BROADBAND!HELP PLEASE!

ccfc.id

hi, broadband is coming available in my area in a couple of weeks, and i am going to get it as i use the internet all the time, i was wondering what is the best provider and fastest connection, i have looked on asdl guide and found that pipex, Freedom 2 Surf PLC,Boltblue broadband and supanet are some good providers, so please any ideas and views on the best speed and good value broadband, im looking for 512mb or 1mb(depends on £££ of 1mb) thanks alot

joshm_2

https://www.adslguide.org.uk is (or at least was) good at helping with this sort of decision. Personally, I'm with Zen - not the cheapest price perhaps but the customer service and technical reliability is A1. And you get static IP addresses.

getmeoutofhere

I've been on Pipex for 18 months and had no problems at all, very good service.

Not quite as competitive as they used to be - £23.44 for 512kbps, but quality service.

mhuk

When working out the "cheapest" take into account the price of set-up, price of an adsl modem/ router and length of contract. Work it out over a 12 month period to get a true cost (TCO). Adslguide is the best site and has a very vocal forum.

monki_man

Pipex is very good, i had no problems with them, ive as ive got mates living in the same house we so split the internet bill and it worked out £15/mth for 1st 3 mths and after £20/mth. and thats like 4 times fasted than 512k. So it depends if your sharing the line with anyone else at home.

peter_the_piper

Based on my recent experience Metronet are one of the best. They work on a minimum charge (about 11.75) for the first 200meg then max £22.75 for over 4.3gig. never got to this yet, average about £16.00 per month (family of 3, on all day)
Whichever you choose if is imperative that you are fully covered by antivirus/firewall and spyware programs (up to date) Don't go on line later to get them, get a trustedand protected) friend to do so and put them on a CD for you, it only takes seconds for you to get infected.

mike_paterson

E7even are great - I've been with them for about 3-4 months now. I paid £200 for a year in advance (got the connection fee free on a deal they were doing) - equates to £16.66 per month. This gives me 512kbps ADSL (1M available) uncapped (i.e now limit to amount of data you can download). They also give you a static ip-address (this is good and other isps generally charge for this as an extra). They also will register and host a .uk domain name free of charge too !

I have emailed their support with a couple of questions and their response has been the fastest of ANY company I have ever had cause to email !

I have had no downtime at all - I am generally using the link for 12 -14 hours per day.

In short - highly recommended. They generally do special deals - free modem, extra free months free etc - so look out for them. I post the specials on my referral link in my signature below .

If you , or anybody signs up using my referral code, I'll split the £20 referral with you too so you earn a tenner as well !