I need help picking an isp!

Spudette

Hey people,

I need a hand picking a new isp.

I want it as cheap as poss for a 1MB or 2MB
and quite a lot of downloadableness!

Any Help of the deals and prices available, would be appreciated.

thanks

BritBrat

I am afraid you get what you pay for with ISPs.

If you want cheap just find the cheapest.

Try looking here: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/isps.html

On the other hand if you want the best and it comes at a price, you wont get better than Zen internet.

http://www.zen.co.uk/broadband/ZenBroadband.aspx

cledor

The bundled ones (e.g TalkTalk , Orange, Sky, Virgin) work out cheapest nowadays at around £5 per month, however, quality may be questionable at times.

Spudette

£5 WOW thats a good price who is that with?

BritBrat

I would guess he means £5 but you have to add costs for phone and TV package.

Spudette

Oh right, Thanks people! You have been really helpful

moonrakerz

BritBrat wrote: »

I am afraid you get what you pay for with ISPs.

If you want cheap just find the cheapest.

Try looking here: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/isps.html

On the other hand if you want the best and it comes at a price, you wont get better than Zen internet.

http://www.zen.co.uk/broadband/ZenBroadband.aspx

Concur 110% ! Have tried a few - c**p. Now with Zen - top rate, not cheap but it does work ALL the time !

Spudette

Excellent, I think we will be going with Zen as it does seem good! And you both seem to think it is ACE! Thanks for all your comments they are much appreciated

BritBrat

You wont get better than Zen, but it is costly.

Maybe you should look around a bit more, I am not trying to put you off Zen but maybe quality is not as important to you as it is to me.

EDIT:

I don't think Zen do the 1Meg or 2meg any more only a MAXdsl service.

They do do a 1/4Meg (250) service that has no caps but wont be very fast X5 Dialup.

Your original post said cheap and Zen are not cheap so I really think you should look around some more.

Here is one I have my eye on : http://www.ukfsn.org/home/internet/adsl/unlimited.html

The bit I like is:

Our Original ADSL service offers unlimited broadband for a fixed monthly fee with no usage limits, no port blocking, no traffic throttling or shaping.

Orginal ADSL is available at a choice of 512kb/s, 1Mb or 2Mb download speeds with a fixed upload speed of 256Kb/s. There is an option to have this based upon a MAX connection in which case the download speed is fixed with the upload speed being rate adaptive up to 448kb/s* for the same price


Download Speed Upload Speed Monthly Price
512K 256K £23.50
1Mb 256K £29.99
2Mb 256K £35.24
Up to 8Mb Up to 448K £79.99

All prices include VAT.

But again not cheap.

Spudette

We rang them up and they also have a £40 activation fee. So we are noe going to go with Orange Broadband!

Rikki

Spudette wrote: »

We rang them up and they also have a £40 activation fee. So we are noe going to go with Orange Broadband!

There is only an activation fee if you are NOT migrating from another broadband supplier.

I'm with zen but www.newnet.co.uk are good too and a little cheaper. Both of these are monthly contracts too with UK call centers.

personally I wouldn't go near orange.