New ISP Required

lordra

I was with Talk Talk for the last year and want to move now as they charge me £30pm for my unlimited broadband + line rental that they throttle during the evenings. I am a heavy user so will need unlimited. Got a good deal with Tesco but there are loads of negative reviews out there. I'm set to swap on the 10th. I can call all this off if I have some good intel from you guys. I don't mind £30 pm but only if its Fiber Optic. If not, then circa £20. I had SKY the year before and they were brilliant! Don't use the land line at all.

What do you think I should choose? :eek:

lordra

Also, if I take FO (fiber optic) can I get away with not having to pay a telephone line rental?

penrhyn

Why did you move from Sky?
Fibre optic broadband is a bit of a con. The line coming into your house does not change. Its just that the fibre optic network terminates at the street cabinet.
You still pay line rental.

lordra

Cos I wanted to see if Talk Talk was better. I learnt the hard way, lol. Now its either BT or SKY. That's true about it terminating at the street cabinet but that's like a tidal wave, and i get the velocity of the remnants of the wave that stopped at the cabinet! So I would still get 40 - 50 megs, better than 8 from talk talk. But I was quite happy with the 11-13 from SKY so just might stick to that. Wanted some opinions that's all.

macman

Sky or BT: hardly a tricky choice. One of the best rated ISP's and one of the worst.

VisionMan

Hi macman,

I'm genuinely curious here - why do you say BT is one of the worst?

macman

Are you serious? BT is regularly at or near the bottom of every ISP consumer survey (Which and Computer Shopper to name by two), along with Orange and TalkTalk.
They are also among the most expensive.
Or just do a forum search on here.
If you want to use the BT network, use Plusnet or another reseller. Better and cheaper.

caveat_emptor

lordra wrote: »

Also, if I take FO (fiber optic) can I get away with not having to pay a telephone line rental?

Please explain how you can get fibre for nothing.

Timalay

penrhyn wrote: »

Why did you move from Sky?
Fibre optic broadband is a bit of a con. The line coming into your house does not change. Its just that the fibre optic network terminates at the street cabinet.
You still pay line rental.

I am getting really annoyed by people saying Fibre to the Cabinet isn't true fibre/a con. It's a darn sight better than just copper. Also it cost way to much money to roll out full Fibre to the Premises at this stage.
Fibre to the Cabinet is a step in the right direction.
Also Virgin Media don't use full fibre optic cables also (yes coax cable is better than copper, but it still isn't full fibre optic cable).

VisionMan

macman wrote: »

Are you serious? BT is regularly at or near the bottom of every ISP consumer survey (Which and Computer Shopper to name by two), along with Orange and TalkTalk.
They are also among the most expensive.
Or just do a forum search on here.
If you want to use the BT network, use Plusnet or another reseller. Better and cheaper.

A forum search? On a problem and help forum? Where 99% of the posters are complaining. Now are you being serious? lol.

I see you mentioned Which and Comp Shopper, but you didn't mention this one, macman - For overall customer service -

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-2084868/Customer-service-TalkTalk-gets-Wooden-Spoon-award-AGAIN.html

And BT aren't even in the top ten. Their not perfect, by any means, but I've had over two decades almost spotless service from them. Which isn't bad... lol :rotfl:

Browntoa

if you really want BT broadband cheap then go for Plusnet....

always near the top of the customer satisfaction charts but wholly owned by BT ( but run as a standalone unit)