FabSwingers.com forum: What is the best broadband?

By *UNCHBOX OP Man
over a year ago

folkestone

After giving Orange one last chance to give me a decent broadband service, im now looking to use another broadband provider. What are the best broadband providers?

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

a free one - piggy back of other peoples

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

mine is through sky and its ok ! not as fast as i would like but joy of living in the arse end of nowhere!

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By *ensual temptressWoman
over a year ago

Southampton

virgin media .had mine years and only had to have tech out twice as modem gave up the ghost lol ! rolling out 100mg ,although id never need it usful for some

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

All broadband is provided by BT or Virgin, although it is sold on by every mother and his son

It depends on the bandwidth provided by the indivudual supplier and also the distance from yourslef to the exchange.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have been on Virgin fibre broadband for about 3 months, I pay for a 30 meg service and I am averaging about 27-29 meg which is very good.

BT told me I could expect between 1.5 - 8 meg and I can see their exchange from my front room!

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By *umourCouple
over a year ago

Rushden

Well.... BT said they can give us up to 20Mbps... In reality, we can get a maximum of 5.5 according to their own web site! And that is when no one else is on it... Our neighbour is getting 1.75Mbps between 4pm and 10:30pm

Sky also promised me the same package, but also said they don't turn the speed down when busy like BT!! BT man said of course they don't, their network is run by BT!!! Still unlikely to get more than the BT package!

So, we will stay with Virgin, who give us a promise of up to 20Mbps like the others, but we actually get upwards of 18+ most of the time (19.54 right now! 22.05)

Never had anything more than minor issues and even when we do, it is unusual to lose service altogether... Problem is to get that, you need to be in a cabled area, or they use the BT lines like the rest of em!

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

You lucky people!!

Over here in Hull, we are limited to Kingston Communications for Phones and their Internet division, KAROO, for broadband.

Not that we I have too much to complain about, with recent upgrades in our street (which had been one of the 3 worst streets in Hull for slow speeds). we went up from 1.5 meg to an average of 20 meg in little over a week, through the introduction of fibreoptic cabling.

But, Hull will be entirely switched over to fibreoptic cabling my late summer this year, the only city in the UK to have done so.

However, we pay high fees for it. For the cheapest Phones and Internet "bundle", I pay £33 a month! KCOM has a monopoly; they won't let BT, Orange etc in!

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By *UNCHBOX OP Man
over a year ago

folkestone

I think Orange have capped my speed to something below 0.2 mb. Some pages either dont load or take minutes to load. I have problems before with them signing me to a package of upto 8mb and then them cutting it to 0.5mb. I only stayed with them because they offered me half price. But now the speeds are useless. So im seriously considering going for fibre optic broadband.

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By *he Happy ManMan
over a year ago

Merseyside

BE I have been with them about 4 years and never had a problem. I get good speeds. Mind you the speed you get depends on how far away you are from the exchange, quality of your line etc.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Like I said earlier, I am on Virgin but if you do not have access to their fibre optic network I would suggest O2. I have several family members using it and it always seems pretty fast when I plug in, it is also getting very good re_iews generally.

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By *he Happy ManMan
over a year ago

Merseyside

"I have been on Virgin fibre broadband for about 3 months, I pay for a 30 meg service and I am averaging about 27-29 meg which is very good.

BT told me I could expect between 1.5 - 8 meg and I can see their exchange from my front room!"

Actually if you are on Virgin cable internet you should get your full 30 meg. I used to do tech support for them. With ADSL internet it is up to 8 meg or up to 24 meg etc as the speed you get depends on a lot of factors. With cable internet it is not up to. Whatever meg package you take out is what you should get whether it is 10, 30 or 100 meg.

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By *he Happy ManMan
over a year ago

Merseyside

"I think Orange have capped my speed to something below 0.2 mb. Some pages either dont load or take minutes to load. I have problems before with them signing me to a package of upto 8mb and then them cutting it to 0.5mb. I only stayed with them because they offered me half price. But now the speeds are useless. So im seriously considering going for fibre optic broadband. "

It may not be orange at fault. It may be down to the quality of your line from your home to the exchange or it may the phone wiring in your home. The only way you will really find out is to switch internet providers. If you still get terrible speeds it is time to start looking at your phone line quality.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Plus-net are the best, because they're from Yorkshire!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's not uncommon for installation engineers to turn up on site and seeing the run to the new customer from the cabinet outside will be a tricky time consuming run they look for a neighbour who is already connected and put a splitter in the line nearer the premises. If both houses log on simultaneously the broadband is shared.

They're not supposed to do it but I assure you it happens.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Am I right in think that, even once the signal has arrived in your home, the use of a wireless router to send the connection to several PCs will diminish the speed to each machine and even the use of wireless as opposed to a physical cat5 or cat6 connection will do the same - even to just one PC?

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

"It's not uncommon for installation engineers to turn up on site and seeing the run to the new customer from the cabinet outside will be a tricky time consuming run they look for a neighbour who is already connected and put a splitter in the line nearer the premises. If both houses log on simultaneously the broadband is shared.

