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[Vitalis]

Zarf-

Congratulations, you are in a broadband enabled area.
Click here to compare packages available to you.
However, there is another service on your phone line (e.g. ADSL, LLU, DACS, etc) that would prevent you from ordering a new ADSL connection.

The following services are available in your location:
BT Wholesale ADSL
BT Wholesale ADSL Max
BT Wholesale SDSL
AOL LLU
TalkTalk (CPW) LLU
Sky Broadband / Easynet LLU
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Please select the options on the left for more information about broadband availability at your location.

Deadly-
I got the postcode of my exchange from SamKnows and then plugged it into googlemaps with my postcode and asked for directions, by road it was something like 1.2miles.

BT Estimates my speed at 6, I can't get Be.

[Zarf]

Vit - You're in a Virgin Media area apparently, switch to them. Cable is awesome, low pings and you get the speed you pay for.

[Junta]

BT have finally reached the god awful p*ss poor bottom level of customer service for me.

After having a spat with them last year over changes to my billing (un-announced changes), and some rude customer service agents, I phoned up their service team to see what offers they could make me in order to retain my custom. The agent couldn't seem to grasp the concept of a customer who had previously experienced bad service, wanting a deal or discount to stay as a customer. To cut a long story short, I told them to F right off.

God help me, I'm trying TalkTalk because of the much cheaper deal.... I hope it works out.

[Millicent Bystander]

BT have finally reached the god awful p*ss poor bottom level of customer service for me.

God help me, I'm trying TalkTalk because of the much cheaper deal.... I hope it works out.

We tried TalkTalk.... BT were actually better (yes they truly were awful, cost us a fortune too).  We are with Sky for phone and broadband and so far we have had no problems

[Hzza]

We are with Sky for phone and broadband and so far we have had no problems

+1 for Sky, in the 2 years(ish) we've been with them I haven't had any problems whatsoever. I think the net went down once a couple of weeks ago but it was for like 15 mins.

[mandl]

I ma with BT no problems , however we do follow the advice on http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/phones/cheap-broadband

For example in january this year i phoned BT and asked for my MAC code. I immediately got put through to "the negotiation" department and now enjoy unlimited downloads for £15 per month happy days and no connection issues stable speed (not ultra fast but good enough to play TF2 with four other PC's on the net.

[Millicent Bystander]

Did the same with Orange and got a new broadband box, 6 months free broadband and then paid £10 a month after that.

[egg]

Did the same with Orange and got a new broadband box, 6 months free broadband and then paid £10 a month after that.

I did exactly that when I moved out of my parents house.  I phoned orange to say I was moving and wanna cancel it, n they offered the exact same deal above, so I changed the dd details to my parents bank, and happy days

[mandl]

Did the same with Orange and got a new broadband box, 6 months free broadband and then paid £10 a month after that.

I did exactly that when I moved out of my parents house.  I phoned orange to say I was moving and wanna cancel it, n they offered the exact same deal above, so I changed the dd details to my parents bank, and happy days

Excellent just asking for your MAC code can lower the price be nice if they came to you with the offer first though

[Vitalis]

Vit - You're in a Virgin Media area apparently, switch to them. Cable is awesome, low pings and you get the speed you pay for.

Except people in my area who are on Virgin have had shit service and to get a comparable price I'd have a download cap…

[Zarf]

Vit - You're in a Virgin Media area apparently, switch to them. Cable is awesome, low pings and you get the speed you pay for.

Except people in my area who are on Virgin have had shit service and to get a comparable price I'd have a download cap…

Fair enough if Virgin is shit in your area. The caps really arn't that bad though, I was still pulling down around 300GB a month no problem. Just set a scheduler so you only download overnight, most US TV shows are released in the early mornings anyway so with RSS triggered downloads they are waiting for me when I wake up.
The caps are only short term daily affairs too and even when limited you still have a good enough service for normal browsing and streaming video ... 10Mb caps down to 2.5Mb/s which is still faster than the service I get on my home ADSL.

If you were downloading 24/7 even taking caps into account you can pull down 71.5GB/day on Virgins 10Mb as opposed to 43.2GB/day on an uncapped 4Mb line.

Are they really that bad in your area that your neighbours can't even beat the 4Mb you are getting with ADSL?

[Brahms]

How do people know their speeds?

[Vitalis]

Not sure, tbh the only person I know with Virigin is Scroggs and he's about 10-15 min walk away. His internet is shocking.
Don't think I have any neighbours that do any real downloading, so the only way I could find was if I could pick up their WiFi, find out if it's Virgin and highjack it!

Sky won't let me check my monthly download as I'm on unlimited, any other way to find out?

I don't really like leaving my PC on overnight, it proper heats my room up xD, most of the intensive downloading I do is when I go out or when I'm not gaming online (so anytime really).

@Brahms www.speedtest.net

[Officer Dibble]

God help me, I'm trying TalkTalk because of the much cheaper deal.... I hope it works out.

I'd suggest Freedom2Surf instead. They're owned by TalkTalk but provide business broadband, so the service and support are really very good.

[Vitalis]

God help me, I'm trying TalkTalk because of the much cheaper deal.... I hope it works out.

I'd suggest Freedom2Surf instead. They're owned by TalkTalk but provide business broadband, so the service and support are really very good.

That who you're with atm? (Probably wouldn't matter for you too much considering you pretty much live at the exchange :p)