Which home broadband do you reccomend?

Another vote for BT. Their Openzone is handy for me travelling and I've had no problems for several years now. Line speed is crap but that's coz of where I live and the fact they can't be bothered their ass to invest.
 
ancient_mariner said:
I've been with wanadoo/orange/EE for a LONG time - been a couple of faults over the years, usually due to BT's hardware, and they've been fine. I bought my own routers because I'm at the end of a long copper wire, and having a better router gave me more speed than any change of ISP could.
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I've been with them since it was freeserve and we still had a freeserve email address. No probls when they changed to wanadoo and thence orange. We then had a mobile phone deal which included free 2 meg BB at the time and we carried on with this. A while back, they wanted to stop offering it and charge us for the privilege, at which point I decided to immediately abandon ship and went for Plusnet.
 
Tesco Broadband - UK service centre and solved issues with hours instead of days with BT. I did look at PlusNet as well (they are owned by BT) in the end Tesco's gave us a great deal.
 
I have Sky fibre optic, I normally get around 35mb download and 10mb upload on wireless, but if I connect to the router with a cable I get 50mb.
My laptops are wireless, but my "main" PC is connected with a cable.
Never had a problem with Sky, and usually when the contract is about to end (I have TV, phone and tv) I call them, say I'm thinking of leaving, and they give me something free for 6 months to encourage me to stay !!
Works for me.
 
I've been with aaisp since 2000 and they have always been pretty good - I like the way the do NOT offer an "unlimited" service as this will likely lead to a congested network. My ping time is normally 10ms or less on speedtest.net and I don't get annoying "slowdowns" at "peak" periods like some of the mass market isps get affected by.
 
boliston said:
I like the way the do NOT offer an "unlimited" service as this will likely lead to a congested network.
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Conversely, not having unlimited doesn't mean you will necessarily have no congestion (an ISP who needs to manage often means an ISP who has limited internal bandwidth). They make you pay though - A&A are even more expensive than my Clara.Net business service for my usage....
 
BRASH said:
Been with Talk Talk for donkeys years. Never had an issue (though some may say differently).
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Lucky you. I've been with them for 3 years and I've had more than my fair share of problems. I can't count the times I've been on Xbox live playing Halo/Call of Duty/Assassins Creed multiplayer games and TalkTalk has lost my connection to the game session. I think TalkTalk are rubbish.

My parents are with sky and they have had some problems in the past.

To the OP I would say avoid TalkTalk. I'm only with them because they are the cheapest around and I'm on a budget.
If money were not an issue I would switch to PlusNet. Unlike BT they're not interested in providing a TV service and unlike Virgin they're not interested in banking or flying you across the Atlantic. PlusNet focus on only one thing, supplying you with a connection to the internet. This is why they always rate high on independent tests.

Another one is Clara Net. Like PlusNet they are not out to conquer the world in every field of technology under the sun, with dreams of becoming trillion dollar multi-national conglomerates. They just focus on providing quality internet connections. And just like PlusNet, Clara Net always rate high on independent tests.

That's my tuppence worth. Now I can shut up!
 
Been with Talk talk for years there great but if you have any problems your in bother .....
 
Started with Freeserve , many changes of ownership later and still with Talk Talk.

Most of the time it's very stable but agree their helpdesk makes a mockery of the word.

Very good value for money, my those A & A folk are taking the proverbial with their prices!
 
Mikesphotaes said:
....my those A & A folk are taking the proverbial with their prices!
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I would not say £40 per month for a reliable 80/20 fttc service inc 100GB/mth data download allowance is expensive when a lot of people pay more than that for a sky sub for example. One of my workmates pays about this for their BT fttc and often only get 40mb/s speed in the evening when they have an 80mb/s connection.
 
boliston said:
I would not say £40 per month for a reliable 80/20 fttc service inc 100GB/mth data download allowance is expensive when a lot of people pay more than that for a sky sub for example. One of my workmates pays about this for their BT fttc and often only get 40mb/s speed in the evening when they have an 80mb/s connection.
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So do they dig up the road to install the fibre doodah to us lesser mortals on string and cups?
 
Virgin Media, fast broadband no problems.....:clap:
 
Mark Christopher said:
Lucky you. I've been with them for 3 years and I've had more than my fair share of problems. I can't count the times I've been on Xbox live playing Halo/Call of Duty/Assassins Creed multiplayer games and TalkTalk has lost my connection to the game session. I think TalkTalk are rubbish.
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The talktalk backhaul is absolutely fine - fast, no latency issues and stable. That's the bit of the connection between the exchange and the ISP point of presence and is the C&W wholesale operation though, different from the retail bit that is the ISP.

My connection uses C&W (talktalk) backhaul and I have no problem with it, but talktalk are not my ISP. It is the retail talktalk ISP that has the bad reputation.

Mikesphotaes said:
Very good value for money, my those A & A folk are taking the proverbial with their prices!
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I pay them £20/month, although that will go up by a tenner when I organise myself to get FTTC. That gets me massively more "download" than I use.
 
In the end I went with BT using their 16mb unlimited package. I know it is not the cheapest but at the moment is more than fast enough for my needs and is reliable.
I'm getting much better speeds that I ever did with sky. I get a solid 14mb cabled and 10mb wireless.

I'm surprised Virgin don't have a cable running past your house - are you in a newish house?
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Our house is 22 years old so not that new. BT are promising their cable will be accessible to us in April 2014 but I had to move I could not bear to be with Sky broadband a minute longer.
 
thing is ISP are like hard drive manufacturers. youll always find horror stories about each one.

personally sky > BT. on a customer service and reliability level (unless you want to pay for the SLA'd BT lines).
 
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