best broadband ???
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best broadband ???
whats the best broadband deals around at the moment or can someone recommend a good ISP !! it has to be highest mb and has to be unlimited service !! i was looking at the AOL unlimited 8mb package ! is anyone using this and have and good bad reports about it ???
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AOL are rubbish and i couldn't recommend them to anyone.
* Rubbish customer service
* Abysmal Routing (paths from UK to the BBC go via New York etc)
* now been taken over and i would imagine will be implementing aggresive traffic shaping in the future......or now even
ISP's cant really do unlimited 8 meg services anymore but
Broadband Max Connections up to 8 Meg from Aquiss
may be your best bet
I'd go with Zen but a strict cap is enforced on downloading
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* Rubbish customer service
* Abysmal Routing (paths from UK to the BBC go via New York etc)
* now been taken over and i would imagine will be implementing aggresive traffic shaping in the future......or now even
ISP's cant really do unlimited 8 meg services anymore but
Broadband Max Connections up to 8 Meg from Aquiss
may be your best bet
I'd go with Zen but a strict cap is enforced on downloading
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Yep, if you have Sky TV, then the broadband packages they offer are very good value.
2MB download ~ 6GB limit = FREE
8MB download ~ 40GB limit = £5.00 per month
16MB download ~ unlimited = £10.00 per month
I had loads of hassle getting my router, but other than that the service has been spot on with quick download speeds and, so far, no down-time that I have noticed.
2MB download ~ 6GB limit = FREE
8MB download ~ 40GB limit = £5.00 per month
16MB download ~ unlimited = £10.00 per month
I had loads of hassle getting my router, but other than that the service has been spot on with quick download speeds and, so far, no down-time that I have noticed.
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Ignore the whingers AOL are great! :)
AOL have been great for me too - excellent customer service and fantastic connection, Silver at £14.99 a month is going up from 1MB to 2MB soon
You also get a free Netgear wireless router when you join
Brilliant deal!
- why do people who don't use AOL always leap in to say how bad they are
Mick
You also get a free Netgear wireless router when you join
Brilliant deal!
- why do people who don't use AOL always leap in to say how bad they are
Mick
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AOL have been great for me too - excellent customer service and fantastic connection, Silver at £14.99 a month is going up from 1MB to 2MB soon
You also get a free Netgear wireless router when you join
Brilliant deal!
- why do people who don't use AOL always leap in to say how bad they are
Mick
You also get a free Netgear wireless router when you join
Brilliant deal!
- why do people who don't use AOL always leap in to say how bad they are
Mick
Why AOL Sucks
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RASP!
the software AOL provides is very.. er.. controlling and many people who have delt with removing it begin to hate AOL. Although the newer software is getting better AOL still sucks
Why AOL Sucks
Why AOL Sucks
This is 2007 and AOL now have broadband! - it works - it's cheap, it doesn't cut you off and you don't even have to install the aOL software if you're that paranoid - sign up - get the deal & the free router and run everything though whatever software you like! - AOL Live Help is superb if you get any problems.
The only thing that bugged me was the constant sales pitch on the faster broadband packages, not so keen to get you to drop down to a cheaper package. - But I left Gold and went to Silver, saving £10 a month & getting a free router in the process - happy happy happy & now the speed is going up to 2MB like the Gold package was before I jumped ship
So if you want proper info on how well AOL are doing - talk to someone who is using them now - not some drivel written last millenium
Mick
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He's talking about AOL 4.0 and AOL 5.0 - and being kicked off after 5 minutes - DIALUP!!!!
This is 2007 and AOL now have broadband! - it works - it's cheap, it doesn't cut you off and you don't even have to install the aOL software if you're that paranoid - sign up - get the deal & the free router and run everything though whatever software you like! - AOL Live Help is superb if you get any problems.
The only thing that bugged me was the constant sales pitch on the faster broadband packages, not so keen to get you to drop down to a cheaper package. - But I left Gold and went to Silver, saving £10 a month & getting a free router in the process - happy happy happy & now the speed is going up to 2MB like the Gold package was before I jumped ship
So if you want proper info on how well AOL are doing - talk to someone who is using them now - not some drivel written last millenium
Mick
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Mick, having used several ISP's and having experience of AOL i can say they were not much cop. If you are having a good service with them great, but im going on my own experiences which do include first hand dealings with them.
