Posted by leeboy13
Hey all, been with ntl for two years now and am paying £17.99 a month for a 1 meg connection.... im sure this aint such a good deal and was wondering if anyone new of a better package? weve got freeview but if cable or something could be in for a good price i reckon we'd consider
Any help at all is great guys....
Im asking coz i now were gonna be staying put for just over about 12 months and its a perfect oppertunity to sort it out. I know i'll only end up getting robbed otherwise
**to add just saw this on the net.... should i phone ntl and be on hold for ever?
hope u can make it out****
Have a good night all
Lee
[ This Message was edited by: leeboy13 on 2006-06-08 22:01 ]
Posted by leeboy13
Bulldogs deal is good
http://www.bulldogbroadband.c[....]al/products/broadband/8meg.asp
Basically its
£19.50 for 8 meg braodband with unlimited download usage.... Also with this you get McAfee Internet Sercurity Suite for a year.
Id that a good deal and a good internet security package?
Cheers
Posted by Luke-the-magic-man
yep, but not everyone can get it, I cant get it as although I live like a mile from the BB place its not avalible in my aera...
Posted by kk.226
lol you getting ripped off?! I'm paying £25 a month for 1meg
Posted by leeboy13
@kk
whos that with mate?
Posted by kk.226
AOL... *Blushes*
Posted by leeboy13
mate, i think this would of been benificial to you but seems no-one here uses broadband, bummer eh?!
Posted by fatreg
i use pipex.
never let me down so far,
pay like £23 a month or something silly for 2mb.
may pay over the odds but ive been connected solidly for like 1 year thro my wireless router...
fatreg
Posted by leeboy13
@fatreg
thats not bad if its reliable mate. ntl are not very reliable where i am.....
but its good to have a few to consider, thanks for the info
Posted by fatreg
i used to have wanadoo and they were poo, always down for no reason at all. but pipex has been reliable.
my old dear uses BT. seems ok but again not cheap.
fatreg
Posted by london-uk
I use BT 2 mbit. Until recently it was ok. Suddenly the speed (during office hours) was down to dial-up speeds. Anyway, after much research I found out that this is due to BT's contention ratio, and the recent addition of a new office just next door to me.
Contention ratio basically illustrates how many other people you share your connection with. The theory is that everyone is not online at the same time, therefore BT (and other companies) share the line between consumers. Therefore, you may have signed up for 2mbit speed, but if you share the connection with twenty other people, your speed could potentially be less than 100kb (and in reality much lower).
I have been speaking with BT practically every day for the past two weeks. They have yet to even acknowledge "contention ratio" when I speak to them.
The conversation has been going as follows: I call BT and tell them the problem. I ask them what my contention ratio is. At this point, they either refuse to discuss CR, or they tell me that I need to speak with "tech support". Then, a couple of days later I get a call from "Tech support" saying that they are happy that my problem has been resolved. Like f**k it has been resolved. This cycle actually repeated itself 3 times.
I have tried everything, but I can't get BT to acknowledge contention ratios. I know they are crooks, but I really hope more people learn this soon.
Posted by WelshTom
exactly right there is a lot more to a good broadband connection than just the advertised speeds. contention ratio is extremely inportant and many of the mainstream and cheap broadband provider give terrible contention ratios when you scratch the surface of their deals. also some of the down time from certain providers is terrible.
I recommend Demon - something like £19 for 2meg conection. Very good contention ratio and in 8 months i have never had any down time at all - apart from when bt managed to bugger the local exchange.
Tom
Posted by leeboy13
thanks for your input guys
Is bulldog any good? anyone with any experience with them?
Otherwise i will probably look into demon
Posted by haynesycop
I am with pipex nearly 2 years now and i started on 512mb for £70 per quarter! (i decided to pay quarterly instead of monthly)
I got upgraded to 1meg and now i have been getting speeds equivalent for 2meg for around 6 months maybe more.
Very reliable indeed!
I wanted to go to 8meg and there is a guy from work who lives about 8 doors down the road who is with ntl on 8meg but i go online to ntl website and i can only get 2meg WTF?
Also if i went with bulldog can you choose just to have the broadband and not the phones as my grandad is with bt and he will not move!
Posted by p900 lover
Im with ukonline and i think they are really good, havnt been down since i started with them in November, for 8mb i may £24.99 not bad i think
oh anf for 22mb i would pay £30.00
Posted by leeboy13
Thx miss C AND p900 Lover
Its actually fairly interesting to see what everyones on... and what the ebst deal is/could be.... thanks for this peeps, it will make making a decision a lot easier as i wont just be tempted by big numbers ie: 8meg, 20 meg..........
Cheers all, i'll let you know what i get etc
probably sort soemthing out over the wekend or early next week...
All the best
Lee
Posted by Jools
I use Plus.net http://www.plus.net/residential/broadband/
Their packages start at £9.99 a month for up to 8mb (with PAYG data transfer rates 0.224p per MB) up to £21.99 a month with no fixed download limits.
They also give fairly generous web-space on their 14.99 and 21.99 packages.
Posted by leeboy13
nice one jools... the choices are getting bigger so will have to have a good look at these
thx all
Posted by awave
we have f2s specialist ipconnect? 512k d/l speed is about 70kbps for 27.99 per month - its not on the website any more i dont think...and i know you can get better deals, but not the ratio thingy. there normal home broadband packages could go really slow...whenever. also the very cheap (e.g. tesco) broadband deals, are not sutible for p2p and gaming - they have some way of stopping it
dunno how - anyone?
awave