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EvilNeileeeee · **Posted:** Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:10 pm

My brother is looking to get broadband (ADSL) and I wanted to know if anyone has any views about companies to avoid or seek out.

Ultimately he wants to play games and download, so no download limit is quite important.

I was thinking of plusnet, but I think they've enforced a download limit.

Thanks

Neil

Xui · **Posted:** Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:46 pm

no idea tbh

but def not BullDog

Sift · **Posted:** Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:23 am

I'm guessing that you already know of this site but I'll post it incase:
http://www.adslguide.org

mongoose · **Posted:** Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:05 am

Freedom2Surf or Eclipse

Both are the pricier end of the market but tbh I wish I had gone with one of those two.

If ALL he wants to do is surf and game then the p[lus.net £15 pm adsl is fine otherwise I would recommend he check out the two above suppliers.

Freedom to Surf are the only totally uncapped provider in the country - you can download as much as you like. Having said that I suspect that download tarrifs will hit all isp's sooner or later - p2p traffic can simply eat up the bandwidth you purchase.

Check out the adsl guide site that Sift posted - you can compare multiple providers by user experience. Eclipse and Freedom2Surf always come out high - very high.

M

KuifJe · **Posted:** Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:14 am

Tell him to move to NL, 20 mbit ADSL, no bandwidth limit, for under 25 euros

forensic · **Joined:** Wed Dec 18, 2002 11:56 am **Posts:** 2756

and you wonder why all the WoW servers are down?? Bloodys dutchys downloading the whole internet 10 times a night.

And pipex arent that bad, bit pricey but uncapped 1mb for 23quid

Beans · **Joined:** Sat Dec 13, 2003 11:36 am **Posts:** 4202

I used to have freedom2Surf, put me off ADSL all together, it was a few years ago mind but their software caused frequent crashes, we used a 2k box at first which needed a reboot every 2 hours, a brand new xp box would crash everyday evntually we settled on a linux box and that only lasted about 3 days without crashing. They're the reason I'm still happy with NTL only had 2 problems with them, had hundreds with Freedom2Surf.

Calaen · **Posted:** Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:43 pm

Blueyonder have some nice deals out at the moment with no dl limits.

Beans · **Joined:** Sat Dec 13, 2003 11:36 am **Posts:** 4202

But have been bought by NTL who do have limits. Something will have to change as I can't see them having some people with no limit and others with one.

Sift · **Posted:** Thu Oct 20, 2005 9:00 pm

I've been with NTL for 8 years. Never hit a limit. There again, I wouldn't recommend them either. When it's working it's great. When it's not, the service is shite.

Beans · **Joined:** Sat Dec 13, 2003 11:36 am **Posts:** 4202

Limits were only imposed with the recent upgrade and won't really be enforced until the end of the year or so.

vegas The Greek · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2005 6:21 pm

My dad has tiscali and he rarely has any problems.

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