I think there's been a discussion previously about Broadband users, but I just thought I'd add to that and enquire as to what ISP everyone has?

Personally, I'm on Freeserve Anytime. It's cheap and dead easy to use (even for me!) and so far, I haven't had any problems with it!

I've heard some bad reports about AOL... I once used a free trial disk which absolutely covered my computer in AOL related files. It took me ages to try and get rid of them all, and I'm sure there's still a few lurking... :roll:

[RPG - added poll]

I don't like AOL, hate Freeserve and was subjected to the nightmare that was The Free Internet.

Luckily we escaped with ALL our money just beofre they went belly up. Unlike my sister in laws who had rejoined *weep*

Moon Maiden

I know mine's broadband right, but it's not BT. Think it's cable... I dunno! LOL.. I know I know, am blonde, but I honestly don't understand who my ISP is!! I use the puter ALL the time but I aint got the foggiest idea who mine is!!

Hehe that sounds like something I'd do! The only reason I know my ISP, is because there's a little icon in my Tray saying "Freesever connection kit" hehe!

ntl

only dial up but its a good deal.

Cost £15 month
For this you get unlimited internet access and £15 worth of free telephone calls :D

Anybody fancy this let me know and I will sign you up.

I'm on Plusnet @ £21.99 pcm. Good service and it's based in Sheffield which means more jobs for our city.

I'm on the Blueyonder 1mb service it's quick and at £35 a month it should be :wink:

Originally posted by "Chloe"

I know mine's broadband right, but it's not BT. Think it's cable... I dunno! LOL.. I know I know, am blonde, but I honestly don't understand who my ISP is!! I use the puter ALL the time but I aint got the foggiest idea who mine is!!

you are on blueyonder ;)

I'm on Freesreve off peak time and i pay £5.99 per month and when i get the telephone bill the internet costs me £11.99 for three months work that one out :)

I'm on the Blueyonder 512k Broadband service..
Overall, I'm very satisfied with the service they provide.

Originally posted by "Neo"

I'm on the Blueyonder 512k Broadband service..
Overall, I'm very satisfied with the service they provide.
So was I 'till the cable TV service broke, it took 3 days to get an engineer to fix that and in the process he broke the internet connection and they took 2 weeks to fix it.
However, Internet Magazine has just published readership satisfaction survey - Claranet is the clear winner, Blueyonder #2. The ones to avoid are BT, Tiscali, AOL, Freeserve - although I know individuals who are happy with each of those you need to survey hundreds of users and preferably ones who have used more than one provider, to get a balanced view.

my isp is bt openworld 15.99 a month not very good value as you only get 120 hours a month once there gone its back to pay as you go very crap and not good value
have tried 3 times to get broadband each time im told that i live 2 far from the exchange so im not a happy chap:confused:

If you can't get broadband yet, keep checking: http://www.adslguide.org.uk/availability/btprereg.asp?order=trig for updates on trigger levels.

I'm on Nildram (http://www.getadsl.co.uk/) DSL 1000 which is £39.99 p/m but very fast and has been completely reliable.

Plusnet would be my 2nd choice, and I'd avoid BT on principle due to the way they have handled the broadband rollout in the UK.

I'm on Freeserve Broadband - it seems to work for me!

I'm on Blueyonder 1MB service at home and I'm fairly happy with it.

Pipex Broadband... and it's sooooooooooooooooo fast!

Excellent service.... if anyone decides to go with them too, please PM me. If i introduce you I get one months free BB service!

Every little helps!

Blueyonder Broadband

Just undergoing a trial of their new 256k broadband service its a snip at 17.00 per month and is ideal for those on a tight budget that require more than a dial up service.
I was on the 512k and was asked by Telewest if I wished to try it,was a bit dubious at first but after some use it seemed to be ok.

You still get good transfer speeds and good page browsing,all in all I find it excellent value for money.

I have been with various ISPs in the past and Blueyonder has come out on top of them all.

The total TV,Telephone and Broadband package for 35.00 is a snip,I hope at the end of six month trial period they will offer the new 256k service as an option.
Just one to add to their many options on offer.

Originally posted by max
I'm on Plusnet @ £21.99 pcm. Good service and it's based in Sheffield which means more jobs for our city.

