What ISP?

[5milesbaby]

Unfortunately very soon I shall be experiencing the downgrade from Cable Broadband to a normal dial-up service, as even the BT exchanges cannot support Broadband, and cable isn't at the new house.

For free access with a monthly charge which ISP's can you recommend? I'll look to pay between £10 to £15, and remember the wait to connect so will avoid AOL and BT (they used to be terrible to connect to) so anyone have any goodies that I might like?

Cheers, 5mb :ok:

[atco-matic]

Have a look at ISPreview (http://www.ispreview.co.uk) which is an excellent site and should help you make a decision. There is a top 10 as well as reviews of all the ISPs but I would also suggest that you look in the forums to see which ones are having the most recent problems. ;)

[timmcat]

5mb.. unquestionably, try www.plus.net (http://plus.net) a tenner a month.. 20 hours anytime per week. I've been with them a couple of months.. OK, the odd busy tone at 'homework hour' but a couple of redials does the trick. 100% recommendation from me.

Tim

[Dan Winterland]

When I first went on line in 1997, I thought I'd give virgin a try out first. And I'm still there! It's £13.49 for all you can surf and their technical support is top notch. My brother in law (who used to run several ISPs) is now with them and is v.impressed.

I recently signed up the in-laws to Tiscali. Not bad, same price as Virgin but their technical support people are pretty clueless.

[BEagle]

Well, Dan, that's what I thought until a few weeks ago when I changed to Virgin Broadband. Since then it's been pretty obvious that there are serious problems at Virgin. The e-mail server has been down far too frequently, the customer service appalling and it's now so bad that they've stopped taking new customers until they've sorted themselves out.

When it works, it's excellent. But it just isn't really reliable enough to warrant recommendation.

[Stinger_Aviator]

Yeah basically ISP is your Internet Service Provider. Whether that be AOL, Telstra (In Australia), Optus, etc. It's the company that is providing your internet service.

[REvans]

NTL Freedom (http://www.ntlworld.com) - £15 per month, unlimited 24/7 access.