They're not supposed to do it but I assure you it happens."

Too true.

And doesnt my neighbour watch a lot of porn.

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By *thwalescplCouple
over a year ago

brecon

"After giving Orange one last chance to give me a decent broadband service, im now looking to use another broadband provider. What are the best broadband providers?"

Tokyo telecom... they can give you 100meg.

Two drawbacks tho...

One, you have to live in the centre of Tokyo...

And two.... you have to pay summat in the region of 2 million yen minimum investment to get it!!!

But some huge businesses in Japan are happy to invest to get that sort of speed.

Realistically tho, unless you run a business from home, do you really need super-fast BB?

I get about 6meg, and I can watch films in good quality over that, downloads are fast, sending and recieving emails with pics is fast too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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Realistically tho, unless you run a business from home, do you really need super-fast BB?

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Superfast broadband is being marketed almost as a virility symbol - like fast cars and the ability to consume copious quantities of alcohol.

Madness.

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By *drianukMan
over a year ago

Spain, Lancs

Plusnet is good. Very very cheap and free telephone calls. It's a fantastic package and very reliable

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By *he Happy ManMan
over a year ago

Merseyside

Whether you use cabling or go wireless the speed will decrease with each extra computer. You are sharing the speed between computers. Well only when the computers are on the internet at the same time.

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By *he Happy ManMan
over a year ago

Merseyside

"Plusnet is good. Very very cheap and free telephone calls. It's a fantastic package and very reliable"

Don't plus net limit your speed at peak times?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We're with Virgin, no real problems and pretty quick out of the blocks!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

virgin is the best

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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Thanks, but going wireless will make the problem worse - no?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

virgin fibre optic cable is the best.

fastest speeds and 100% connection.

if you live in a cabled area its the only way to go.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"virgin fibre optic cable is the best.

fastest speeds and 100% connection.

if you live in a cabled area its the only way to go."

Virgin (in their ntl days) cabled much of central Glasgow.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

and if you have left Bt to join plus.net guess what.

its owned by Bt.

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By *drianukMan
over a year ago

Spain, Lancs

"Plusnet is good. Very very cheap and free telephone calls. It's a fantastic package and very reliable

Don't plus net limit your speed at peak times?"

I've never noticed them limitin my sped which is always good

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

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O2...£9.50 for 8 meg. We get on average around 6.5 meg so not bad.

We had to call them once and their customer service was excellent.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

megs, pegs, all sounds a bit Romany to me but virgin's does it fer me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"O2...£9.50 for 8 meg. We get on average around 6.5 meg so not bad.

We had to call them once and their customer service was excellent."

"O2...£9.50 for 8 meg". Is that it? The entire cost? Is there a BT landline fee on top of that?

I think that's where comparisons fall down. Nowadays, given how ridiculously cheap cellphone package deals are, there's no need to have a domestic landland - unless you want fast broadband at home, and that just doesn't seem fair.

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

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"O2...£9.50 for 8 meg. We get on average around 6.5 meg so not bad.

We had to call them once and their customer service was excellent.

"O2...£9.50 for 8 meg". Is that it? The entire cost? Is there a BT landline fee on top of that?

Thats just broadband yes. We have a phone line we pay seperate for.

It was a good deal to what we had before so we have stuck with it. Sky seem to have a good package for calls and line rental too, but I don't think they are as good with their customer service.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"O2...£9.50 for 8 meg. We get on average around 6.5 meg so not bad.

We had to call them once and their customer service was excellent.

"O2...£9.50 for 8 meg". Is that it? The entire cost? Is there a BT landline fee on top of that?

Thats just broadband yes. We have a phone line we pay seperate for.

It was a good deal to what we had before so we have stuck with it. Sky seem to have a good package for calls and line rental too, but I don't think they are as good with their customer service."

I worked out a while back that a modest cellphone deal + a mobile dongle gave me the best of all worlds without the need for a personal landline telephone connection was the best deal I could secure financially.

I'm aware everyone's 'phone and internet usage will be different.

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

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How much usage do you get with a dongle though?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

why does dongle sound so rude.

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

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"why does dongle sound so rude.

Ah could that be the reason why I laugh when I see it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"why does dongle sound so rude.

Ah could that be the reason why I laugh when I see it

awwww commiserations.

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"How much usage do you get with a dongle though? "

I pay £15.00 and get 15GB download or 30 days usage from 3 mobile. I've never run out of download but I often run out of month.

It's not the fastest service in the world but I don't use youtube much and I don't download porn at all.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Telewest, been with them for years, never had any issues, prompt service, helpful etc etc

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

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"How much usage do you get with a dongle though?

I pay £15.00 and get 15GB download or 30 days usage from 3 mobile. I've never run out of download but I often run out of month.

It's not the fastest service in the world but I don't use youtube much and I don't download porn at all. "

For an extra five quid or so you could have different provider plus phone line. We use our mobiles for calls which are on cheap contracts ,so we don't end up with any bill on the landline

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