Which Home Broadband provider?

[dancingdruid]

btw if you are out of the minimum contract period on Virgin media broadband (cable) phone up and speak to retentions with details of a cheaper rival (eg sky). I've had half price broadband for nearly a year now and I've just renewed the half price deal for a further 6 months.

 

As Tesco say - every little helps :-)

[Hybrid]

Any Enta reseller is worth looking at.

 

I'd also like to say PlusNet. CS is spot on and they are quite proactive (for instance they noticed my line had a lot of sync drops for a period and they actually rang me to check things over. They have also just activated another segment of a 622mbit pipe. :-)

[kearton]

I use Zen and would recommend to others. No traffic shaping either.

Like has been said before, not the cheapest, but you get what you pay for.

[sidewinder]

If you are in a Virgin area I see no reason to waste time with 'upto' xxMB ADSL when you can pay a bit more and get guaranteed speeds with Virgin

 

Needless to say - I'm on Virgin

[nicholab]

Be unlimited I am syncing at 11/1.3 meg

 

You get a VOIP router in that price with good wireless.

[gwendes]

But you need to live in London

 

Portsmouth is getting 20MB Virgin this month and my house purchase down there is almost complete - can't wait to nearly triple my connection speed

[Geoff]

But you need to live in London

 

No Be are rolling out outside London now (admittedly slowly).

[tom_newton]

We have Be here in subnny leeds. Actually I lie - it's chucking it down, but we do have Be. Syncs at something in the region of 7/1.5 which is bloody good considering our distance from the exchange. For those that know the area we're close to Elland Rd., and the exchange is over the hill in Armley, a good 3 miles I reckon.

 

Check out samknows.com - it seems Be have a rather large number of exchanges now:

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/llu-league.php?status=2&type=be&sortfield=ex.name&sortorder=ASC

[plock]

I'm currently using Virgin, I'm on their 20MB package, and must say, I only ever see a maximum speed of 10MB!

[gwendes]

@plock - What upload speed do you achieve?

 

How have you tested that the 20MB service is switched on and available?

[plock]

@plock - What upload speed do you achieve?

 

How have you tested that the 20MB service is switched on and available?

 

I'm using: http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/speedtest/

 

It's normally quite accurate...

[gwendes]

uploads?

 

I'll be moving to a 20Mb area this month hopefully

[plock]

Sorry, yeah have seen an increase speed with uploads.

[gwendes]

LOL - this is an old thread to revive, I know! I've actually moved though! Since June I've had another house fall through and now, finally, I've moved back out of my parents into a new house with new broadband - connected the first day and averaging 12-15Mbps...

 

Uploads are at a steady 760kbps