Please advise good ISP

gazfocus

I am soon going to be moving house and while I currently have Virgin 50Mb broadband, this is not available in the area that I am moving to.

So...can anyone recommend a good ISP? I am thinking about getting Sky TV and wondered if anyone has any comments on their broadband - obviously TV, Broadband and Calls for £28 a month seems very tempting, and I know I will notice a huge difference between that and the 50Mb I have now, but any comments other than speed differences would be great.

Thanks in advance

penrhyn

If your exchange has been LLU'd by Sky and you live close to it you may be able to get 20Mbps.
Before you start check your local exchange for LLU operators on the Samknows website.

The offer you are looking at is for Everyday Broadband up to 10Mbps with a 10 Gb cap.

gazfocus

penrhyn wrote: »

If your exchange has been LLU'd by Sky and you live close to it you may be able to get 20Mbps.
Before you start check your local exchange for LLU operators on the Samknows website.

The offer you are looking at is for Everyday Broadband up to 10Mbps with a 10 Gb cap.

Apparently, the house is 3768m away from the exchange. Just got this from Samknows:

LLU operator presence What is this?
AOL: Enabled
O2 / Be: Enabled
C&W / Bulldog: Enabled as of 13/06/2006
Edge Telecom: Not available
Entanet: Not available
Lumison: Not available
NewNet: Not available
Node4: Not available
Orange: Enabled as of 20/01/2010
Pipex: Not available
Sky / Easynet: Enabled as of 11/01/2007
Smallworld: Not available
TalkTalk (CPW): Enabled
Tiscali: Enabled as of 07/03/2008
Tiscali TV: Enabled
WB Internet: Not available
Zen Internet: Not available

Sunnyday

Can you look up where the nearest exchange is in relation to your new home? Then you could look at what ISP`s have their equipment in there.

I`ve recently moved from sky to O2 and its great, much faster than sky was. Our exchange has quite a few different choices and i`m assuming that as O2 is faster their equipment is newer and more advanced than sky`s. Could be wrong in that assumption but my speed has increased dramatically. I`ve an O2 mobile which gives me half price broadband with them too.


HTH

SD

EDIT beat me to it

dylanuk

gazfocus wrote: »

I am soon going to be moving house and while I currently have Virgin 50Mb broadband, this is not available in the area that I am moving to.

So...can anyone recommend a good ISP? I am thinking about getting Sky TV and wondered if anyone has any comments on their broadband - obviously TV, Broadband and Calls for £28 a month seems very tempting, and I know I will notice a huge difference between that and the 50Mb I have now, but any comments other than speed differences would be great.

Thanks in advance

Assuming you have Virgin XXL broadband because you like using the Internet a lot... Sky broadband may actually be one of the best alternatives for you.

Sky Unlimited broadband (£10/mth with Sky TV and Sky Talk Freetime (a free evening & weekend call plan)) is the only other broadband package that's completely unlimited - the other one being Virgin XXL.

As you've got Sky LLU enabled at your exchange and you want Sky TV - I don't think you'd go far wrong with Sky Unlimited broadband.

If you decide against getting Sky TV though, check out Be or O2 broadband - who are both very good with providing actually unlimited use and good speeds with no speed throttling or high congestion.

gazfocus

Sunnyday wrote: »

Can you look up where the nearest exchange is in relation to your new home? Then you could look at what ISP`s have their equipment in there.

I`ve recently moved from sky to O2 and its great, much faster than sky was. Our exchange has quite a few different choices and i`m assuming that as O2 is faster their equipment is newer and more advanced than sky`s. Could be wrong in that assumption but my speed has increased dramatically. I`ve an O2 mobile which gives me half price broadband with them too.


HTH

SD

EDIT beat me to it

Thanks for all your advice. May look into that o2 deal you mention - my mobile is with o2 (PAYG though - does that make a difference?).

It's a shame that the standard package with Sky is 2Mb but I've noticed if you take it off the package, you don't get a discount so not sure what to do.

Sunnyday

gazfocus wrote: »

Thanks for all your advice. May look into that o2 deal you mention - my mobile is with o2 (PAYG though - does that make a difference?).

It's a shame that the standard package with Sky is 2Mb but I've noticed if you take it off the package, you don't get a discount so not sure what to do.

Any O2 mobile will do, it entitles you to the offer. I pay £7 and pence for the broadband(sorry can`t remember the exact pence) which runs at around 6meg even when its at peak times, my sky NEVER used to do this, i know that it will depend on your line quality but i couldn`t believe the difference. The O2 package is unlimited too whereas sky altered their allowances so that to get unlimited you had to pay more.

Look at cashback sites too for offers as i got paid £50 through quidco to switch.

SD

Jonny0000

Good reading and advice.

I am also looking to move my broadband, I intend to move away from Virgin because of the TV package. I must say the Broadband is probably the best I have had and despite what others say support is good too IMO.

My problem is other providers. I will not enter into another contract with BT so any package needing separate land line rental is out.

What are the options? Does anyone use orange mobile BB and how is this for online gaming?

penrhyn

LLU Local loop unbundling.

If you are 3.5 kilometers from the exchange then you will only be able to get 6-7Mbps with ADSL, if speed is important to you then you'd best stick with Virgin.
http://www.skyuser.co.uk/adsl2_checker.php
Skys 2Mbps offer is very limited.

gazfocus

penrhyn wrote: »

LLU Local loop unbundling.

If you are 3.5 kilometers from the exchange then you will only be able to get 6-7Mbps with ADSL, if speed is important to you then you'd best stick with Virgin.
http://www.skyuser.co.uk/adsl2_checker.php
Skys 2Mbps offer is very limited.

Thanks, that is a useful tool, however, as I said, Virgin is not available in the area I am moving to.