Broadband & Telephone needed - which company

Xign

My broadband switched to TTtoday, a day early, than the go live sate, and my speed according to adslguide.org is 5.5mbp/s, which is the same as I had on Nildram.

P2P speeds are looking about the same too (100kbp/s on LimeWire)

maybe I'm a lucky one! lol

leon103

Been looking around and Tiscili look a decent price think its 2mb (which is the quickest in my area) for £14.99.

Anyone had experience with these?

BexTech

Tiscili and TalkTalk are the two worst broadband providers, both should be avoided.

leon103

Its looking like Pipex for broadband and Onetel for line rental.

Onetel - £9.99 line rental and free weekend call (although I won't be using the phone)

Pipex - £14.99 for upto 8mb (they said I can get 6mb on my line) 2GB limit which is enough for what I use the net for.

Any thoughts?

BexTech

OneTel - don't do it!

It's now part of TalkTalk, plus you really should only consider BT as your line rental provider.

leon103

BexTech wrote:

OneTel - don't do it!

It's now part of TalkTalk, plus you really should only consider BT as your line rental provider.

Why whats wrong with Onetel. Thats who my girlfriend was with. She never had any problems

BexTech

leon103 wrote:

Why whats wrong with Onetel. Thats who my girlfriend was with. She never had any problems

OneTel was great before British Gas took over and then sold it to TalkTalk.

Caller Display is free with BT, it is £1.50 per month extra with TalkTalk making their service dearer, you save very very little with talktalk.

You are much better off with BT for line rental, free caller display, then for no monthly charge Primus 2 for free evening and weekend calls, and then 1899 for the daytime calls at 3 pence each.

You can't sign up to OneTel anymore, it's now TalkTalk, signing up to TalkTalk will work out dearer than what you can get elsewhere, and compared to BT it is only minutely cheaper and then only if you make sure you avoid certain phone numbers.

leon103

BexTech wrote:

OneTel was great before British Gas took over and then sold it to TalkTalk.

Caller Display is free with BT, it is £1.50 per month extra with TalkTalk making their service dearer, you save very very little with talktalk.

You are much better off with BT for line rental, free caller display, then for no monthly charge Primus 2 for free evening and weekend calls, and then 1899 for the daytime calls at 3 pence each.

You can't sign up to OneTel anymore, it's now TalkTalk, signing up to TalkTalk will work out dearer than what you can get elsewhere, and compared to BT it is only minutely cheaper and then only if you make sure you avoid certain phone numbers.

Thanks Bex.

Just been OneTel site and we can resign for them for £9.99 with caller ID free. We don't plan to call from the phone at all. We won't even be plugging a phone in. We both work in the day and for evening/weekend calls we can use my mobile, which I get free calls on.

habibi_2

What about the offer with Namesco?

It's £60 for 12 months and you get a free modem.

Is it any good?

http://www.names.co.uk/order/adsl/order_add.php
(sorry - I don't know if I've done this right. It's my first time)

leon103

habibi wrote:

What about the offer with Namesco?

It's £60 for 12 months and you get a free modem.

Is it any good?

http://www.names.co.uk/order/adsl/order_add.php
(sorry - I don't know if I've done this right. It's my first time)

Yeah thats pretty good deal. But think I would rather pay that little bit extra for a 2MB connection rather than a 512k.

Thanks anyway