Couldn't agree more. I worked there for 2 years and the people there are great for customer service etc [see all the awards they have won on their site www.plus.net ]

I'm with tesco.net but hopefully won't be for long!

I went with them cos they're so cheap (12.49 / month) and have unlimited access whereas BT who I was with before are a lot more expensive, and limit your hours.

But I'm having massive problems with them! Disappearing emails, cut-offs all the time, smtp problems... the list goes on! And I'm NOT having good luck with their support.

I'm thinking of changing to ukonline... anyone have any good / bad stories of them?

(hello by the way - it's been a long time!)

Originally posted by max
I'm on Plusnet @ £21.99 pcm. Good service and it's based in Sheffield which means more jobs for our city.

Another Plusnet user here,great service and good download speeds.A mate of mine used to work there and at Freeserve so he knows what goes on behind the scenes and he cant recommend Plusnet enough.

I'm on Demon Broadband, had no probs yet!

i am after a good reliable internet provider who would be prepared to get a charity on the internet, any help would be appreciated, plz leave a website address

www.clara.net

They were my first ever ISP way back in 1997 and are still going strong to this day, they offer cheap deals,on both 56k dial up and Broadband internet, and offer roughly about 10-20 Mb of webspace which is plenty for a reasonably sized site unless you're going to be using big video files and stuff.

For hosting and and ISP you can also go for www.getdotted.co.uk who offer unlimited webspace and loads of other features like CGI-BIN, PHP, MySQL etc so that you can have stuff like messageboard forums on your site should you wish to do so.

Hope you find something useful amongst the above :)

And good luck with your charity.

ISP's.

Now, PlusNet/Force 9 - same people are very cheap £24.99 512k. for there bog-standard broadband. However, weathere they'd be interested in charities i do not know.
:thumbsup:

Yes, they give you websapce, i thought you menat will they want to promote the charity -i was thinking about the recent incident that has happened. sorry

Plusnet / force9 / freeonline now do 512K access from £14.99 (capped) a month but with 250mb webspace and you can have your own domain for £1 a month extra (ie www.mycharityname.co.uk). They also run a charities virtual ISP but the name escapes me.

And being in Sheffield, you would be helping to fund the local economy... their support is based here and not somewhere obscure abroad.

thanks for your help guys/girls, i meant isp's who wouldnt charge the charity fo the use of the internet, i will look into your suggestions,

thanks again guys/girls

Im a trustee of a charity, we have an ADSL line to our premises, we pay buisness rates, and claim our VAT back.

i use plusnet - no complaints

there's a longer thread similar to this somewhere else
Mods?

We use FairAdsl broadband... £19.99 per month 10 times faster than dial up. We've got it networked on 2 computers and its still very fast!

We use BT Broadband and have one of their business accounts - fixed IP address and (hopefully) lower contention, though that's not yet an issue.

Had good service from them. I pay about #30 a month connection charge and #10 for the fixed IP address.

I appreciate that this is over the going rate but it was about all that was available a couple of years ago when we first got it installed. I don't ind payng over the odds for reliability - I thinkin the last couple of years I've had about 8 hours downtime, and most of that was planned.

The BT provided mode's a heap of crap, though.

Joe

i use blueyonders 512 plus the 50% service

Is there an ISP based in Sheffield?Will you PM me with the address and phone no. please.

www.plus.net are a Sheffield based ISP :thumbsup:

Originally posted by DaBouncer
www.plus.net are a Sheffield based ISP :thumbsup:

And there pretty damn good too. :thumbsup:

Yes - £24.99 pcm for 512k ADSL; they're starting 1MB soon. They may have. One to look into at only £28.99 i think

Originally posted by amhudson119
Yes - £24.99 pcm for 512k ADSL; they're starting 1MB soon. They may have. One to look into at only £28.99 i think

I'm pretty sure they do 1MB and 2MB.

