Braodband ISP recomendation

Hi,

Can anyone recommend a broadband ISP - preferably as cheap as
possible, not bothered about fast speed 2Meg will be fine, don't see
me giving it much usage - mainly email and NG's - very little, if any,
video, not to bothered about tech support - I wanyt a cheap and
cheerful service.
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Cheers

Peter

PeterT wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a broadband ISP - preferably as cheap as
> possible, not bothered about fast speed 2Meg will be fine, don't see
> me giving it much usage - mainly email and NG's - very little, if any,
> video, not to bothered about tech support - I wanyt a cheap and
> cheerful service.

If you are only using it for email and NG why not use dialup.

Geoff Lane

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:54:52 +0000, Geoff Lane
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>PeterT wrote:
>
>> Can anyone recommend a broadband ISP - preferably as cheap as
>> possible, not bothered about fast speed 2Meg will be fine, don't see
>> me giving it much usage - mainly email and NG's - very little, if any,
>> video, not to bothered about tech support - I wanyt a cheap and
>> cheerful service.
>
>If you are only using it for email and NG why not use dialup.
>
>Geoff Lane

Prefer a broadband connection - dial up I find too slow for web pages
etc
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Cheers

Peter

In uk.telecom.broadband, on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:52:04, PeterT wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Can anyone recommend a broadband ISP - preferably as cheap as
>possible, not bothered about fast speed 2Meg will be fine, don't see
>me giving it much usage - mainly email and NG's - very little, if any,
>video, not to bothered about tech support - I wanyt a cheap and
>cheerful service.

Newnet should suit, it works, has real UK humans at the other end.

http://www.newnet.co.uk/

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Jim Crowther

PeterT wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can anyone recommend a broadband ISP - preferably as cheap as
> possible, not bothered about fast speed 2Meg will be fine, don't see
> me giving it much usage - mainly email and NG's - very little, if any,
> video, not to bothered about tech support - I wanyt a cheap and
> cheerful service.

In which case expect poor perfromance.

Graham

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:41:02 +0000, Eeyore
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>
>PeterT wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can anyone recommend a broadband ISP - preferably as cheap as
>> possible, not bothered about fast speed 2Meg will be fine, don't see
>> me giving it much usage - mainly email and NG's - very little, if any,
>> video, not to bothered about tech support - I wanyt a cheap and
>> cheerful service.
>
>In which case expect poor perfromance.
>
>Graham

It depends what you mean by performance - all I want is a connection
that works most of the time (during the working day, not in the
evening). I want no more than a 2meg connection and it needs to be
cheap. I suppose a monthly contract would be nice, but 12 months
should be OK
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Cheers

Peter

Eeyore wrote:
>
> PeterT wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can anyone recommend a broadband ISP - preferably as cheap as
>> possible, not bothered about fast speed 2Meg will be fine, don't see
>> me giving it much usage - mainly email and NG's - very little, if any,
>> video, not to bothered about tech support - I wanyt a cheap and
>> cheerful service.
>
> In which case expect poor perfromance.
>
> Graham
>

I dunno if that is true. I have my mum running on plusnet ADSL Max 1 gig
download a month limit for £10. It doesn't seem to cause her any
problems. The billing department have certainly never caused me any
problems.

The main problems with ISPs is when they promise unlimited downloads etc.

PeterT wrote:

> Eeyore wrote:
> >PeterT wrote:
> >>
> >> Can anyone recommend a broadband ISP - preferably as cheap as
> >> possible, not bothered about fast speed 2Meg will be fine, don't see
> >> me giving it much usage - mainly email and NG's - very little, if any,
> >> video, not to bothered about tech support - I wanyt a cheap and
> >> cheerful service.
> >
> >In which case expect poor perfromance.
>
>
> It depends what you mean by performance - all I want is a connection
> that works most of the time (during the working day, not in the
> evening). I want no more than a 2meg connection and it needs to be
> cheap. I suppose a monthly contract would be nice, but 12 months
> should be OK

How much do you plan to use it ? If you use only 1GB of downloads a month,
Plusnet do a deal for £9.99 and they're better than the bottom feeder ISPs
like Tiscali, Orange, TalkTalk etc.

You even get free line activation and a free router if you stay with them for
12 months. That's good value.

Graham

Nick wrote:

> Eeyore wrote:
> > PeterT wrote:
> >>
> >> Can anyone recommend a broadband ISP - preferably as cheap as
> >> possible, not bothered about fast speed 2Meg will be fine, don't see
> >> me giving it much usage - mainly email and NG's - very little, if any,
> >> video, not to bothered about tech support - I wanyt a cheap and
> >> cheerful service.
> >
> > In which case expect poor perfromance.
>
>
> I dunno if that is true. I have my mum running on plusnet ADSL Max 1 gig
> download a month limit for £10. It doesn't seem to cause her any
> problems. The billing department have certainly never caused me any
> problems.
>
> The main problems with ISPs is when they promise unlimited downloads etc.

I tend to agree.

Funnily enough I just recommended exactly the same in this instance.

Graham

Eeyore wrote:
>
> Nick wrote:
>
>> Eeyore wrote:
>>> PeterT wrote:
>>>> Can anyone recommend a broadband ISP - preferably as cheap as
>>>> possible, not bothered about fast speed 2Meg will be fine, don't see
>>>> me giving it much usage - mainly email and NG's - very little, if any,
>>>> video, not to bothered about tech support - I wanyt a cheap and
>>>> cheerful service.
>>> In which case expect poor perfromance.
>>
>> I dunno if that is true. I have my mum running on plusnet ADSL Max 1 gig
>> download a month limit for £10. It doesn't seem to cause her any
>> problems. The billing department have certainly never caused me any
>> problems.
>>
>> The main problems with ISPs is when they promise unlimited downloads etc.
>
> I tend to agree.
>
> Funnily enough I just recommended exactly the same in this instance.
>
> Graham
>
>
You're with IDNET too aren't you.

I've recently joined and found out they didn't have a newserver so I
signed up with individual.net who are ok but I had to use Click & Buy
who I'm very uncomfortable with.

I notice you are with astraweb and just looking I see I could have got a
25GB deal with them for $10, damn! I looked and looked for an alternative.