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Want cheaper Broadband & Phone bills?
Crazy Jay - 17/12/04 at 03:57 PM

Check this out, i'm changing tomoro

Cheaper Broadband

Staple balls - 17/12/04 at 04:00 PM

or go to www.plus.net and get a good deal.

simonH - 17/12/04 at 04:28 PM

go to http://www.adslguide.org.uk for impartial advice

[Edited on 17/12/04 by simonH]

ChrisW - 17/12/04 at 04:31 PM

Or buy ADSL off me and get a super fast connection to this site! Cisco 7204 VXR and two Cisco 27xx series switches and you're there

512k £21.99
1MB £29.99
2MB £39.99

50:1, unlimited usage, fixed IP and hostname, webspace, email, and all the other crap.

Chris

[Edited on 17/12/04 by ChrisW]

James - 17/12/04 at 05:12 PM

Wonder if i can convince work to go with that?

If I could browse quicker then I can get on with the rest of my work quicker.

James

shortie - 17/12/04 at 06:03 PM

www.plus.net for me too

britishtrident - 17/12/04 at 07:40 PM

For anyone switching from Bt and normally payed by credit card change to direct debit before migration -- BT have a nasty habit of continuing to charge on credit cards after migration.
Also note that Tiscali have for a long period consistantly been rated below even BT , AOL and Wannadoo in customer ratings at the adslguide.org.uk --- that takes some doing.

Me ? I am with Zen and very happy--- no outages, dns servers that work, no lost mail, only a tiny ammount of spam. 8 static IPs a truly massive ammount of webspace and no caps on downloads. :-)

[Edited on 17/12/04 by britishtrident]

britishtrident - 17/12/04 at 08:17 PM

quote:
Originally posted by snoopy
ime fancying this anyone got it already
http://www.adsl4less.com/google/


Dificult tell if they are any good -- not listed by adslguide which means they are a small outfit --- which could be good or bad as generally the ISPs with the worst reputations are the very big ones. But to resell the BT Home product range at those prices the profit margin must be tiny and they charge little for setup/migration, to me the economics just don't make sense

It is really worth digging around at the adslguide site before switching ISP as the customer service from some big ISPs is truly appalling.

[Edited on 17/12/04 by britishtrident]

britishtrident - 17/12/04 at 08:28 PM

Metronet -- are worth looking at well rated and very interesting deals.

RoadkillUK - 17/12/04 at 08:31 PM

Crazy Jay, by some chance have you just got a job at Tiscali or have you bought stocks?

andyps - 17/12/04 at 11:37 PM

quote:
Originally posted by snoopy
ime fancying this anyone got it already
http://www.adsl4less.com/google/


I had just been looking into that one and wondering if it will be reliable. Seem to have a link to one of the domain name resellers who have been around for some time.

ChrisW - 19/12/04 at 06:34 PM

Notice there is no contention ratio mentioned on that site! I'd be wary.

It's worth noting - with the new capacity based charging model BT have introduced all broadband is definatly not the same. Make sure you check contention ratios at least - just because it's a 512k tail doesn't mean they have the capacity on their backbone. This is how the very cheap and 'capped' services work. Ideal if you're just sending the odd email and checking ebay once a week but for any serious user you will be disappointed.

Chris