To be fair the router you get with them now is apparently very good (mate of mine set one up last week) so props go to them for that. I will say though the routing problem (sorry geek terms here) still seems to exist. They didnt used to work that well with routers at all due a different authentication system they used to use i believe. Things in that sense may be on the up but still there are better ISP's out there
all of course in my own opinion
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check the comparison above, i'll always recommend ZEN
To be fair the router you get with them now is apparently very good (mate of mine set one up last week) so props go to them for that. I will say though the routing problem (sorry geek terms here) still seems to exist. They didnt used to work that well with routers at all due a different authentication system they used to use i believe. Things in that sense may be on the up but still there are better ISP's out there
all of course in my own opinion
thinkbroadband: The UK's largest independent ADSL review site - Your guide to UK broadband Internet.
check the comparison above, i'll always recommend ZEN
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Interesting piece of a survey Mike... and a lot more informative than a comment like 'AOL are crap' which gets posted virtually every time this very common subject of ISP comes up You will have noted of course that IDNet has a 'very low' number of ratings... only 100 for this particular month, aol are rated by 6,000 + users and BTBroadband by 16,000 users -
Aol get a score of 51% on 'speed' from the average user... What does that mean? - do people know when it is the ISPs fault that a download is slow compared to when internet traffic makes it slow? - I certainly don't! - I do know that most of my big downloads occurr pretty close to the maximum download speed of my connection. the rating you get a choice of 1-5 - I give them 4/5 - I don't know - i'm not an expert - should it be 5/5 or 3/5 - I'm sure it could be better - but not much?
I think it's probably like with consumer surveys on cars - Subarus did really well when it was only us enthuiasts running them and answering surveys - we forgave many faults - whereas Ford had all the whingeing company car owners to contend with, who really wanted a BMW or Lexus instead
I'm not dedicated to AOL - I just don't think they deserve the knee-jerk bad press from 'experts' - If there really is a noticeably better and cheaper ISP out there I leap at the opportunity (well once my 12 months on my new contract with AOL silver to get my free modem are up )
So please give real info or personal experience but not just chinese whisper internet rumour and gossip column opinions
Mick
Aol get a score of 51% on 'speed' from the average user... What does that mean? - do people know when it is the ISPs fault that a download is slow compared to when internet traffic makes it slow? - I certainly don't! - I do know that most of my big downloads occurr pretty close to the maximum download speed of my connection. the rating you get a choice of 1-5 - I give them 4/5 - I don't know - i'm not an expert - should it be 5/5 or 3/5 - I'm sure it could be better - but not much?
I think it's probably like with consumer surveys on cars - Subarus did really well when it was only us enthuiasts running them and answering surveys - we forgave many faults - whereas Ford had all the whingeing company car owners to contend with, who really wanted a BMW or Lexus instead
I'm not dedicated to AOL - I just don't think they deserve the knee-jerk bad press from 'experts' - If there really is a noticeably better and cheaper ISP out there I leap at the opportunity (well once my 12 months on my new contract with AOL silver to get my free modem are up )
So please give real info or personal experience but not just chinese whisper internet rumour and gossip column opinions
Mick
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Mick.... first hand experience..... my parents were on AOL before i migrated them off it . Supplied them with a modem etc which didnt work, and calls to "support" were not exactly helpful to say the least. They didnt have a clue and were just damn annoying. Cancelling to be fair wasn't too painfull (id post the link of the guy who recorded his call to AOL in Anerica trying to cancel but the links seem to be down, that was shocking).
Migrated them and the net seems a lot better. They have now been aquired by Talk Talk so things I would imagine will be going downhill for you AOL'ers. Traffic shaping is being implemented now (i think a bandwidth cap is farier), how agressive this is im not sure of.
The routing problem still seem apparent, people on here moaning about ping times etc (91ms to the BBC anyone???), this can have detrimental effects of playing games online.
have you used any other ISP's?
Several people on here aren't willing to try anything new, the AVG crew are examples of this "I've never had a virus etc and even though ive never tried anything i know it's the best". I am not one of those people, I will only give my opinion when I feel I can justify it
fair point about IDnet though
Migrated them and the net seems a lot better. They have now been aquired by Talk Talk so things I would imagine will be going downhill for you AOL'ers. Traffic shaping is being implemented now (i think a bandwidth cap is farier), how agressive this is im not sure of.
The routing problem still seem apparent, people on here moaning about ping times etc (91ms to the BBC anyone???), this can have detrimental effects of playing games online.
have you used any other ISP's?
Several people on here aren't willing to try anything new, the AVG crew are examples of this "I've never had a virus etc and even though ive never tried anything i know it's the best". I am not one of those people, I will only give my opinion when I feel I can justify it
fair point about IDnet though
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Do sky offer a phone service in with there broadband?
At the moment im paying Tiscali £19.99 a month for 1mb unlimited and all my calls are free.
At the moment im paying Tiscali £19.99 a month for 1mb unlimited and all my calls are free.
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They offer free evening and weekend calls for £5 a month, but BT offer the same thing for £3.95 a month, so I didn't bother.
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lol?
traffic shaping/caps ahoy
no limit, but then if you can only download at 20k/sec for 18 hours a day it becomes irrelevant
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traffic shaping/caps ahoy
no limit, but then if you can only download at 20k/sec for 18 hours a day it becomes irrelevant
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Im looking at changing to talk talk they do for £19.99 up to 8meg with phone line rental and local and national calls free with a 40gig limit.
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lol?
traffic shaping/caps ahoy
no limit, but then if you can only download at 20k/sec for 18 hours a day it becomes irrelevant
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traffic shaping/caps ahoy
no limit, but then if you can only download at 20k/sec for 18 hours a day it becomes irrelevant
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All based in London though, maybe that makes a difference.
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