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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Matt on May 31, 2005, 05:08:54 PM
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Dear All
I would be grateful if anyone could give me some reccomendations of any isp's that anyone is using in the uk for their broadband connection
thanks
matt
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Hi there,
I'm currently using Blueyonder for my cable broadband at home (512Mbit) and also have their service at work too (4Mbit) and have had no problems at all with downtime. My friend is using Pipex for his 2Mbit ADSL connection at home and he swears by it.
Down to persoanl preference in the end and obviously what services are available to you ie. cable or ADSL or both.
Hope this helps,
Arthur
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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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Hi
I know its not sexy, but I use BTBroadband at home (2M), and at work (512k) for email and a bit of webbrowsing, and I've never had a moments problem. Always on via a router, and to my knowledge never been down.
Tony
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Try
http://www.clara.co.uk
not the cheapeast but will supply with static ip at reasonable cost.
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Two suggestions, one good, one terrible.
Stay away from Bulldog. I switched a few months ago and the experience has been painful (lots of downtime, non-existant support).
I'm switching back to my old ISP, Freedom2Surf. If you read about them on adslguide.org.uk, you'll find a great many people commenting how they have never had to call support, ever. I was with them for three years and only had a few minutes of downtime. Serves me right for moving, but Bulldog sold me on having 4 meg downstream, and 456 upstream. At the time F2S couldnt match it. They also have a public blog thats run by their own staff and customers: http://www.freedom2support.net.
The other bonus is they have packages that include static IP's. A lot of consumer ISP's are starting to not include that (Homechoice, BT, UKOnline etc etc) on low end packages.
Geoffrey