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Old 18-05-2007, 14:07   #1
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I was just wondering what ISP you guys have used
I have used BT before for dial up and broadband
and now with virgin for broadband
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Old 18-05-2007, 14:08   #2
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Re: I was just wondering what ISP you guys have used
Was with Virgin Media for BB. Moved to Be. No reason, apart from the fact I already had a BT line and Be was cheaper.
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Old 18-05-2007, 14:11   #3
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Re: I was just wondering what ISP you guys have used
U-Net and Wirenet back in the Amiga dial up days, BT dial up, and now NTL/Virgin Broadband on the PC.
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Old 18-05-2007, 14:13   #4
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Re: I was just wondering what ISP you guys have used
freenetname i used for a while ( had afree domain name)
then moved to ntl dial upand then cable in 2000
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Old 18-05-2007, 14:14   #5
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Re: I was just wondering what ISP you guys have used
Use VM/cable at home and Eclipse/ADSL at work - although this is only a resold BT wholesale product. For £19.95 they offer an 'up to 8 Mbps' service and free phone calls from the same line. Eclipse, now part of Kingston Telecom, offer an excellent service and I have no problems recommending them.
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Re: I was just wondering what ISP you guys have used
freeserve thats about it. then it was NTL all the way with firstly dial up and then broadband.

Daft it sounds we moan know about slow connections but by heck dial up was bad.
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Old 18-05-2007, 14:20   #7
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Re: I was just wondering what ISP you guys have used
Cannot rember which dial up provider i was with, then moved to
NTL,
Hi-Velocity,
Bulldog,
Virgin,
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Old 18-05-2007, 14:44   #8
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Re: I was just wondering what ISP you guys have used
My Internet History!
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  • Freeserve (56k)
  • IC24 (56k)
  • Tiscali (56k)
  • Cable and Wireless (56k)
  • Cable and Wireless (128K)
  • Cable and wireless (300k)
  • NTL (300k)
  • NTL (1meg)
  • NTL (2meg)
  • NTL (4meg)
  • Virgin Media (10meg)
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Re: I was just wondering what ISP you guys have used
BT dial up
Hacked dial up connection's (AOL)
BT broadband.
Freedom2surf, then owned by pipex- I left then
Freeola.
VirginMedia - ex-NTL.
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Old 18-05-2007, 15:02   #10
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Re: I was just wondering what ISP you guys have used
+ Screaming.Net (56K)
They were quite good and it was free after 6.00pm.
They later got taken over by WorldOnline and it became a disaster to connect and it was near impossible to get in contact with them.

+ NTL (56K)
The beginning of us joining NTL.

+ NTL Home Broadband (128K)
The beginning of us using cable. Gone were the days of dial up time outs and connections.

+ NTL Home Broadband (300K)

+ NTL Home Broadband (1MB)

+ NTL Home Broadband (2MB)

+ VirginMedia Broadband M (2MB)
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Old 18-05-2007, 15:06   #11
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Re: I was just wondering what ISP you guys have used
I've used BT dail-up before, but in about 2003 we moved to NTL broadband, they've always upped the speed, so I don't know what we started off at with them.
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Old 18-05-2007, 15:19   #12
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Re: I was just wondering what ISP you guys have used
first it was N T L (we love and miss you )
now it`s virgin noband (we hate you )
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Old 18-05-2007, 15:29   #13
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Re: I was just wondering what ISP you guys have used
For me.
Freeserve (dail up )
C&W (dail up)
C&W broadband 512k
NTL (due to takeover)
Virgin media 4mb
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Old 18-05-2007, 15:29   #14
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Re: I was just wondering what ISP you guys have used
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first it was N T L (we love and miss you )
now it`s virgin noband (we hate you )
no need to be mean lol sorry
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Old 18-05-2007, 15:47   #15
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Re: I was just wondering what ISP you guys have used
My residential internet history:

Compuserve (Dialup)
Global Internet (Dialup)
AOL (Dial up, only company who'd provide 0800 access on an NTL line and I couldn't sign up to Ntlworld)
Ntlworld (Dialup)
NTL BB (1 Meg)
NTL BB (3 Meg)
NTL BB (4 Meg)

My business history use:

BT Openworld (512k BB)
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