Which Isp?

Post by **_RS_** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:47 pm

As a few of you already know i'm having just a few problems with Virgin ADSL

I've been looking around for a month or so trying to pick another ISP for when i finally work the MAC out of them without forkin a fee for the effort. Only 1 i've come up with that looks half decent is <a href="http://adsl24.co.uk/broadband_home.php" target="_blank">ADSL24</a> which only has a months contract on it so they've got themselves some confidence.. also their on the enta network i believe.

Anyone had any experience with?
Who are you with?
Whats the cost?
Fixed speed or upto 8Mb?
what are the pings like?

Is there a download cap? if so how much?

Please help theres so much to look for

Post by **Eagle** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:50 pm

I'm with NTL, have been for donkeys

On the 4 meg package and generally don't get any problems

Post by **_RS_** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:52 pm

Eagle wrote: I'm with NTL, have been for donkeys
On the 4 meg package and generally don't get any problems

Thats cable

Cant get that around here, only ADSL. Plus now all the cable companies have been taken over by virgin anyway

Post by **Nellyboy** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:06 am

I am with Be There or Be Unlimited. The speed depends how far you are from the exchange. Me, I am approx 1km away and get between 7 & 8 mb connection. Has been solid since the first week when it was too fast and they had to throttle it a bit to stop the router from fryin.

I up at 60 24/7 dl at up to 800+.

Â£24 a month

Oh, when I game I slow my upload to 30 and dl to same no ping probs.

Post by **madman045** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:22 am

Currently with Entanet, work pay for it as were a reseller, but its Â£35 + VAT per month being a business package

24/7 support, Im on the ADSL Max Premium package, sync at 8120 down and 832 up and I get the full 8mb most days, also a 20:1 contention ratio, my download limits are
45GB peak time and 300GB offpeak

So far not had any real issues.

Andy

Post by **CocoPops** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:25 am

I'm with Sky on their "Max" package and pay Â£10 (I use their TV service anyway).

I sync at 8190 and 764, so 8mb down.

All good so far.

Post by **Rasputin** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:31 pm

I just use good old BT ADSL which is fine 8 mb down 3/4mb up. I have no issues

Post by **Legthigh** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:55 pm

Give Zen a try mate, you won't regret it!

Post by **_RS_** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:18 pm

Inoshishi wrote: Give Zen a try mate, you won't regret it!

Heard a few bad things about Zen lately, speeds getting worse etc

work will end soon

Post by **Legthigh** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:37 pm

_RS_ wrote: Heard a few bad things about Zen lately, speeds getting worse etc

work will end soon

They've been fantastic for me for the last couple of years, I won't be switching ISP anytime soon.

Post by **DjXs** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:05 pm

Ive been with pipex and both Zen , both were good but introduced there Fair Usage Policy and capped your downloads etc

I switched to VivaCiti a few months ago and i must say im impressed

best isp ive been with so far.

VivaCiti is part of the Entanet group.

Post by **Clingy** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:18 pm

I'm still with Zen....not jinxed them yet Ginge

I am getting close to my 50GB d/l limit every month. Speeds can be misleading as it's all down to the BT wires and exchange although I am surprised to see peeps getting the full 8MB on ADSLMax...do you live in the exchange? Even BT say that in practice 7.2 is the most you will ever get. I'm supposed to be 5.5MB but don't think in practice it works out that well, but with 4 PC's in the house it's difficult to tell

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Post by **President Gas** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:24 pm

Nah m8 - you want a joystick.

Post by **_RS_** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:29 pm

Clingy wrote: I'm still with Zen....not jinxed them yet Ginge

I am getting close to my 50GB d/l limit every month. Speeds can be misleading as it's all down to the BT wires and exchange although I am surprised to see peeps getting the full 8MB on ADSLMax...do you live in the exchange? Even BT say that in practice 7.2 is the most you will ever get. I'm supposed to be 5.5MB but don't think in practice it works out that well, but with 4 PC's in the house it's difficult to tell .

1.5Km from exchange

Item Downstream Upstream Unit
SNR Margin 10 27 dB
Line Attenuation 33 21 dB
Data Rate 8128 448 kbps

Sync rate is as high as it can go and i think my profile is 7000 but they predicted 6500 on line tests.

Test Complete - 3.00 MB file downloaded in 3.741 seconds
Download Rate Format
6569.37 Kbps (kilobits per second)
821.17 KBps (kilobytes per second)
6.42 Mbps (megabits per second)
0.8 MBps (megabytes per second)

Good day

But back to topic I cant get 'Be' here already looked into them but think its probably even more likely to give trouble in the long run, ADSL2/2+ is surposed to be a bit more touchy from what i've read.

Been thinking about Zen, Madman just yelled NOOOOOOOOO at the mention of Pipex so guess their off the board. As for Enta I think their stricktly wholesale, ADSL24 iI still thinks kinda interesting n no real tie in's and still on Enta network but i think everywhere has some kind of cap these days

possibles: Zen & ADSL24

Thanks for all your help

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>President Gas Posted Today, 04:24 PM
Nah m8 - you want a joystick. </div>

WTF?

Post by **Clingy** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:36 pm

Stuff of Legends RS