BT, and never had a problem with it :D

Tesco.net 'anytime' (can use 24/7)
£12.49 per month, never had any trouble connecting.
Hope the go broadband....:thumbsup:

Blueyonder 1mb - and very happy. I'd go 2Mb (now 3Mb with the +50% deal) but I'd want more upload bandwidth too for the [legal] uploading I do to justify the cost

other ISP's i've had direct and indirect experience with:

AOL - beware - they are notoious for acknowledging your request to disconnect the service, but "forget" to stop taking payment. Automatic addition to member directory means easy spam email address harvesting despite their claims to stop spam, also non pop3 standard mail means an inability to use AOLmail with normal email client software. Poorly set up with default option to automatically extract compressed files upon download, increasing virus risk (I assume they'd rather have that, than have tech support calls from customers who don't know how to unzip a compressed archive)

Freeserve dial-up - notorious for their dialler software connecting to a non-freephone number without warning, even if you're paying for unlimited connection time.

Supanet - dial-up. Not bad, does what it says on the tin. Only complaint is that it seems very easy for spammers to harvest supanet email addresses.

Wannado - nobody in Sheffield should even consider taking up their service, just because of the manner that they cast away call centre staff (am I glad I never took that job!!)

We're currently with Freeserve / Wannadoooooo broadband, although I hate the company for how awful they are to their staff.
Also, we have just found out through reading some small print that they are secretly scrapping the old broadband at around the end of july, and are going to give all customers only limited time on the internet each day, or charge them extra. What a pleasant, caring company! Wannadoo anything on the internet? Don't wannaget Wannadoo broadband!!

Really really unhappy with Tascali but I'm locked in for a years contract (£15 p month).

My advice is DON'T select Tascali. I keep getting booted out and end up having to redial all the time (about 3 times every MINUTE at times !!!). I get so fed up re-retrying that I just give up. It's a waste of money and time for me.

Very very happy with Blueyonder broadband. £24.99 a month for 768k download is excellent, and in 6 months the service has only been down once for 2 days and I got a refund of a fiver off my months bill.

Can anyone just give me some advie on the whole bandwidth thing..e.g with plusnet you get 512k broadband for £14.99 with free 1gb bandwidth..just what does it all mean..I know the 512k bit but the bandwidth thing confuses me...why would I need extra bandwidth

free 1gb bandwidth..just what does it all mean..

Think that means you'll be restricted to downloading 1Gb of data a month - essentially a "cap".

I was with BT back in the dial up days before they cut me off for "excessive usage" - which I wasn't anywhere close to being!!!!

Then was with Pipex for 512k broadband. Thoroughly impressed (esp in relation to BT!), they set it up quick, customer service was great and don't recall ever having any downtime. They said my IP address would be dynamic, but I had the same one for 2 and half years - a bit of a help for certain things.

Moved house last year and have gone with 512k broadband from Zen (http://www.zen.co.uk) - they ROCK!. Competitive pricing, no cap, don't have to buy their modem, eight static IP addresses (still haven't seen this offered by any other ISP and is a big plus if you want to do have web/mail server(s) at home), not aware of any downtime at all yet.

Keep having the BlueYonder people try to get me to switch to cable (which I am tempted by occasionally), but if I recall correctly, they only offer 128k upstream (on all their broadband). I do stand to be corrected and this could have changed. Uplink speed is an important consideration for anyone who runs web/mail servers at home though.

I'd recommend Pipex to anyone and Zen (for those who may benefit from static IP addresses).

Originally posted by DaBouncer
www.plus.net are a Sheffield based ISP :thumbsup:
Just signed up to Plusnet 512k broadband for only £14.99 per month..kerchinggg. Bye Bye Wannadoodoo

When we lived in Hillsborough, I used Telewest/BlueYonder cable and it was great. Since moving to Nether Edge where there's no cable, we've used FreedomToSurf (www.f2s.com) ADSL 1MB via the BT phoneline and it has been fine. At £35.24 a month, it's on a par with what we used to pay for 512KB BlueYonder. The service has been excellent, only twice had to phone their support desk and the response was terrific. You get a domain name, up to 20 e-mail addresses (with spam filtering), a static IP address, and a web site. You don't have to sign up for a year or anything, it's done on a monthly basis.

I'm not telling

I am with BT Yahoo (for the moment) my year is up soon, and I have had a few problems with them,..... but since I`ve moved the router into the bedroom and I am the only one plugged into it, it seems better, I am no longer going through a long piece of wood nailed to the walls, going past the bathroom and into the living room.