and includes bt line rental.

[Phoenix]

My Be* upload speed is only slightly slower than my download, about 250KB/s (download is 350KB/s), it's the basic 24mb line no fancy upload package.