I recommend the smaller ISPs - we use Andrews and Arnold for office connections (because they know their stuff) Zen for home connections (because they are consistently in the top 10 on
www.adslguide.org and their staff monitor the adslguide.org forums)
Easynet are terrible at the moment - we keep losing routes to some big sites - microsoft.com / windows update - if you do a tracert something in the middle somewhere replies that its IP address is 127.0.0.1 .... Easynet seem to be too big to fix the problems, its very difficult to have continuity through an issue and their technical people are a long way up the hold queue ....
We have a bonded ADSL from A&A using 2 firebricks which gives us 1mb upstream and 3.5mb downstream bonded for redundancy and bandwidth which we've had since April last year but have only really been using for 6 weeks since the easynet 2mb SDSL went silly. If you want big bandwidth and can't get/afford SDSL look at the A&A bonding ....
Personally, I use Zen at home and have always found it to be spot on, fast and reliable. You can have 8 IPs from the off and if you need to dial in over ISDN (maybe for disaster recovery reasons) Zen will give you the same IP subnet - so you can use something like a Draytek Vigor 2600X which has ADSL and ISDN interfaces to quickly reinstate your connection if necessary.
I always advise people to spend a bit more than the £15.99 cheapie pricepoint that's being bandied about at the moment - if you can afford the extra, spend £20 or £25 and put some distance between you and the P2P mob who are always attracted to the big name ISPs and flood onto the cheapest connections.
As ever, you get what you pay for ...
HTH
David
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