Re: [Hampshire] Domestic ADSL ISPs

When it comes to ISPs, I've got a personal preference for ADSL24.
They have UK customer service which tends to be about as good as you get
these days (until their upstream provider gets shirty about something).
Capped during the peak hours, 8AM - midnight, and uncapped from midnight
til 8.

Alternatively, Bethere are nice and reliable as well (I'm using them in
Southampton).

Chris

On 04/04/11 11:15, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I currently have Talk-Talk as my ISP at home, originally starting with Nildram
> and as them changed hands many times (Pipex -> Tiscali -> TalkTalk). It's fair
> to say that the customer service standard has dropped with each take over and
> while the monthly cost has fallen a little. I'm coming to towards the end of
> my most recent 12-month contract and I'm considering alternatives. I'd also
> love to get rid of BT at the same time an even more evil company...
>
> For ISP I know that Zen and Andrews and Arnold have a good reputation how are
> UK Free Software Network or thePhoneCo-op?
>
> During the week day 8am - 6pm my home network ticks over and pretty much
> doesn't do much, I SSH into it now and then and email is pulled down to it by
> fetchmail but that's about it. At the evening we do normal browsing and I tend
> to run aptitude to update local machines. The only heavy downloading I do,
> distro ISOs, BBC iPlayer tv and radio programs takes place between midnight
> and 6am.
>
> I note that some ISPs provide "unlimited" downloads at night, others do not. I
> probably pull less than 10 GiB a month during the day, but possibly over 1 GiB
> a night (if there is some good HD stuff on the Beeb).
>
> I'd also like to get rid of BT for my phone line - I hate the company - in
> that situation I'm just looking for a reliable telco with cheap international
> rates (France) and I don't care about UK calls day time or evening as I almost
> never make any calls these days. Any suggestions?
>
> Just looking for current opinions and suggestions, given that the only option
> I have is an unbundled BT exchange - so no competition from any one else...
> and no ADSL2+/VDSL or Virgin cable. Who ever I pick will have to run their
> service over BTs rusty wires and via their antique ADSL DSLAM...
>