ISP Switch should I jump?

I am currently with Zen and paying £30/month for 1 Meg connection. On top of
this I have BT line rental + calls.
The Pipex Homecall Broadband with Anytime calls package & line rental looks
an attractive package. This offers unlimited usage (no FUP). I have a few
questions to help make up my mind.
1. What is their broadband service like in terms of reliability?
2. Is their offer of unlimited usage as what it says, or is there a FUP
hidden away somewhere?
3. They only give 125 MB of web space, how do I find out how much web space
my web site takes up?
4. Do Pipex Homecall place any limits on the size of email attachments you
can send & receive?
5. Do they support newsgroups (text & binary).
6. Will I still be able to use my 18866 phone account?

Appreciate any advice on the above.
TIA

On 18 Sep 2006, "BIGEYE" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>3. They only give 125 MB of web space, how do I find out how much web space
>my web site takes up?

Check the size of the master copy on your local hard drive.
You *do* have a copy on your local hard drive, don't you ? :-)

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"BIGEYE" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I am currently with Zen and paying £30/month for 1 Meg connection. On top
>of this I have BT line rental + calls.
You must be the type that is a British Gas Customer!
I pay £17-99 a month for up to 8Mbps access.
shop around and save a fortune.

>>I am currently with Zen and paying £30/month for 1 Meg connection. On top of
>> this I have BT line rental + calls.
> You must be the type that is a British Gas Customer!
> I pay £17-99 a month for up to 8Mbps access.
> shop around and save a fortune.

Who do you use?

On 18 Sep 2006, CheggersPop <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>> I pay £17-99 a month for up to 8Mbps access.
>> shop around and save a fortune.

>Who do you use?

You might really regret knowing... answer below...























Tiscali





(I pay only ** 14.99 ** a month on Eclipse !!)

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BIGEYE wrote:

> I am currently with Zen and paying £30/month for 1 Meg connection.

Get a better deal !

Zen are good !

Graham

In article <450eaf53$0$1380$(E-Mail Removed)>, BIGEYE
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>I am currently with Zen and paying £30/month for 1 Meg connection. On top of
>this I have BT line rental + calls.
>The Pipex Homecall Broadband with Anytime calls package & line rental looks
>an attractive package. This offers unlimited usage (no FUP). I have a few
>questions to help make up my mind.
>1. What is their broadband service like in terms of reliability?

No problems here.

>2. Is their offer of unlimited usage as what it says, or is there a FUP
>hidden away somewhere?

I believe they throttle P2P, at least my Bittorrents slowed to a max
20kb on a 1mb connection overnight, switched to a different BT client
that allowed encryption and I was back up to 110kb.

>3. They only give 125 MB of web space, how do I find out how much web space
>my web site takes up?
>4. Do Pipex Homecall place any limits on the size of email attachments you
>can send & receive?

Not to my knowledge.

>5. Do they support newsgroups (text & binary).

I'm pretty sure they have text newsgroups, but I use news.individual.net
anyway, no binary on Pipex though.

>6. Will I still be able to use my 18866 phone account?
>
>Appreciate any advice on the above.
>TIA
>
>

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Sean Black

Well that will be Pipex out of the equation, sent an enquiry to them via
their website and also direct email. Still waiting for a reply. If this is
how they respond to sales enquiries, what will they be like with technical
support.

"Sean Black" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news(E-Mail Removed)...
> In article <450eaf53$0$1380$(E-Mail Removed)>, BIGEYE
> <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>>I am currently with Zen and paying £30/month for 1 Meg connection. On top
>>of
>>this I have BT line rental + calls.
>>The Pipex Homecall Broadband with Anytime calls package & line rental
>>looks
>>an attractive package. This offers unlimited usage (no FUP). I have a few
>>questions to help make up my mind.
>>1. What is their broadband service like in terms of reliability?
>
> No problems here.
>
>>2. Is their offer of unlimited usage as what it says, or is there a FUP
>>hidden away somewhere?
>
> I believe they throttle P2P, at least my Bittorrents slowed to a max 20kb
> on a 1mb connection overnight, switched to a different BT client that
> allowed encryption and I was back up to 110kb.
>
>>3. They only give 125 MB of web space, how do I find out how much web
>>space
>>my web site takes up?
>>4. Do Pipex Homecall place any limits on the size of email attachments
>>you
>>can send & receive?
>
> Not to my knowledge.
>
>>5. Do they support newsgroups (text & binary).
>
> I'm pretty sure they have text newsgroups, but I use news.individual.net
> anyway, no binary on Pipex though.
>
>>6. Will I still be able to use my 18866 phone account?
>>
>>Appreciate any advice on the above.
>>TIA
>>
>>
>
> --
> Sean Black
>

BIGEYE wrote:
> Well that will be Pipex out of the equation, sent an enquiry to them via
> their website and also direct email. Still waiting for a reply. If this is
> how they respond to sales enquiries, what will they be like with technical
> support.

I'm with Pipex. They have got worse than ever just recently. Their
customer support is now firmly in the useless category. I just have to
find the right deal before making the switch.