MaXsteri Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 I have 30days to find another ISP as i being chucked off of Pipex for overuse (finally) ^_^ I'm looking for a 2Mb connection (or faster), unlimited downloads, cheap as possible. Who is everyone with and which ISP's are good atm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat hudson Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 theres 8 meg from wanadoo for 14.99 a month ^_^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 UKonline and Bulldog are the only people without line usage restrictions. 8mb with bulldog is around £38 a month, so 2mb should be around £15 a month or something. Wanadoo? There utterly wank. Check this out. Standard User - £14.99 for the first six months (then £17.99 a month) 2GB data usage per month Active User - £22.99 6GB data usage per month Heavy User - £27.99 30GB data usage per month 8mb with only 2gb a month? Who are they kidding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat hudson Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 (edited) nevermind ^_^ Edited October 20, 2005 by mat hudson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Erm.... as bad as it sounds, you might wanna look at AOL.. they dont cap anything, and are pretty cheap. You can set up your modem to keep a constant connection so you dont need to use their crappy software to connect. Saying that, otherwise I do hate aol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMonkey Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 I have wanadoo, but I had it when Freeserve were around. Bout 3 years ago is when I got it. 576kbps no caps, fwahahahaha, asked if I could get upgraded to a faster connection and they said yes but they'd have to cap it ^_^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Oh yeah... if you can get telewest (now taken over by NTL) I think theyre planning on 10mb lines for £35 a month no cap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 8mb with bulldog is around £38 a month, ^_^ Ours is only £25 per month. But their customer service sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicH_87 Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 is 8mb a pretty standard speed nowadays then? i've had 2mb upgrade from BT for nearly a year and thought it was still the pretty common speed to have. paying around £30 for 2mb with 30gb cap (never notice the cap ever) and decent service seemed decent enough but reading this has chanegd my mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMonkey Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 These people are doing 24MB, no caps, not sure who I'll find out ASAP ^_^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si-man Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Oh yeah... if you can get telewest (now taken over by NTL) I think theyre planning on 10mb lines for £35 a month no cap. Mate has already got that. Im supposed to be gettin upgraded to 5mb broadband with telewest, not sure though ^_^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMonkey Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Linkerlicious to Be Put in your phone number and it'll tell you if you can get it. ADSL-2 I believe, or something along htose lines. It's a Swedish company. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spangler Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 (edited) I'm on telewest with a 500something connection that is having a free upgrade to 2mb I pay £15 a month Dont have to have a phone line and they gave me free cable tv for a year :P And no caps what so ever Go telewest Edited October 20, 2005 by spangler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan6061 Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Erm.... as bad as it sounds, you might wanna look at AOL.. they dont cap anything, and are pretty cheap. You can set up your modem to keep a constant connection so you dont need to use their crappy software to connect. Saying that, otherwise I do hate aol. How do you do that? I've made a connection so I don't need to use the software, but I still havr to dial it. I want always on :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si-man Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 When is telewest being upgraded then?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siders77 Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 (edited) Sometime this month/beginning of next month. I think. EDIT: Just looked at the letter we got, it's from Blueyonder so I don't know if that's the same as Telewest? :P Edited October 20, 2005 by Siders77 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si-man Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Mines wireless blueyonder from telewest i think, sounds good :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siders77 Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Ah right cool... On the letter it says- 512kb(I think) being upgraged to 1MB 1MB being upgraded to 2MB 2MB beight upgraded to 4MB and 4 MB being upgraded to 10MB :P What speed do you have now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spangler Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Mines connected all the time :P the letter i got says my 512kb is going up to 2mb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaXsteri Posted October 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 For far its looks like UKOnline then. My main choices were UKOnline and Zen, I was a little sceptical of UKOnline though because it is half the price of Zen for exactly the same service, and is a 12month contract. Ideally i would like to avoid a commitment that long as i have had some shocking ISP's in the past. As for 24Mb ADSL-2, apparently that will be available on my exchange from February so would kind of screw with the 12month UKOnline commitment? Although saying that i'm sure it will be ludicrously expensive when it comes out, and i very rarely max out my 2Mb as it is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMonkey Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 As for 24Mb ADSL-2, apparently that will be available on my exchange from February so would kind of screw with the 12month UKOnline commitment? Although saying that i'm sure it will be ludicrously expensive when it comes out, and i very rarely max out my 2Mb as it is Gonna be mainly for us super nerdy gamers first, who want the edge :P Or you can download you porno 48x as fast if you're me :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Gonna be mainly for us super nerdy gamers first, who want the edge :P Or you can download you porno 48x as fast if you're me :P That's bollocks though, your ping time (what you need to care about) may be worse on a 24meg line than on a 576k line. And even for general web browsing there are very few sites/servers that you can take advantage of (even with my 3meg). I would much rather have a 1meg line with a decent ping and no bandwidth limitations... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMonkey Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Actually, if the upload speed is greater than that of the other connections (which it most likely will be as in Sweden they are and this is a Swedish company so you put 1+1 together) it'll equal better pings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Actually, if the upload speed is greater than that of the other connections (which it most likely will be as in Sweden they are and this is a Swedish company so you put 1+1 together) it'll equal better pings. That isn't always the case. There is line latency and packet loss to consider. Then there is also distance to exchange and what atlantic carries you use, and of course where the server is actually located. I know of atleast two examples from my old clan where someone went from 300k to 1mb and there ping got like 40% worse to the same UK server. Hell, i know some people who went from 56k to 512k and experienced worse average pings. Personally, i'm holding out for SDSL, as i dislike the idea of downloading at 24mb, but still having to upload at 1mb. Shame UK is so far behind everyone else. Sweden is currently the leader i believe, a friend just got 100mbit for 35€ a month. Yes, thats euros. They've also had 10mb SDSL for atleast 2 years now, and for a fraction of the cost of UK basic 1mb/2mb lines. Also funny to see how its a swedish company pushing our internet forward and not UK ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMonkey Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 :lol: Simon, you completely lost me there. But as you know you shiz 99% of the time I shall agree. I agree with Simon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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