changing ISP.which one?

dawn2dusk

Can anyone help. Currently with aol silver broadband. not at all happy with service. Very often comes up aol not responding and service is slow.
AM getting new laptop next week. Any recommendations for other Isps would be appreiciated and quickness of MAC numbers given.
Any help appreiciated.
thanks .

vtec

I am currently using ADSL24 http://adsl24.co.uk/index.php - they offer a nice range of packages at good prices, and their customer service is excellent. I sent an email to them when i had a question - they called me to discuss things within half an hour - at 9.30 at night ! And - the person calling was an actual technician - not just someone trained to sit at the desk - he actually knew what he was talking about. Superb.

Connection/routing/ping are all highly rated. I came from AOL and will not be going back !

They also have a really good community on their forum http://adsl24.co.uk/forum/ if you have any general questions.
Hope that helps.

dawn2dusk

Thanks for that. Any one else with other suggestions gratefully received.

maxsquared

Ok, here is the deal.

Go to www.samknows.com then go to avaiability checker, put your post code and phone number in, go to locality and see how far are you from your exchange, if more than 1.2 km, than stay where you are or move to something under BT datastream broadband, because you can't get high speed anyway. But if the distance is less than 1.2 you will possibly getting really fast broadband connection.

If it's the latter case, I would suggest www.bethere.co.uk 24meg, 15 with data limit 25 with no limit. I am getting 20 meg, and I downloaded Vista for less than 20 mins. (basically really really fast)

dawn2dusk

Cheers max. :beer:

judderman62

I recently moved to them - they seem the canines testicles indeed :beer:

tomsolomon

My AOL service expired a fortnight ago. Trouble is I aint paid my BT phone bill for six months and they cut me of, but kept my broadband going. Thing is I was thinking about going for this Tiscali broadband with free telephone line rental and calls, but I realy wanted a new laptop. Both PC world and now as it would seem AOL are launching Free Laptop deals with their broadband packages, obviously AOL being the better deal (because the laptops are Dell). I was just wondering if carphone warehouse (AOL) were doing a phone line rental and free calls with the laptop deal, so I can sell my old laptop and pay off BT, but still keep my phone line? seeing as BT are a bunch of
!*%£&$^%"&*!£$ers:mad: .

Nah only joking, We all love you Busby. Honest.

normanmark

tomsolomon wrote: »

seeing as BT are a bunch of
!*%£&$^%"&*!£$ers:mad:

Yeah 110% right, dont pay your bill for 6th month & then call them t*ssers :rolleyes:

espresso

maxsquared wrote: »

Ok, here is the deal.

Go to www.samknows.com then go to avaiability checker, put your post code and phone number in, go to locality and see how far are you from your exchange, if more than 1.2 km, than stay where you are or move to something under BT datastream broadband, because you can't get high speed anyway. But if the distance is less than 1.2 you will possibly getting really fast broadband connection.

If it's the latter case, I would suggest www.bethere.co.uk 24meg, 15 with data limit 25 with no limit. I am getting 20 meg, and I downloaded Vista for less than 20 mins. (basically really really fast)

:rotfl:

You can't make statements like that! Distance is not everything, line attenuation and signal to noise ratio are much more important and these will depend on the age, quality and type of line (overhead or underground) used from the exchange to the property.