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Caspar
13-10-2004, 12:13
Right, now that my company has decided to stop paying my BB costs I'm going to downgrade my package and even move to a cheaper supplier.

Who's the best ADSL BB supplier that you'd recommend? On a BT phoneline... ;)

Bifta
13-10-2004, 12:18
Right, now that my company has decided to stop paying my BB costs I'm going to downgrade my package and even move to a cheaper supplier.

Who's the best ADSL BB supplier that you'd recommend? On a BT phoneline... ;)

Wanadoo have so far been great, £29.99 for 1 meg, customer service seems ok, they phoned me yesterday to see if everything was going ok. (I was going to mention my back giving me gip but decided against it)

Caspar
13-10-2004, 12:23
I was hoping for something around the .5MB sort of band for circa £20

carlingman
13-10-2004, 23:50
Right, now that my company has decided to stop paying my BB costs I'm going to downgrade my package and even move to a cheaper supplier.

Who's the best ADSL BB supplier that you'd recommend? On a BT phoneline... ;)

I was hoping for something around the .5MB sort of band for circa £20

Well myself have been with Pipex for 18 months without any trouble.

Superb reliability, spot on speeds.

One or two outages for periods of 1 or 2 minutes usually emailed in advance and the early morning hours and not noticeable and this is not Pipex but when BT are carrying out maintenance on the local exchange.

E-mail has never failed once in 18 months.

Comes in a little over your budget of £20 for £23.44 for unlimited however the capped service of 1GB per month comes in just under at £19.99.

I currently have and still from the start the solo to go 500 package which is a free modem and filters and a doddle to install plug and go but now alternate between the USB ADSl modem and a speedstream PCI card.

Bonus is the 256k upload which only get on 1MB and above with NTL.

Full package details found here (http://www.solo.pipex.net/xtreme-solutions/?service=solo500&PIPEXSESSID=4f3ea0e622dba1dd20549a37d763c50c)

Although i am biest for other views i would suggest taking a looksie here (http://www.adslguide.org.uk/)

Pipex also have their own equivalent to ntlhell etc found here (http://www.pipexwoe.org.uk/forum/)

But surprisingly it is not very popular, either that or they do not have many problems.

:D

Escapee
14-10-2004, 18:17
Well myself have been with Pipex for 18 months without any trouble.

Superb reliability, spot on speeds.

One or two outages for periods of 1 or 2 minutes usually emailed in advance and the early morning hours and not noticeable and this is not Pipex but when BT are carrying out maintenance on the local exchange.

E-mail has never failed once in 18 months.

Comes in a little over your budget of £20 for £23.44 for unlimited however the capped service of 1GB per month comes in just under at £19.99.

I currently have and still from the start the solo to go 500 package which is a free modem and filters and a doddle to install plug and go but now alternate between the USB ADSl modem and a speedstream PCI card.

Bonus is the 256k upload which only get on 1MB and above with NTL.

Full package details found here (http://www.solo.pipex.net/xtreme-solutions/?service=solo500&PIPEXSESSID=4f3ea0e622dba1dd20549a37d763c50c)

Although i am biest for other views i would suggest taking a looksie here (http://www.adslguide.org.uk/)

Pipex also have their own equivalent to ntlhell etc found here (http://www.pipexwoe.org.uk/forum/)

But surprisingly it is not very popular, either that or they do not have many problems.

:D

I can second that, been on the same package for about 3-4 months. My ntl account has just closed, and I'm very happy with Pipex so far. I was very impressed with the way they kept me informed about my order by sending me 3 or 4 email to let me know how it was progressing and when it would be enabled. I had an email one afternoon saying I would get the modem within 48 hours and it turned up the next day.

I have had no problem, and I am very pleased with the experience so far.

Ignition
20-10-2004, 10:31
Pipex are a little 'maligned' - I would recommend http://www.plus.net, they have a more flexible service, more reliable email and usenet servers and more available and higher quality customer services (Pipex's main failing, connection good, mail/news 'ok-ish', CS appauling in my experience).