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Re: [LUG] OT: Broadband Options (Again)

 

Terry Hill wrote:
Sorry to trawl this old gem up again, but I'm moving in a couple of
weeks and it's time to sort the broadband out.

I've been with Tiscali for the last couple of years, and they're fine
until you have a problem, then they become worse than useless.  The
support is overseas and the support people read off a crib sheet of
some sort, seemingly with only a cursory knowledge of what they are
doing.

So who do you use at the moment, whats the support like and have you
found the holy grail of an unlimited connection without paying a
fortune?

Right now I'm considering heading to BT, although their unlimited
package is quite expensive imo...
I've been with Eclipse for ages. They're cheap, they provide static IPs, 
their customer service is in this country and has been very good in my 
experience. They have had mixed reviews at times, but I think that was 
because they were getting customers faster than they could cope with. 
I'm almost certain that all of my issues have been due to the useless 
ADSL hardware I was using. Those that weren't I put down to the 
line/exchange.
Last time I checked you had a choice between fast connection with quota 
or slower connection with no quota. I'm on a 10Gb/month quota and 
surprisingly we only go over it when I do mass updates. It works out 
much cheaper for me to buy a bit more when this happens, rather than go 
with an unlimited package all year round. And if I don't buy more the 
connection is just slowed to 512kbps or something, which is no real 
disaster for me.
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