Thought I'd ask you guys for a bit of advice. Getting thoroughly fed up with my sloooooow connection at home and reckon it's about time I got Broadband to speed things up. As a total novice in this field, could anyone point me in the right direction, which company you'd recommend, do's and don'ts etc? Aside from my main computer, I have a laptop that lives upstairs that isn't connected to the internet at all that I'd like to hook up as well. I'm currently using Tiscali (through a "box") on my BT line and have been eyeing up the £15.99 a month+modem+installation deal they have at the moment. Any thoughts and suggestions would be appreciated! :)

 

Cheers,

 

Leigh.

Well Friday,I am pretty sure that the tiscali £15 package is only 150kbps,go for the 500kbps at least;)

I use aol, but it is 28 a month and you cant network it. But I like it :)

Check out http://www.Pipex.net

 

free modem

free connection

 

I think I pay about £21 per month and connet at 576kbps

i use Pipex also. very good service.

 

like macca says - watch out for the cheaper "broadband" that gives you low bandwidth, its hardly worth the effort IMO!!

2mbps Telewest here - loving it

I use BT and also LAN up with my laptop, never had any trouble with it and always have a good ping for gaming:D

I use aol, but it is 28 a month and you cant network it. But I like it :)

 

I have 1mb AOL Jock,and you can network it,it actualy tells you how on the AOL site,but just do what i have ,use a Lan crossover cable to network to a lap top etc,or use a wireless broadband modem with 4 port lan connections,then just add wirless hardware/periferals to whatever you want to use,am sure theres plenty of bods on here that could explain or help bettter,me not being as far up the IT chain so to speak :D

 

Tony

I'm with jock on this, I use AOL, and the only probs I used to have were on dial-up, with getting connected. Since I got BB, no probs at all :D, oh and it only costs me £20 per month :D (576)

Top 4 Broadband ISP's

 

Taking into Quality of service, Tech support, Speed, Downtime & Total Cost of ownership

 

 

Nildram

Freedom to Surf

Pipex

Zen

 

I'd consider the primetime 2MB package from bulldog but I have heard some bad things about their reliability & server response times (ping)

 

 

http://www.adslguide.org.uk

 

Possibly the best ADSL resource there is.

Im on freedom 2 surf

512k

no setup fees or tie in periods.

unmetered downloads

20 e mail addresses

Static IP (no extra cost)

Oracle/Access space with full Perl,PHP,SQL support if you need it

buy your own modem if you want

will network ok

cost is £22.50 which isnt bad when you consider that BT didnt even give you e-mail with the 27.99 package

I'm with Freedom 2 surf as well - top company.

I network mine with wireless router and works lovely. Always very fast and always seems to be working!

I have....

 

Nildram (just - my house is the furthest house in the whole town from the exchange, from looking at the map!)

 

Ancient K6-something or other with RedHat / IPTables as firewall

Usual USB Alcatel frog plugged into it

D-Link WLAN access point

Belkin PC Card WLAN NIC (formerly known as PCMCIA)

 

Works for me - something like that would solve your laptop problem too...