Guest dale Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 Just thought I would kick off this "new" forum with finding out who uses what ISP and which ones are best? Personally I use a company called Eclipse Networking, you pay a setup fee (about £50) and you get a 512/256 connection with contention ratio of 50, and most importantly, a fixed IP address! The only trouble we ever had is when the nice people at BT were doing things with our line and in the process managed to cause a line cease which disconnected the ADSL, then BT said they knew nothing about it, until I rang eclipse and they told me what was going off and thankfully organised to get it all switched back on! Theyre support service is pretty good, dont have to wait on the end of a phone line for ages like you do with most companies! Even easier if you use the online support system. Think we pay about £23 a month.... any one with any company they think is better? Cheaper? Dale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Electrics Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 I use PIPEX www.pipex.net. Good service same ratio as eclipse and connection at 512/256. Never have problems very reliable. B) Free setup + Speedtouch modem I think it is about £25 a month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateurandy Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 I use Rednet, based in High Wycombe, used them for maybe 10 years now. Check out www.red.net They specialise in small-medium businesses but are OK for home users too. Not sure what their setup charges are for Broadband as I migrated from a dial-up account, but the monthly charges are, I think actually slightly less than BT, about £250pa plus the dreaded VAT that many of you can reclaim. And they have excellent tech support available 8am to 8pm on an 0845 number. Beat that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 I'm using Pipex solo 500 at the moment. 512/256k, 50:1 contention, 12 mailboxes and webspace (50Mb I think). All for about £23.50 a month. Reliability is good, a couple of 'planned maintenance' outages but that's all in the last 12 months. I avoided the "free modem" offer as it's not really free and I've seen them cause more trouble than they're worth, (which isn't much). Best peice of advice for anyone signing up is get a wires only package and buy a cheap ethernet router, far better all round. We also use various Legend packages for our clients and have found them to be reliable too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Electrics Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 Never had any problem with my Modem and I swaped back after using a ADSL router Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 Never had any problem with my Modem and I swaped back after using a ADSL router 19600[/snapback] You're one of the lucky few then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adrian Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 B) I,ve no idea about the techy side of ADSL but I will be going live with broad band on the 10th Aug (512/256k) Cost me £19.95 per month and no minimun contract with Telecom Plus Adrian B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dale Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 That sounds pretty good Adrian, have you got a web address for them? And can you write a review for us to tell us what you think of it when its been installed? D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morph Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 We also have Pipex(512/256) at home, found there lack of communictation a bit disheartening when setting it up. But the service has been very reliable and no problems at all with the modem. Colin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dale Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Here is a good site for finding info about ISP's: ISP Review UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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