Ant
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Registered: 12th May 02
Location: Hereford and Worcester
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Cable isnt an option for me and although i more than happy with the AOL ADSL its far to expensive.
The AOL has served me well (dont use the software just connect through my wireless router)
Requirements are must be
8meg+
unlimited transfer
reliable
must not block P2P / Bit Torrent ports
cost less than the £30 a month AOL are charging.
Not asking much am I 
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Ant
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Registered: 12th May 02
Location: Hereford and Worcester
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thinking of sky as I can get it for £10 a month
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Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
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Don't go with Tiscali!! Currently with Demon and I havn't made my mind up about them yet!!
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Pablo
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Registered: 3rd Feb 03
Location: Milton Keynes
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I have sky 40GB Limit, £5 a month up to 8MB
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--Dave--
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Registered: 17th Feb 04
Location: Essssseeeeex Drives: Black Supra TT
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A few people here have Sky Broadband at home, they say it's shit and they're always getting disconnected and sometimes have issues connecting.
I've never had a problem with BT.
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Robbo
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Registered: 6th Aug 02
Location: London
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If you have a Vodafoe mobile then Vodafone At home... Unlimited,8mpbs, fixed line phone rental included... all calls to national numbers (excl 0845 etc.) and VF mobiles are free... £25 per mth 
Also it is a re-badged BT service so there won't be any problems whatsoever!!!
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Ant
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Registered: 12th May 02
Location: Hereford and Worcester
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hmmm those of you with sky can you get on ebay.co.uk
apparantley the sky IP is out of range of many big websites so it filters them out, not sure if this is yet resolved.
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Ant
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Registered: 12th May 02
Location: Hereford and Worcester
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no im with 02 Robbo
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Robbo
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Registered: 6th Aug 02
Location: London
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Well switch to a Vodafone contract, £25 in it for you if you do!
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Ant
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Registered: 12th May 02
Location: Hereford and Worcester
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I do need a new phone, though I have a moral issue with vodafone after they recorded a default against my credit record which wasnt my fault but they refused to remove. (5 yeras ago)
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Robbo
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Registered: 6th Aug 02
Location: London
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Will be gone by now!
u2u for more info 
£25 should allay your displeasure
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Ant
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Registered: 12th May 02
Location: Hereford and Worcester
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no its still there I only found out last year, takes 6 years for it to drop off.
Anyway any other view on SKY as at £10 month for 16meg seems to good to be true, you have to use there router for some reason but i think its a netgear dg834 and im already running one with no problem at all for over 2 years.
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WATSON
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Registered: 16th Jun 05
Location: Fife, Scotland
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quote:
Originally posted by Marc
Don't go with Tiscali!!
Any why not 
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Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
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Because they're rubbish. The service goes down for weeks on end. Their Indian call centres don't have a clue and its against their policy to give out MAC codes, resulting in 2 more weeks offline.
But if you like that sort of thing go ahead.
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Nismo
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Registered: 12th Sep 02
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quote:
Originally posted by Ant
Cable isnt an option for me and although i more than happy with the AOL ADSL its far to expensive.
The AOL has served me well (dont use the software just connect through my wireless router)
Requirements are must be
8meg+
unlimited transfer
reliable
must not block P2P / Bit Torrent ports
cost less than the £30 a month AOL are charging.
Not asking much am I
Nildram would be your best bet. They have a 50Gb peak time cap, but lets be fair thats a lot to download plus most people download durring the night anyway.
Ive been with them 3 years and i cant fault the service. 
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WATSON
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Registered: 16th Jun 05
Location: Fife, Scotland
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quote:
Originally posted by Marc
Because they're rubbish. The service goes down for weeks on end. Their Indian call centres don't have a clue and its against their policy to give out MAC codes, resulting in 2 more weeks offline.
But if you like that sort of thing go ahead.
Been with them for just about a year now and had not one problem, Same with when i was with AOL for over 4 years i didnt have one problem with them aswell 
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Ant
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Registered: 12th May 02
Location: Hereford and Worcester
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Ill have a look at that nismo only problem maybe is my machine is usually downloading 24/7 (not at the moment as my BT client keeps crashing 15 mins after I walk away form it)
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James_DT
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Registered: 9th Apr 04
Location: Cambridgeshire
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The Nildram cap is only peak time, it doesn't apply in off-peak hours.
Sky BB are very good, I have the £10 one at Uni and it's very quick, the router is great, and they don't block P2P traffic. It's got a 1meg upload too, which is handy for BT.
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Ant
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Registered: 12th May 02
Location: Hereford and Worcester
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quote:
Originally posted by James_DT
The Nildram cap is only peak time, it doesn't apply in off-peak hours.
Sky BB are very good, I have the £10 one at Uni and it's very quick, the router is great, and they don't block P2P traffic. It's got a 1meg upload too, which is handy for BT.
do you have any problems getting onto some websites due to the IP range with sky? does the connection drop alot? did you get cinnected soon after you ordered
They sky one is seriously tempting its just there is so much bad publicity about them all over the net.
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Nismo
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Registered: 12th Sep 02
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Sky do throttle P2P traffic , but not that badly (unless you hammer it)
The website issue was a temp issue and is resolved now.
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Munchie
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Registered: 17th Jul 01
Location: I swap goats for mobile phones
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ukonline is good.....no limts etc
i can get u ure first months free as well
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Ant
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Registered: 12th May 02
Location: Hereford and Worcester
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Just spoke to SKY they can do me sky+ in 2 rooms plus max broadband for £47,
Just checked on some forums and it seems with my line stats I should see eaisly in excess of 16mb with adsl2+
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Nismo
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Registered: 12th Sep 02
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dont count on it 
its one of those things that you wont really know till its in.
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shawboy
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Registered: 1st Jul 02
Location: Wombwell, Barnsley
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iam with orange, been with them for about 5 years now. cant knock them.
also if you have a phone contract with them its free broadband.
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Ant
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Registered: 12th May 02
Location: Hereford and Worcester
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quote:
Originally posted by Nismo
dont count on it
its one of those things that you wont really know till its in.
only live 250m from my excahne and my downstream attenuation is 11db and snr 18db
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