Broadban Providors

Broadban Providors

Who's everyone using at the moment?

Time to start thinking about bb for our student house next year - 6 of us, moderately heavy users.

Narrowed it down to F2S's 8mb 50gb limit, or Telewest 10mb.

Does anyone have any experience of these, and actual speeds obtained?

Does Telewest still require you to pay phone line rental with it?

Our current router includes a DSL modem,will it work with Telewest?

Any other suggestions? Decent internet is more important to us than saving a few quid, but cheaper options appreciated! If any of them do contracts for less than a year, then thats a bonus too.

Thanks all

Re: Broadban Providors

Yes:

Nope.

Yep, just as long as its not an ADSL one.

Re: Re: Broadban Providors

That's what I meant

Telewest's actually pretty competetive if you dont have to have a landline with it

Don't know anyone on ADSL getting the speeds they should either.

Im on BT still only get 2mb when im supposed to be on 8mb

Telewest is the boy.
Pull all the stops out.. buy a new router.. get telewest.

No u/d limits and as you get free newsgroup access you can achieve 1.25mps down

4.2gb in like 45mins..

Beats everything out there..

Exactly F2S will be 35 a month with line rental anyway - and a 50gb limit, which we're normally pretty close to.

Would be a shame to ditch the router - after all the shit we had with crappy Netgear, the Linksys is a dream

No way to plug telewest into a LAN port on the router and use it?

tbh I don't know..
Its feasible though..

tbh cable seems the better options these days, adsl is a nightmare as far as im concerned. when telewest venture deeper into seaham i'll take their hand off until then ill keep plugging away with shitty monitored and restricted adsl

cable is definitely the way to go.I cant get it in my new house though

They say 'up to 8'

In reality it means you'll never get 8

talk talk broadbean told me id receive 6.5 out of 8mb available because i live close as fook to the exchange, but i still get pap speeds, and now my connection is intermittantly failing. you get what ya pay for

just because you live close to the exchange doesn't mean your phone line is close to it....your tel line could loop in the opposite direction to the exchange meaning your tell line is really far away

I women who know things like this

:blush:

it's nice to b of use in the technology forum...usually i'm in here cos i'm useless

i men who like to visit cool places

its not tho, the telephone wire goes up the street then along the top road to where the exchange is, its litterally 2 mins walk, their speed tests said id get 6.5, i know theyre shite but its basically lying

from your house??

theres a chance thats not your line...bt's lines can run in weird ways...i know this cos i worked for them selling broadband...

we had situations where people could see their tel exchange but the line was too long to take broadband

working for BT didn't have many advantages...that info was 1 tho

I only get 1.1 on talk talk. Can't really complain when I'm getting it free and my phone bills are cheaper than when I was bt. It does the job for me

its coming out of my wall jsut below the roof line and going straight ito a telephone mast. honestly ruth i can get better speeds with plusnet as i have done, its just talk talk being shite and incompetant