Internet Service Providers

Internet Service Providers

Any recommendations on a reliable pay as you go internet sevice provider for my lap top when I am out and about with it…?

Pipex.

All the rest will tie you down to a 12 month contract.

they can't tie u down to a 12 mth contract if it's payg??...that's why it's pay as you go.....you're just paying for it when ur using it...

Not Freeserve or NTL, def not AOL.

I've got a backup Virgin account (for when my monthly NTL account) decides to stop working - connections are good and doesn't keep bouncing you off like so many do

Bt is good

no they're not, BT is pants!

gotta agree there...they're shite!!!

totally disagree.

In nearly 5 years of BT as my ISP, I can honestly say that I have never had any problems, and they are always very helpful.

Occasionally the servers would be full when I was on dial up, but since I have had broadband, I have never been cut of or not been able to get on.

I had a small hardware failure with the modem, so they sent me a new modem, and gave us a month free for the invonvenience.

Thats cracking customer service if you ask me.

As for pay as u go....what service can be truely "better" than another, they are all gonna be very slow!

Just get freeserve or something.

Why do you think BT is shite Ruth/Si?

well ruth works for BT, probably as good a reason as any

i was more taking the piss...i work for them & enjoy disagreeing with their fantastic services that i sell for a living...

i amhowever going to go home & get the fone bill of my dad so i can go n book bt broadband on line...i want lots of music & porn!! (dunno how well the whole porn thing will go down with the rents tho) i'll say it was my dad thwe dirty old bugger!!!

am on freeserve and fine it pretty reliable

Ive managed to find a friend of a friend who is a bt engineer type... he's gonna come sort my line out so broadband is slowly edging it's way towards me...

yay!!!

there's shit loads of music i'm after & downloading seems to b the way forward!

I'm really getting annoyed with people slagging off AOL. I had BT Dial-up for about a year and I found it SHIT. I was disconnected after 2 hours ("but that's alright, just reconnect"...not when I was downloading things!! ) and then I was also disconnected regularly. It was also not unusual to not be able to connect due to the servers being too busy. I HATED BT.

So after my 12 month contract was up, I switched to AOL. And I couldn't have asked for better! In the 12 months I was on AOL Dial-up I was probably disconnected about 5 or 6 times, considering I'm online between 6 and 10 hours each day then that's excellent!

They offered a number of numbers to call to dial up, so when one didn't work for some reason or another you just switched to another number to call and one would work. True, you have to keep the AOL browser minimised all the time, but you get used to it and it's not all that bad. If you're an idiot and can't figure out how to make IE your default browser then don't complain about the AOL Browser, you should know better!

OK if other people have had bad times with AOL, but I recently switched to AOL Broadband, and am loving it Go AOL

:tut: Hope there's no illegal downloading of music going on here!! *cough*

nope, just sets that are not availabel to buy on cd but that are available to down load!!! :angel2:

i dislike aol intensely & that has now turned to hatred after the shoddy service they give their broadband customers & thne tell them to ring bt....it's shocking what they get away with & how much shit bt advisers get because of them.....

GO TESCO'S!

The reason I am looking for an alternative is because Virgin who I am currently with seems to be pants at the moment.... It keeps timing out on Ebay, Hotmail and Microsoft websites consistantly and has done for the last 3wks!

Well I have no probs with them on Broadband

i ordered my bt broadband last nite...whooop whoooop...yay yay yaay...