Guest casper508 Posted November 22, 2003 Report Posted November 22, 2003 Its been over a year since I joined Freeserve BB (half meg). Over the last month or so their service has not been upto the mark and i'm seriously thinking of moving. (Add to that the 70 quid they charge to change access numbers). Can you guys recommend any good plans??? I'm on a BT line and would not want to pay more than £30 a month with a minimum half meg connection. Any suggestions?? Cas
Guest Gorskar Posted November 22, 2003 Report Posted November 22, 2003 Well you could join Zen Internet, but maybe I'm biased as they pay my wages :lol:
Guest kyrkesmith Posted November 22, 2003 Report Posted November 22, 2003 I use fairBroadband. They charge an incredible £18.49 per month. It does seem a buit cheap to be very sustainable, but I haven't had any problems with them in the year I've been with them.
Guest Posted November 22, 2003 Report Posted November 22, 2003 Zen is good - I use them at work. At home I use Plus Net which has never given me any probs, and has recently won a couple of awards from various magazines. For detailed info its worth looking at http://www.net4nowt.com/listings/isp_packages_directory.asp?Package_Selected=Broadband>these pages on Net4Nowt which has reviews of various ISPs or look at http://www.adslguide.org.uk/isps/summarylist.asp>ADSL Guide.
Guest spacecowboy6982 Posted November 22, 2003 Report Posted November 22, 2003 I use AOL BB. £27.99 a month and works a charm. Its worth having it just for the SPAM blockers !!! Excellent service from AOL also - no complaints. If your really wanting to push the boat out - get AOL 1mb. That'll cost you £40; but from what I hear its great stuff. spacecowboy
Guest casper508 Posted November 22, 2003 Report Posted November 22, 2003 AOL is not in my wishlist, sorry. I've looked at Bulldog Communications at the link mattkirby gave and they've got some amazing deals. Has anyone used it/is using it ? Would really love to know. Cas
Guest kyrkesmith Posted November 22, 2003 Report Posted November 22, 2003 Bulldog Communications. This looks kinda nice.
Guest mike-oh Posted November 23, 2003 Report Posted November 23, 2003 I have NTL BB 600k, only (get this) £10 for the 1st 3months!! then £24.99 after that. Free modem and installation. It's on an 8 month contract cos we're students plus the cost is share between a couple of us, granted the last bit might not help but there you go.
Guest Brody Posted November 23, 2003 Report Posted November 23, 2003 Mike-ohalloran, we have a pretty similar setup here!
Guest chocobogo Posted November 23, 2003 Report Posted November 23, 2003 freedom2surf are good 22.50 a month with static ip, no usage limits atall!!
Guest Emad Posted November 23, 2003 Report Posted November 23, 2003 At uni I have my standard 1 gig connection.. At home I use NTL 600k - not bad for £25 a month, free modem and connection - is there any caps on it nowadays?
Guest kyrkesmith Posted November 23, 2003 Report Posted November 23, 2003 Might also like to consider freenetname at £24 per month, with free connection. One bonus is that they give you a free .co.uk domain name, with 20MB of webspace.
Guest casper508 Posted November 23, 2003 Report Posted November 23, 2003 Might also like to consider freenetname at £24 per month, with free connection. One bonus is that they give you a free .co.uk domain name, with 20MB of webspace. WoW, that sounds really nice. Might give em a call!! Cheers kyrkesmith Cas
Guest b1uepower Posted November 23, 2003 Report Posted November 23, 2003 i use pipex they are pretty good.. not a proplem with them and iam now on a 1mb line for only a cuple £'s more :lol:
Guest Bunchie Posted November 24, 2003 Report Posted November 24, 2003 If you can get it Telewest Blueyonder is excellent. We have the 2mb here which is so fast its just not funny! :lol:
Guest spacecowboy6982 Posted November 30, 2003 Report Posted November 30, 2003 Hmm, thinking about Telewest 2mb actually - imagine it'll be quite an improvment on 0.5mb :shock: It it a whole package deal e.g. tv and phone or ca nu just get the 2mb line :?: spacecowboy
Guest spacecowboy6982 Posted December 3, 2003 Report Posted December 3, 2003 Just upgraded to AOL 1mb - bloody hell its lightning fast :!:
Guest Matt Kirby Posted December 3, 2003 Report Posted December 3, 2003 Just upgraded to AOL 1mb - bloody hell its lightning fast :!: "AOL now give you shed-loads of spam twice as fast as other broadband packages"! :lol:
Guest spacecowboy6982 Posted December 3, 2003 Report Posted December 3, 2003 Afraid not mate - absolutly no spam whatsoever. Email included. :lol:
Guest Matt Kirby Posted December 3, 2003 Report Posted December 3, 2003 Just give it time! AOL's spam prevention measures are good, but they'd have to be. Spamers know that they will get a high hit rate spaming [email protected] so AOL is an easy target. Also I have seen software on Download.com (a few years ago so probably isn't there any more) that will trawl user lists to gain active screen names from the AOL service. For spamers it's quite easy to obtain your AOL screenname. You just have to hope that AOL mark their card before the spammers mark yours.
Guest spacecowboy6982 Posted December 3, 2003 Report Posted December 3, 2003 Interesting. We've been with AOL now since 95' and their SPAM serivce has improved beyond belief :!: AOL 8.0 is brilliant. I can honestly say I've not had SPAM in my mailbox for a solid month. Also, theres a pop-up killer built in to all websites and produces a satisfying click when it kills one. In my opinion, I wouldnt leave AOL unless I actually saw something else that worked as efficiently and effectivly as it does. Downside its pretty expensive. £35 a month :shock: But if your like me and download shed loads of movies etc then I's say its worth it :lol: spacecowboy
Guest Gorskar Posted December 4, 2003 Report Posted December 4, 2003 AOL provide a good service for 1 computer providing you like everything done for you. For the family market and the technically unsavy they rock, as its really easy to use, and from what I've heard their service is pretty reliable. If however you like to be able to configure things yourself, and you want to use more than one computer on your broadband connection then AOL are not the way to go.
Guest paulmottley Posted December 10, 2003 Report Posted December 10, 2003 Tiscali anyone? broadband now from £15.99 per month
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