New to Broadband - which provider

Thinking of going Broadband but so many providers.

Does anyone have experience of the cheap ones - eg FairBroadband @ £18.49 /
month

Are they any good? How much down time do they have?

Any suggestions / help would be appreciated.

Pete

Go and read the new users section at ADSL Guide & also the message boards
which review customer service (or not ) of most ISPs

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http://www.adslguide.org.uk/

"pete" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Thinking of going Broadband but so many providers.
>
> Does anyone have experience of the cheap ones - eg FairBroadband @ £18.49
/
> month
>
> Are they any good? How much down time do they have?
>
> Any suggestions / help would be appreciated.

Don't go for the cheapest but don't get ripped off. Go a well recommended
company. My personal choices would be (in no particular order of
preference):

a) Nildram - www.getadsl.co.uk
b) Plus.net - www.plus.net
c) Pipex - www.xtreme.pipex.net
d) Clara - www.clara.net
e) Zen - www.zen.co.uk

Paul

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 00:16:53 GMT, "Paul"
<(E-Mail Removed)> mangled uncounted electrons
thus:

>
>"pete" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:bmpkg2$kck$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Thinking of going Broadband but so many providers.
>>
>> Does anyone have experience of the cheap ones - eg FairBroadband @ £18.49
>/
>> month
>>
>> Are they any good? How much down time do they have?
>>
>> Any suggestions / help would be appreciated.
>
>Don't go for the cheapest but don't get ripped off. Go a well recommended
>company. My personal choices would be (in no particular order of
>preference):
>
>a) Nildram - www.getadsl.co.uk
>b) Plus.net - www.plus.net
>c) Pipex - www.xtreme.pipex.net
>d) Clara - www.clara.net
>e) Zen - www.zen.co.uk

I'd add Freedom2Surf to that list - I've been on with them since
16 July. Only 3 months, I know, but no problems at all. And they
e-mail notices of anticipated downtime (invariably so far due to
BT work at my exchange) in advance...

£22.50/month, no connection fee (at least when I signed up). I
access through a Fujitsu FDX310 USB modem, if it's relevant (no
'frog' here as I have a Via chipset mobo).

Martin D. Pay
F2S seem like good people...

i agree add freedom2surf to the list. They are constantly in the top 10
Broadband ISP speed lists and it's only 22.50ukpds

I have had no problems so far apart from when the exchange was upgraded.I
lost the connection for about 6 hours but they even sent me an email to tell
me aboout it.

highly reccomended.

"Martin D. Pay" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 00:16:53 GMT, "Paul"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> mangled uncounted electrons
> thus:
>
> >
> >"pete" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> >news:bmpkg2$kck$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> Thinking of going Broadband but so many providers.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have experience of the cheap ones - eg FairBroadband @
£18.49
> >/
> >> month
> >>
> >> Are they any good? How much down time do they have?
> >>
> >> Any suggestions / help would be appreciated.
> >
> >Don't go for the cheapest but don't get ripped off. Go a well recommended
> >company. My personal choices would be (in no particular order of
> >preference):
> >
> >a) Nildram - www.getadsl.co.uk
> >b) Plus.net - www.plus.net
> >c) Pipex - www.xtreme.pipex.net
> >d) Clara - www.clara.net
> >e) Zen - www.zen.co.uk
>
> I'd add Freedom2Surf to that list - I've been on with them since
> 16 July. Only 3 months, I know, but no problems at all. And they
> e-mail notices of anticipated downtime (invariably so far due to
> BT work at my exchange) in advance...
>
> £22.50/month, no connection fee (at least when I signed up). I
> access through a Fujitsu FDX310 USB modem, if it's relevant (no
> 'frog' here as I have a Via chipset mobo).
>
> Martin D. Pay
> F2S seem like good people...