I'm glad im not with BT - BT goes after broadband gluttons

[zaknafien]

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4841132.stm

How long till people wake upto the fact that BT is utter crap in all departments and stop handing them money to continue operating?
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[instigator]

BT are usually used by those that don't know any better - the elderly and those that couldn't give a crap where their money goes, so long as they get the service.

Tesco broadband all the way Not really, they're quite crap in all honesty

[Rob W]

I'm really surprised Telewest doesn't completely dominate the broadband market. No download limits and perfect service, in the 4 years we've had it there's never been ONE problem. Apart from the time a lorry driver had a heart attack and smashed through the exchange, but they fixed that within 24 hours, and it's hardly something you can plan for.

Plus every 6 months they upgrade your line for free, cant wait for 8MB .
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[NSR Mick]

your lucky then Reflex, Telewest is utter bilge their service is up and down like a pair of hoares knickers, their no better than BT.

I'm with ZEN constantly awarded best ISP. I swapped from Bulldogs 2mb to Zens 2mb and there is a noticable difference in connection quality and speed.
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[Minky_monkey]

[impaler]

I've been prodded by Tiscali for the same sort of thing - it's meant to be unlimited but (as with most ISPs) they have a 'fair use policy' that states you should try not to do big downloads/P2P stuff between 6-11pm. I had a couple of days where I was downloading a DVD in the evening and sure enough the warning email came. Being the first warning, all it said was to ease off the evening downloading, otherwise they put you on to a shared 'pipe' with other big users which would effectively give you a shite service in the evening. I've started doing my downloading (~30Gb/month) overnight and they've had nothing to say about it since.
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[Rob W]

[NSR Mick]

must dpendent on the area then mate.

I know loads of people round my way that moan about it all the time.
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[Rob W]

[daz|n00by]

6 years with Telewest and cant say a bad word about them, did have a bit of down time once when the box down the road was broke into, they worked through the night and gave us a time down refund, and now they are upgrading to 10 meg for no price increase.

Cant reccomend them enough to people .
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[Rob W]

[zaknafien]

[NSR Mick]

heres me slagging ntl off and bigging up Zen and what happens this afternoon? My broadband goes down for the 1st time in 3 years. Must be some Karma thing going on, lol.
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[The View Askew]

NTL cable broadband. Flawless. Seriously, 2 years no downtime nothing, download speeds are good for a 2mb con.
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[ProXimaCore]

BT already kicked me off for excessive use. Tiscali have put me on reduced speed connection, which seems to be worse than a 56k modem. Who would you recommend for ADSL?

A few mates have recommended Pipex. Anyone used them?
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[instigator]

[NSR Mick]

Strange as it sounds, you get what you pay for.
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[Inkognito]

I'm on telewest aswell and never had any problems.. but it's a shame they're merging with NTL because NTL sucked bigtime when i was on there.. always cutting me off and couldn't download anything without them cutting the conenction off all the time.

[kawakid]

[Rob W]

[NSR Mick]

[kawakid]

[Mrs Kickstart]

Hi,

I am with Nildram (you cant have cable where I live) and they have been really good. The bad part is it has to come over the BT lie which is only 512mb on a good day.
Without Nildrams help sorting it I dont think it would work at all.

the neigbours are with PIPEX (slightly cheaper) the system works about the same but the customer service is not as good as Nildram but loads better than BT

Regards
C
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[ali-b]

I know loads of people slag off NTL, but I've had the service since 1997 (when the customer service was rubbish and they weren't NTL) and have enjoyed a near zero downtime service. I know it depends on what area you're in blah blah blah, but for me it works very well (and I do download lots of stuff so not really an 'occasional' user).

BCF ISP usage stats???

A.

[colin1]

im with telewest and they seem ok but i dont like the fact that new customers are charged half what i am charged.

i am tempted to cancel my service, then sign up with them to ge the new customer deal but i am addicted to bcf and wd struggle to do a week without it
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