best ISP?

[Turkey]

Anyone got any suggestions? Want to get broadband at home.

Looked at pipex but it gave me a bit of a headache. All geared to making you get a phone line with them too. I'm sure its a good deal but its an extra headache because the parents may get annoyed about having to change things (can you keep your existing number?). I dont really want them to be involved at all. They pay the phone bill, I use my mobile, simple. I just want to plug into the phone line and be online. So maybe going with BT will just be easier. And then all these hubs and antivirus stuff they go on about. I dont need em, my PCs been online before at Uni, just need to plug it in.

 

[Cian]

The "home hub" from BT is entirely essential to get a PC online - its the DSL modem! The antivirus doesn't come with teh entry level package.

 

[Turkey]

The "home hub" from BT is entirely essential to get a PC online - its the DSL modem! The antivirus doesn't come with teh entry level package.

I had broadband at my student house. In built modem I think. I just plugged in the cable and it was fine. Why should I need another modem?

 

[wehatepalace]

I use sky wireless and i find it very good. Good customer service too.
Never had any problems with speed either

 

[Cian]

I had broadband at my student house. In built modem I think. I just plugged in the cable and it was fine. Why should I need another modem?

That was by Ethernet. Broadband over a phone line uses ADSL. No computers have built in ADSL modems*, you either use a USB ADSL modem or an Ethernet DSL router. The Home Hub is both - as well as a wireless router



*well, one or two do, but they don't work with the UK DSL network, only the Irish/German/US one

 

[Turkey]

Righto. Does this get much more complicated if two other computers and different rooms wanted access too.

 

[wehatepalace]

My sky router has 4 ethernet port thingies so can't be any different to 1 ...................can it ??

 

[Turkey]

ah okay so 3 cables from one box should do the trick.

Also, TalkTalk, anygood? Apparantly my uncle got it and its good for him

 

[Hiney]

Righto. Does this get much more complicated if two other computers and different rooms wanted access too.

It would probably make it EASIER. I've got a BT Hub (it's one of the business ones but the principle is the same). I run my PC off it by ethernet (wired) and the other 4 PCs wirelessly.

I have to say that I've always had pretty good service from BT

 

[wehatepalace]

Guess Thats right . re. talk talk heard bad things about them :delays in getting connected, bad customer service, etc etc but may be better now. i'm sure MYOB will know more !

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

we use bt home hub. its the BALLS

 

[Turkey]

What the hell are WiFi minutes?

 

[Bluejuice]

Orange sort us out nicely.

For a fiver a month we get UNLIMITED 8mb broadband all day every day and in the 9 months we've been using it the service hasn't been interrupted one single time.

I used to really rate Pipex too but they seem to have changed a lot from the great company they once were to just another modern bandwagon jumper.

Go Orange, be happy

 

[seven stands]

i use virgin tv phone and broadband £30

can get tinternet on its own i think and its unlimited

 

[Fungus]

Avoid Pipex - gone way downhill (speed and service). Talk Talk and Tiscali always get bad press. We've just moved to Zen, they seem to know what they are doing.

 

[dougdeep]

http://www.top10-broadband.co.uk/

 

[Yorkie]

We were Pipex broadband and Talk Talk phone but have now changed to Tiscali for both because it saved us £20 a month.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

best ISP featured in which magazine recently - I'll see if I've still got the mag

 

[Rookie]

personally avoid talk talk and Tesco caused loads of hassle. Currently using Tiscali and all been good so far

 

[Gazwag]

freedom2surf - 100% satisfied, had it for two and a half years