Moving on, looking for recomendations

Hi all

No that my 12months with Wanadont are up I am looking to move on, although I
have been happy with their service the 2gig cap is pointless, especially
with the new faster speeds.

Anyone got any recommendations as to a new ISP. I am looking for a 1 or
2meg
service with no cap or a 50gig cap. Both Tiscali and AOHell would fit the
bill if they didn't both have such a bad reputation.

Any other recommendations

Thanks

UKonline - 2 meg at £15 per month - unlimited - I will be signing up later this month, when my NTL expires

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"Darrel Griffin" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:dkbbes$sum$(E-Mail Removed)...
Hi all

No that my 12months with Wanadont are up I am looking to move on, although I
have been happy with their service the 2gig cap is pointless, especially
with the new faster speeds.

Anyone got any recommendations as to a new ISP. I am looking for a 1 or
2meg
service with no cap or a 50gig cap. Both Tiscali and AOHell would fit the
bill if they didn't both have such a bad reputation.

Any other recommendations

Thanks

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> UKonline - 2 meg at £15 per month - unlimited - I will be signing up later
> this month, when my NTL expires
>

Only if UK OL have been added to your exchange. Otherwise the prices are
the same as everybody elses.

Personally, I've just ordered a migration from Wanadoo to Eclipse.

I like the idea of the Flex package. It gives unlimited access, but with
flexible speeds. I've gone for the 512k package, which allows
by-the-hour speed upgrades when you need them (like 5p for upgrade to
1Mb, and 10p to 2Mb). You can 'Flex for the first month for free.

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On 2 Nov 2005 22:55, (E-Mail Removed) (Andy Hewitt) wrote:

>I like the idea of the Flex package. It gives unlimited access, but with
>flexible speeds. I've gone for the 512k package, which allows
>by-the-hour speed upgrades when you need them

Yes, a friend is using that service. I'd check whether they have their BT
problem sorted out though - his connection was dead for a number of hours
one Sunday recently (he was working away in Paris the next day and had a
load of work to do so no internet from 1500 to 2030 was a pain, but the
connection came back to life while he was asking me about any ideas to
get it going again (we think it was some routing problem as he couldn't
get any DNS lookups done, and some traceroutes worked but others didn't.

A firm I know is switching from Eclipse to Metronet after various routing
problems (no incoming mail to their server for hours at a time, on three
separate instances in the last 5 - 6 months). OK for home use though.

Fortunately once his e-mail was getting new messages from the USA he was a
lot happier. At his office in Chester he has Metronet (just the tenner a
month account, as he's there perhaps 3 days a month, mainly working from
home, or over in Paris with a big client). Peter M.

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In article <dkbbes$sum$(E-Mail Removed)>,
"Darrel Griffin" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Anyone got any recommendations as to a new ISP. I am looking for a 1 or
> 2meg
> service with no cap or a 50gig cap. Both Tiscali and AOHell would fit the
> bill if they didn't both have such a bad reputation.

I'd say have a look at Metronet, Freedom2Surf, Eclipse, Zen, Newnet and
possibly Griffin, not all cheap, but they will do what you've asked for.

AOL aren't so bad these days by all accounts, probably not a good choice
for gamers, and shame about the 12 month contract.

cheers,
Paul

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Peter M <us-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

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> Fortunately once his e-mail was getting new messages from the USA he was a
> lot happier. At his office in Chester he has Metronet (just the tenner a
> month account, as he's there perhaps 3 days a month, mainly working from
> home, or over in Paris with a big client). Peter M.

Yes, I considered MetroNet too, but they do have bandwidth caps in
place, albeit quite large. I'm planning to run a web server permanently
from home, so the Eclipse package looks better. The web server speed is
only going to be 256k whatever I do, so the lower speed, unlimited usage
setup is far better.

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Andy Hewitt ** FAF#1, (Ex-OSOS#5) - FJ1200 ABS
Honda Civic: Windows free zone (Mac G5 Dual Processor)
<http://andyhewitt.webhop.net>
(updated Oct 26 2005)

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 18:53:52 +0000, (E-Mail Removed) (Andy Hewitt)
wrote:

> but they do have bandwidth caps in
>place, albeit quite large.

I don't believe they do. They have a price cap but not a bandwidth
cap, or has something been added recently.

Phil
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Tiscali - dialup speeds at Broadband prices, see
http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/postlist...&Board=tiscali

AOL - the unlimited ISP of choice for heavy downloaders.

Phil Thompson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 18:53:52 +0000, (E-Mail Removed) (Andy Hewitt)
> wrote:
>
> > but they do have bandwidth caps in
> >place, albeit quite large.
>
> I don't believe they do. They have a price cap but not a bandwidth
> cap, or has something been added recently.

You're right in a way. They have price caps, the costs increase with
increases in use. However, an unlimited account at 512k is cheaper at
Eclipse, if you exceed the Metro limits.

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Andy Hewitt ** FAF#1, (Ex-OSOS#5) - FJ1200 ABS
Honda Civic: Windows free zone (Mac G5 Dual Processor)
<http://andyhewitt.webhop.net>
(updated Oct 26 2005)

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 23:29:24 +0000, (E-Mail Removed) (Andy Hewitt)
wrote:

>. They have price caps, the costs increase with
>increases in use. However, an unlimited account at 512k is cheaper at
>Eclipse, if you exceed the Metro limits.

indeed. Metronet could rise to 22 quid or so (from memory) so a high
average user would be better off on a fixed unlimited price that is
below the Metronet maximum.

Depends entirely on use, if you go away for a month Metronet charge
drops to £11.75

Phil
--
Tiscali - dialup speeds at Broadband prices, see
http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/postlist...&Board=tiscali

AOL - the unlimited ISP of choice for heavy downloaders.

Phil Thompson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 23:29:24 +0000, (E-Mail Removed) (Andy Hewitt)
> wrote:
>
> >. They have price caps, the costs increase with
> >increases in use. However, an unlimited account at 512k is cheaper at
> >Eclipse, if you exceed the Metro limits.
>
> indeed. Metronet could rise to 22 quid or so (from memory) so a high
> average user would be better off on a fixed unlimited price that is
> below the Metronet maximum.
>
> Depends entirely on use, if you go away for a month Metronet charge
> drops to £11.75

If you're on 512k yes. But if you want higher speeds, it's almost the
same, until you want a bit more bandwidth.

I guess only *you* can work out the use you have, and what you're
priorities are.

In choosing between Eclipse or MetroNet you need to decide on download
limit or speed as the priority.

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Andy Hewitt ** FAF#1, (Ex-OSOS#5) - FJ1200 ABS
Honda Civic: Windows free zone (Mac G5 Dual Processor)
<http://andyhewitt.webhop.net>
(updated Oct 26 2005)