Hi all....
After getting a BT line on 29th December, I need broadband back....
Can someone recommend a provider that :
1) doesn't supply a modem, got one thanx!
2) doesn't have an activation fee if possible, and does short contracts...
3) doesn't cap your broadband if possible!!!
I was on NTL before with no probs.....
CHeers!!!!
Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!
What about Central Point
Central Point Broadband
- Richman
you wont find a short contract provider without an activation fee m'afriad.
however I can't recommend Zen strongly enough - their service is excellent and apart from activation , they cover all of the above.
they are contrantly rated #1 uk ADSL ISp for a very good reason
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Don't go Central point, they appear to be having huge bandwidth issues at the moment as they are a datastream service, (hence don't use much/any of the BT backbone) luke313 on here is having huge issues with them and after some research reading their forums and other complaints i wouldn't touch central point with a barge pole.
Nildram(now pipex), pipex, Zen, Eclipse are all good providers
TiG
-- Hexus Meets Rock! --
Cheers gents....will take a look later!
Any more for any more???
Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!
Bulldog
www.bulldogbroadband.com
HEXUS|iMc
How bad are the problems with central point? I was thinking about using them
as dirt cheap and short contract etc.... my gf is only on 56 K is it worse then that?
Well of a daytime it is absolutely fine - download at speeds of 100+KB/s etc, but once it gets to peak hours I am stuffed - try to play any online games with pings lower than 150, and downloading is at 30KB/s, not what I expect from a 1mbit service TBH
Yeap another vote for bulldog hereOriginally Posted by iMc
Heres a speed-test for my line and its not too bad seeing as my exchange is up the swanny according to samknows
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/sp...60c6eda4461adc
The only problem with BD is the Customer Services... or lack of it really but if your tech savvy then you'll have no real issues. I've only had to contact BD once - via email with a few tracerts and graphs showing the packet loss and issues @ my exchange and within 4 days BT had an engineer out to see what the issue was.
How do you exactly find out how far your exchange is from you? I got the town name but that means nothing in my book.
Is that with CPBB? I am exactly the same!Well of a daytime it is absolutely fine - download at speeds of 100+KB/s etc, but once it gets to peak hours I am stuffed - try to play any online games with pings lower than 150, and downloading is at 30KB/s, not what I expect from a 1mbit service TBH
Have a look at my thread about it:
http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=35318
www.samknows.com
Great Site with lots of ADSL information and lots of tools
Plusnet have been great for me!
Chers thats just what i'm looking for - seem i can throw stones at it, it's that close.
I'm on the 1Mb CPBB and get no problems what so everWell of a daytime it is absolutely fine - download at speeds of 100+KB/s etc, but once it gets to peak hours I am stuffed - try to play any online games with pings lower than 150, and downloading is at 30KB/s, not what I expect from a 1mbit service TBH
last night about 7pm i downloaded a 200Mb update for GTR @ ~96kbps, installed it and immediately went and played the game online - it was smoothe as, ping between 55-90 on Dutch servers.
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