can any one recomended and good reliable internet provider, With good conection speeds, not many complaints and, oh yeah cheap lol

thanks graeme

can any one recomended and good reliable internet provider, With good conection speeds, not many complaints and, oh yeah cheap lol

thanks graeme

 

give madasafish (been around since early days of dial-up) a go, very good service and customer support, also open to a bit of good-ol-fashion haggling on deals...

give madasafish (been around since early days of dial-up) a go, very good service and customer support, also open to a bit of good-ol-fashion haggling on deals...

 

not my experience of them - 3 months arguing with an indian call centre, and finally threatening legal action before they arranged for a BT engineer to come out... to tell them that there was an exchange fault... as I'd been telling them all along!

All companies have their problems, your best bet and this is something im going to do is go with a private company who offer only 1 hop to the net.

 

At the moment i have Aol , which is now carphone warhouse, i only pay for 4MB but get 8Mb if the router logs in with my account and not the master account :S . My connection resets 2 times at night, one at 12 and one at 1, sometimes it can be down for hours or sometimes just a simple sign in, sign out job. After aruging with AOL about the problems they kinda of fixed it, but gaming wise im still sitting between 60ms ping when my friends on virgin are on 20ms ping :S just really does annoy me!

I think the main priority is getting someone with UK technical support - it's all very well going through someone's script (where they ask you to run their online diagnostic, despite the problem being you;re not online)... but when they have absolutely no technical knowledge and only a faint grasp of english it really is a complete joke.

You'll probably get 20 different recomendations and just as many others complaining about those that are being recomended tbh there is'nt much between them.

 

Except AOL...everyone hates AOL ! :rofl:

 

I've used Pipex for my residential broadband for the past 4/5 years, but that was becuase I was used to dealing with them as a Corporate business customer which is where their background lies. I would'nt know what their customer service is like for Home users though...as I've never had to contact them....it simply just works. :)

 

If I was to change now it would probably be for somebody like Sky, as they offer such great value deals - Phone, broadband and sky TV for peanuts.

I'm on eh Oh Hell !

Zen - no doubt.

 

I'm an IT Consultant and I use them for my company and so do quite a few of my clients. Not necessarily the cheapest, but I've never had a problem, they know what they are talking about when you have a technical question (as opposed to 'erm... have you switched it off and on again?'), are based in the UK and best of all they don't clog up your PC with loads of crappy software! All they do is send you your login details and let you get on with it :)

 

In fact - look here:

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HTH!

I am with tiscali. Don't reallt have any problems with them but my sister has.

 

Supposed to on 8meg but have been as low as 56k and as high as 7meg, just depends what time of day but you will probably find this with all ISP's.

 

Ask yor neighbours what they are on and then perhaps go for something different.

 

Darrell

Hated madasafish, love BT, no grief for me, router occasionally freezes, otherwise fast service for me.

I'm with Be, and had no problems (well, except an issue with their wireless router, but then I use my own anyway). I'm on the Unlimited package, which gives you a potential top speed of 24Mb (so basically as fast as your line allows) for £18 per month.

 

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