Pipex Solo: Anyone using it?

How reliable is this provider?

Frank

Thus spaketh Frank:
> How reliable is this provider?
>
> Frank

They are extremely reliable, I sometimes regret leaving them, I was in search
of a cheaper deal.

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 23:15:55 +0000, Frank
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>How reliable is this provider?
>
I've been on Solo 500 for a while, (12-18 months or so), and not had
any problems.
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"Frank" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> How reliable is this provider?

I used them for about 15 months and only left them because I moved to the
middle of Northumberland. I will be back online with them from the 8th March
(fingers crossed).

I never had any big problems with them, email and phone support was fast and
any predicted problems are detailed on their website.

Newsgroups were slow with Pipex, especially binaries, but I don't know what
they are like now.

I am hoping they are going to up the speed/lower prices when I am connected,
following the example of other providers. However, I am not after a cheap
deal, just a reliable one (which I found them to be)

Even if they are cr*p now, I am only on a 1 month contract with the £50ish
charge to pay if I leave them within the first 12 months. I was using about
3 gig a day according to DUmeter, downloading stuff/streaming/surfing/vid
conf etc.

-halli-

Thanks for the response. I'm a keen baseball fan and I need a reliable
and fast supplier so that I can enjoy live broadcast. Thanks again.

{{{{{Welcome}}}}} wrote:
> Thus spaketh Frank:
>
>>How reliable is this provider?
>>
>>Frank
>
>
> They are extremely reliable, I sometimes regret leaving them, I was in search
> of a cheaper deal.
>
>
>

who did you go with? The thought of me saving £100 a year is very
tempting, but I cannot fault the service at all as it has been 100% for
over a year (touch wood).

I rang them recently re migration/reducing prices - they told me that
they 'could not tell me anything' but to watch the website over the next
couple of months.

Frank wrote:
> How reliable is this provider?
>
> Frank

Very reliable however pricing isn't the most competitive and slow to change
so to get something reasonable you have to make compromises - usenet,
monthly cap, speed etc.

Frank wrote:

> Thanks for the response. I'm a keen baseball fan and I need a reliable
> and fast supplier so that I can enjoy live broadcast. Thanks again.

I'm a baseball fan too, what site(s) do you get live baseball streamed
from, without having to subscribe to MLB.com ?

johnydeath wrote:
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> who did you go with? The thought of me saving £100 a year is very
> tempting, but I cannot fault the service at all as it has been 100% for
> over a year (touch wood).

Same here, joined in July 03 only had a couple of outages in that time,
not Pipex's fault AFAICT, but problems at the local BT exchange

(500k uncapped service @ £23.44/m)


> I rang them recently re migration/reducing prices - they told me that
> they 'could not tell me anything' but to watch the website over the next
> couple of months.

I was about to phone them to ask the same :-) I'll keep an eye open. My
monthly traffic is probably quite high (two teenage sons each with a PC
on my router :-) )

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Thus spaketh johnydeath:
> {{{{{Welcome}}}}} wrote:
>> Thus spaketh Frank:
>>
>>> How reliable is this provider?
>>>
>>> Frank
>>
>>
>> They are extremely reliable, I sometimes regret leaving them, I was
>> in search of a cheaper deal.
>>
>>
>>
>
> who did you go with? The thought of me saving £100 a year is very
> tempting, but I cannot fault the service at all as it has been 100%
> for over a year (touch wood).
>
> I rang them recently re migration/reducing prices - they told me that
> they 'could not tell me anything' but to watch the website over the
> next couple of months.

I moved to TalkTalk, they had some problems over Christmas, and they offered
for me to move away from Talk Talk for free, and provided me with a MAC key,
but then later, they made me an offer I couldn't refuse, so stayed with them.
And they have been fine since they had a new pipe installed.

Pipex said to me in December that to keep an eye on their site, but still
nothing, they admitted to me, they were loosing a huge amount of customers,
with a great deal of them moving to Talk Talk, when I was chatting to Pipex I
could here loads of advisors constantly giving out MAC keys. So they would be
crazy not to shortly offer a better deal.

If you need to call Pipex, use the 01707 299 505 number cheaper than the so
called "Lo - Call" number.


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