Another happy Pipex Xtreme Solo user. Well worth it - I was connected 6 days early and have been in broadband heaven for a month now. Sounds like a similar experience to Pilot-lite and arounf the same time.
I elected to go with an external router (ZyXel P645R) - it eliminates any USB problems and allows me to connect multiple machines independently to the Internet.
Pipex customer service and broadband performance have both been excellent - I normally get 50k-60k downloads (Liverpool area) but this depends on the number of users contending for the total 512K.
The full service offerings are very good as their major customers are major businesses. I did a lot of soul searching and slow research on dial-up (
http://www.adslguide.org has a good set of forums which include h/w reviews and tech support) and finally decide on Pipex (plus the no fee connection).
I wholeheartedly recommend Pipex - Go for it - after all its a small price to pay to surf the PPruNe forums at lighting speed
