What Are You On

[Defiant]

Well its 2004 broadband is much easier to get whether its cable or ADSL. So I thought a poll on what people are using on here would be good and come in usefull perhaps.

[Chris W]

ntl cable for me, and dialup when i go home to my parents (which i still pay for! )

EDIT:and adsl at my g/fs which i pay for, but i didn't think i could vote for all three

[Andy E]

Im on 2mb adsl, supplied by silvermead @ £37.99 a month
Had a few problems with them at the start, but now everything running sweetly, email works, pings to gaming servers average 20-30 ms, download speeds averaging about 230 kilo bytes sec.
Been with them since mid January 2004 hav'nt been out of service yet .
Andy E
ntl pirate

[Dave Stones]

im on 10mbit lan.. no option for me

will have 3mbit telewest at our studenty house next year though

[bb31]

adsl here, not out of choice its cos i live in the sticks and not cabled

Pipex ADSl, slower than my original provider, and rapidly loosing favour within my off net colleagues at work (one this week cancelled within 4 hours of being connected, Pipex had to let him!!!!).

[mrm1]

NTL cable here at home, and BT ADSL at work.

Both services have been very reliable to me and only had a few problems with both of them.

[trebor]

Originally Posted by Proppinupthebar

Pipex ADSl, slower than my original provider, and rapidly loosing favour within my off net colleagues at work (one this week cancelled within 4 hours of being connected, Pipex had to let him!!!!).

so what issues are there with pipex?

Originally Posted by trebor

so what issues are there with pipex?

Mines slower by approx 20kb/s than my original BT.
One colleague was without connection for an entire month after they somehow connected his adsl account with another BT telephone number (6 months after he'd got the ADSL service), he was offered 6 weeks connection compensation (including the 4 weeks he was disconnected!) He cancelled after his full 12 months with a very graceful letter!
The second colleague was connected, and spent 30 minutes online before he was disconnected. He was informed there was an issue and demanded his money back due to the estimated time of connection and how rude the person was who initially took his complaint call. He's now with Tiscali.

Nildram is the provider of choice at the moment.

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by trebor

so what issues are there with pipex?

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=10041

That's just from my personal experience, I'd recommend Nildram too.

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by Proppinupthebar

Mines slower by approx 20kb/s than my original BT.
One colleague was without connection for an entire month after they somehow connected his adsl account with another BT telephone number (6 months after he'd got the ADSL service), he was offered 6 weeks connection compensation (including the 4 weeks he was disconnected!) He cancelled after his full 12 months with a very graceful letter!
The second colleague was connected, and spent 30 minutes online before he was disconnected. He was informed there was an issue and demanded his money back due to the estimated time of connection and how rude the person was who initially took his complaint call. He's now with Tiscali.

Nildram is the provider of choice at the moment.

Did they get the usual "it's not a problem on our network" ... I had that, I even sent the pings to www.pipex.com with over 75% packet loss .. they blamed my equipment, I borrowed a known working router and connected via an ethernet cable instead of wirelessly, same problem, they again said it wasn't a problem on their network and asked to repeat speed tests (which showed an average of 200K on a 1 meg connection), they then said "we can't guarantee a connection to a server", I then migrated to Nildram, every single problem disappeared ... funny that.

Originally Posted by Bifta

Did they get the usual "it's not a problem on our network" ... I had that, I even sent the pings to www.pipex.com with over 75% packet loss .. they blamed my equipment, I borrowed a known working router and connected via an ethernet cable instead of wirelessly, same problem, they again said it wasn't a problem on their network and asked to repeat speed tests (which showed an average of 200K on a 1 meg connection), they then said "we can't guarantee a connection to a server", I then migrated to Nildram, every single problem disappeared ... funny that.

For the first coleague it took them 3 weeks to actually finally investigate the issue as being their issue.

[Defiant]

29 posts here and only two people post with dialup here. One of those has broadband too. Well upto now thats answered what I thought

[Tezcatlipoca]

NTL Cable BB at home

Crappy satellite BB at work

[Jerrek]

cable: 10 Mb down, 1 Mb up