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  • isofa
    isofa Posts: 6,091 Forumite
    If you are in a cabled area, then obviously Virgin cable is a good idea, as it's all fibre and potentially much faster than ADSL.

    If you can only get ADSL (via the phoneline), I'd echo fatnbald's advice, a quality ISP makes all the difference. Zen are fantastic, I get excellent speed and service from them. As with most things in life, you get what you pay for.

    Just check you distance from the exchange first, I don't know anyone who gets 8Mbps. Note it's megabits per second, not megabytes, often confused when people say "8 Meg".
  • ormus
    ormus Posts: 42,714 Forumite
    you cant get 8mb if the line wont support it, no matter which isp you use.
    you really need to move to cable to get really high speed.
    my son gets a genuine 16mb on his sky cable connection.

    i cannot get more than 4mb on my bt line. (bt says 8mb. no one here believes them).
    Get some gorm.
  • espresso
    espresso Posts: 16,448 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    ormus wrote: »
    you cant get 8mb if the line wont support it, no matter which isp you use.
    you really need to move to cable to get really high speed.
    my son gets a genuine 16mb on his sky cable connection.

    i cannot get more than 4mb on my bt line. (bt says 8mb. no one here believes them).

    Sky Max (up to 16Mb) is provided over a BT line using Sky LLU and ADSL2, not cable. Details here
    :doh: Blue text on this forum usually signifies hyperlinks, so click on them!..:wall:
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    you want you some of this :)
  • mdbarber
    mdbarber Posts: 1,116 Forumite
    II_D2_II wrote: »
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    you want you some of this :)

    oh dear god yes yes YESSSSSSS, got any rooms to rent?
    click here to achieve nothing!
  • oh dear god yes yes YESSSSSSS, got any rooms to rent?[/QUOTE]
    no but i may make soom room lol
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