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dannymccann
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Registered: 9th Aug 06
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20th Jun 07 at 12:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Following on from Topshot's Virgin Media thread, ive been tasked with providing an ISP for me and my 2 mates in our house for july. Ive picked TalkTalk cos it has no set up costs, and includes line rental and broadband for £21 a month. For TV we arent bothered about Sky and if we feel like it will get a freeview box for a tenner off ebay. Can anyone else recommend a supplier?

Ideally i want no setup costs cos I know what im doing anyway, we will be living in a cable area so both options open, already have a router and need a decent limit or unlimited and as cheap as possible lol

Cheers
topshot_2k
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20th Jun 07 at 12:48   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Pipex.co.uk

Max package insludes 8mb unlimited broadband and anytime calls. Need a Bt line though (total including BT line rental is £38.49 a month)
dannymccann
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20th Jun 07 at 12:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

£40 a month is quite a lot considering wont actually get 8mb and the fact pipex monitor what u are doing (thats why my parents mvoed away from them, bandwith witholding or something like that)
topshot_2k
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20th Jun 07 at 12:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

what do you mean monitor what you are doing? they have a fair use policy but ALL companies have this now.
12vMatt
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20th Jun 07 at 12:53   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

dont get tiscali, theyre absolute load of wank
dannymccann
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20th Jun 07 at 12:57   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by topshot_2k
what do you mean monitor what you are doing? they have a fair use policy but ALL companies have this now.


what i mean is, my dad does a bit of p2p and when we used to have their 2mb service we would be using it all day but never at full throttle, so they turned us down a bit, thinking to a max of 1mb, so we didnt do anything for a month or so and tried again and they had kept it at 1mb. no service schedules or anything, just lopped our connection in half
John
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20th Jun 07 at 12:57   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

BT are now supposed to be very good.

The top package costs about 27 quid I think but worth a look.
dannymccann
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20th Jun 07 at 12:59   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i hda a look and all their packages were like 4gb limits and stuff, or was i looking in the wrong place? im quite an advanced pc user and helped my dad find his new isp, but he has plenty of money to spend a month on it.....
topshot_2k
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20th Jun 07 at 13:02   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

link to that john? cheapest i found on their website was £37 for all calls and broadband
dannymccann
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20th Jun 07 at 13:02   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displayTopic.do?topicId=15764

Does that include line rental or do you NEED line rental for it? we wont be using the landline really, and u get 250 broadband minutes with it....
John
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20th Jun 07 at 13:04   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I wasn't including the line rental, sorry about that, probably will be at least 37 quid then.
I don't look at the line rental because I can't get cable and have to pay that whatever isp I go for.
topshot_2k
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20th Jun 07 at 13:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by dannymccann
http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displayTopic.do?topicId=15764

Does that include line rental or do you NEED line rental for it? we wont be using the landline really, and u get 250 broadband minutes with it....



if its BT or ADSL then you still have to rent the line
Cosmo
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20th Jun 07 at 13:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

UKOnline have always been good for me.

£20 for 8mb, £25 for 24mg IIRC.
dannymccann
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20th Jun 07 at 13:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

this is the bugbear, the ludicrous £11 a month for line rental which we wont even use, we all have mobile contracts with minutes. How much does a cable line cost to activate or per month? Ill hve a looksee at UKOnline
topshot_2k
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20th Jun 07 at 13:28   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

will have to pay for it to be installed, modem etc
dannymccann
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20th Jun 07 at 13:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

have to say the BT offers look good. Tried ringing UKOnline, got put through to some indian with a broken headset so ive emailed them instead. First impressions not great lol cant be worse than norwich union though....
dna23
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20th Jun 07 at 13:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

BT do traffic shaping now though.
dannymccann
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20th Jun 07 at 13:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by dna23
BT do traffic shaping now though.


Meh, bugger lol
dna23
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20th Jun 07 at 13:54   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

drunkenfool always raves about one, can't remember which it is Nimrod IIRC. not sure on shaping .etc
dna23
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20th Jun 07 at 13:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

This may help

http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs
dannymccann
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20th Jun 07 at 14:06   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

BT - throttles non-HTTP traffic, funny how it doesnt say THAT anywhere on their website....

Ive been looking at reviews for every ISP under the fecking sun on the internet and its all hopeless....
topshot_2k
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20th Jun 07 at 14:28   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

bulldog broadband?
Nismo
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20th Jun 07 at 15:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Nildram, Coming from someone who works in the industry they currently rate highly, good price , good service, good custoerm services, good support portal + online accounting and stats.

I would recommend them to anyone, have loads on here.

http://broadband.nildram.net/
xcore
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20th Jun 07 at 15:53   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

pipex is balls TBH
dna23
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20th Jun 07 at 15:56   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Nidram thats the one he's on about i'm going on them next year in a student house!

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