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Which broadband provider is best?...By: Sarahb [12-January-07 3:17PM]30 posts | 
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There are now tens of broadband service providers out there. It's very complicated to compare as many have different price bands depending how many services you take with that company. | |
Re : Which broadband provider is best?Chris Thompson [13-January-07 10:19PM] 427 posts |
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I think it may be more a case of which is the least worst | |
Re : Which broadband provider is best?Leemason [2-February-07 12:34PM] 27 posts |
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It's very difficult to answer that one. I have used several and none are particularly brilliant. It depends if its business or home and how much you are willing to pay. Most fall down on customer service. I have experience of Blueyonder, Tiscali, BT, Easynet, and a couple of other small ones. A good one for business is Nildram. I have never heard anything bad about them from users but they are more expensive than some. | |
Re : Which broadband provider is best?Dan Moore [9-February-07 12:15AM] 538 posts |
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Will Virgin Media be any better than NTL? | |
Re : Which broadband provider is best?Leemason [9-February-07 8:45AM] 27 posts |
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If Virgin trains is anything to go by I doubt it. I noticed last night that the bootup logo had changed to Virgin on my PACE Telewest box.
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Re : Which broadband provider is best?Dan Moore [10-February-07 4:40PM] 538 posts |
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Good point Lee | |
Re : Which broadband provider is best?Tema315 [15-February-07 11:20AM] 14 posts |
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As an ISP ourselves, I'll try and be as objective as possible. | |
Re : Which broadband provider is best?ANISH JOHNY [3-March-07 9:40AM] 13 posts |
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A List of Good Broadband Provider Name Given Below. | |
Re : Which broadband provider is best?Sisko1 [2-November-07 4:09PM] 8 posts |
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I have been with a company called Zen Internet for some time now, they are probably one of the most expensive ones around but very reliable. They have won many awards for quality of service. www.zen.co.uk
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Re : Which broadband provider is best?Thomas [6-November-07 11:06PM] 111 posts |
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NTL, sorry Virgin Media, are fine when things are ok but when they go wrong... you can spend a long time waiting for support, which is usually 'switch the box back off and back on again'! | |
Re : Which broadband provider is best?Nigel Rimmer [28-November-07 2:23PM] 2 posts |
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October's "Which?" magazine placed Broadband/Phone packages in this order if that helps? | |
Re : Which broadband provider is best?Dan Moore [30-November-07 12:31AM] 538 posts |
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Thanks for posting that list Nigel... I'm on Virgin Media so that doesn't look too healthy does it | |
Re : Which broadband provider is best?Nigel Rimmer [30-November-07 4:04PM] 2 posts |
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Can't remember what percentage of each ISP's customers they questioned, but the table was showing customer satisfaction. There as always were diffences in the package, price etc but I don't think that factored into the results.
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Re : Which broadband provider is best?Dan Moore [2-December-07 4:39PM] 538 posts |
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It would be interesting to see how closely together they were all ranked for customer satisfaction - generally I would imagine most people rank themselves as reasonably unsatisifed to reasonably satisfied, though perhaps there are a few "extremely satisfied" customers out there! | |
Re : Which broadband provider is best?Stephen Edwards [6-December-07 1:25AM] 209 posts |
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I find Virgin not too bad... the problems come when the connection drops, basically all you can do is sit and wait it out (you can't really read the updates posted on the website when you can't connect to it after all!)
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Re : Which broadband provider is best?Gavinstevens [20-January-09 11:36PM] 21 posts |
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I've previously used Tiscali for my broadband connection and I have no complaints about their service. I had a couple of outages that lasted for a brief time but were usually resolved quickly and without the need to complain. I'm not with Utility Warehouse and their service is equally as good.
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Re : Which broadband provider is best?Afonso Alves [30-January-09 12:14PM] 6 posts |
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Ive been with Virgin for four years and had no problems.
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Re : Which broadband provider is best?Sasha Evans [3-February-09 11:58PM] 319 posts |
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The government is thinking of, or has, decided that all homes in the UK will have broadband by 2011 or some other implausibly short target... good luck with that!
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Re : Which broadband provider is best?Gavinstevens [6-February-09 10:41AM] 21 posts |
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They're always good for a chuckle. I'm still impressed with their plans for rollout of digital tv. The proposed changeover date was 2010 but in my area we won't be getting the freeview signal until 2012! So I guess they assume I'd be happy to pay my tv license for 2 years without any signal to receive. Thank goodness I'm a Sky customer!
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