Broadband provider that doesn't traffic manage & you would recommend?

Nine_Lives

I'll take the broadband journey right back to my beginning...

Joined up with PlusNet around 2004 after they won awards & they were brilliant ..... until they made some changed & then became slower than 56k. This went on for way too long so i jumped ship....

...to Zen broadband, who were absolutely flawless. My only & i mean only grip with them is their price - it was £24.99/month IIRC. As we're out in a small village, the fastest we could get was the 8mb/s. This prompted me to jump to....

...o2 as they were advertising at £17.50 & i got 3 months for free. All was well for the best part of a year until they too became terribly unreliable. I was told they were operating a fair usage policy & traffic managing. Not very good when at the weekend you're wanting to snipe some eBay auction & your page wont load & when it does you've missed out on a bargain!! So i then jumped....

...back to Zen, which is where i am now. No fair usage policy, no traffic managing. Service has been fantastic. When i was receiving slow speeds their CS was brilliant. Again, my only grip is it's now about £25.50/month.


With us looking at move home, i was looking at an A-I-O package such as Sky (although as said, it'd be their 8mb/s package & not their unlimited). Only thing here is i read they have a F.U. policy & traffic manage - so you get killer speeds.


I was wondering who else out there offer a service like Zen ... but cheaper? I think my monthly download limit is 50GB with Zen.

Nine_Lives

Is everyone fortunate enough to be on Sky Unlimited & aren't unlucky enough to be in the same predicament?

JJ_Egan

Zen is the best but you pay a premium .
Next best BE but they are buried by Sky .


Try one of the broadband checkers as posted on MSE .


jje

Nine_Lives

Yeah i did a bit more research last night & it seems that nobody really offers without traffic management apart fro Zen & Sky Unlimited & perhaps Be. We can't get Sky Unlimited so we're seemingly out of luck. I don't fancy going back on an o2 deal any time soon.

deanos

talk talk say they are totally unlimited not read the small print tho, im paying £17.75 for 38mb fibre , and free evening weekend calls and line rental,never had a problem myself

http://recombu.com/digital/news/talktalk-broadband-traffic-shaping-essentials-plus-truly-unlimited_M11645.html

Nine_Lives

Unfortunately there's no LLU, no fibre available for me.

I've heard things about TalkTalk. Yet to hear anything decent though.

deanos

so have i , and many other isp company's

Xplozion

You won't find a service like Zen's cheaper. You get what you pay for (unless it's BT where you pay a bit more for the name but get the same service as you do from all the other big boys).

deanos wrote: »

talk talk say they are totally unlimited not read the small print tho, im paying £17.75 for 38mb fibre , and free evening weekend calls and line rental,never had a problem myself

http://recombu.com/digital/news/talktalk-broadband-traffic-shaping-essentials-plus-truly-unlimited_M11645.html

I've also had no real problems with TalkTalk and they are such good value for money. They are in fact totally unlimited (their policies changed as of 31st May, now no longer traffic management or FUP governed). The only problem is that you cannot trust their direct support methods (phone especially, but also live chat and e-mail) but get support via the official TalkTalk Members Forums and they'll always get it right for you. Also, get cash back (£70 of free money :rotfl:).

Nine_Lives

Well it seems that this may now become a bit irrelevant for us. Viewed our first house today & we both think it's heavily overpriced. Well, not that it's overpriced, as it'll probably sell for about that, but we wouldn't pay that much for it & we'd only pay about £20k less.

As a result we're in a way back to square 1 - & looking at properties in the city, which would mean Sky unlimited.