Have a look at Zen or Nildram. Two of the best IMO. I dunno their addy but should be easy to find on Google.

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by Ethan
Have a look at Zen or Nildram. Two of the best IMO. I dunno their addy but should be easy to find on Google.

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www.nildram.co.uk. We're with them: £16 per month for a 2Mb connection with a 1Gb download limit (you can buy extra Gbs for 99p each). The unlimited package is £26 per month I think. I've never had a problem with them. You don't even need to click anything to connect

and it's a 30 day contract too, so you can get out at any time.

Most adsl providers provide a pretty stable network (mainly because most of them use the BT infrastructure). The quality of service is mainly dependent on things like "how full is your virtual path" etc as if you have an overtaxed local exchange no provider will be able to provide a high standard adsl service. Another point is your local hardware - if you want stability don't buy the cheapest of the cheap adsl modem / router. Of course you'll save a few quid but having to manually reset your modem every other week really gets on your nerves

At the moment there is no real reason to go for a provider with a strict low cap. Although you might not think you'll be using it very much all those Anime series you'll be able to find online might get awfully tempting And paying per gb really isn't the idea of "proper" broadband. Providers like Zen and Nildram both offer good service for around the 26 quid a month mark with no or a generous cap (nildram is 50gb a month with unlimited usage off peak), but there are many providers out there.

Presuming you're going to be with a provider thats using the BT infrastructure and there is no local loop unbundling available (which I highly doubt in your area) you will see that all internet providers will offer an up to 2mbit service pretty soon now as BT is upgrading all lines to 2mbit or the maximum that the line can handle. If you are used to dailup 2mbit is a huge leap.

I use https://www.e7broadband.com/packages.html if you don;t mind paying up front. No limits at all and 512K fro £10pm. On the couple of times the system has been down (which didn;t effect me as I was at work anyway) we all got a couple of free months.

Anyone but Tiscali!!!!!!

I don't know if it only applies to new customers but Telewest wrote to me to let me know I'm being upgraded from 4mb to up to 10mb (will probably work out less than that but you never know) for £35 a month, which is a reduction on what I'm paying now. No bandwidth limit either

OK here's another question, what actually can you download with 1Gb? We're not really into downloading so Idon't think we're going to be downlaoding movies, we just need to know how much we're actually going to be using?

and again as long as it's faster than dialup, that's a plus, but we don't need uber-geek speeds, just uber-reliability.

I'm not entirely sure what constitutes 1Gb, but we keep on going over it!

Wanadoo have a calculator which allows you to estimate what your usage will be based on what you do online and how long you do it for though, which might be useful

1GB consists of around 1000MB's of data. Just to give you an impression of how much data that is:
* 694 floppy disks or,
* 1.4 Cd (700mb) or,
* 0.2 Single layer DVD (4.5GB).

In other words this isn't very much at all. 1GB of data is just about enough if you really don't do anything besides visiting some sites and read your email. If you want to play games online or listen to some internet radio or use programs like Skype to talk to people over the internet (free phonecalls ) or even start browsing sites like www.m90.org (contains a collection of funny / painful / dirty etc movies) just for laughts you easily go over the 1GB limit within a week (or even an evening).

In other words 1GB of traffic really is only enough if you don't want to do anything besides read your email and visit some normal websites. And although you might not do these things now because on dailup it is so slow once you get the speed all these things become possible and really are what makes internet fun

(Edited by Chambler 09/10/2005 16:30)

Zen are good, but they're more expensive than most of the others 2meg is £35 a month for example, but the customer service is second to none and they have no limits, although that's probably over-kill for what you want..

www.adslguide.org/isps/summarylist.asp is a big list of the total cost over a year, including any sign-up fees etc, bare in mind, you probably won't get any cable services, so that rules out Telewest Blueyonder, and NTL, there may be a few you can't get either as they only service specific area, such as be, bulldog, easynet etc..

Eclipse, Nildram, and Pipex all have good track records

Make sure you check for any restrictive t&c's before you sign up, most isp's should have an unlimited 1meg service for around £20 a month, and only be subject to a 30 day rolling contract (so you can cut your losses and change supplier if they turn out to be crap for whatever reason..), then you might want to check out if they have a set-up fee, and if they supply you with a free modem or router (although that's not too much of an issue if you ask some of us crazy techy types who seem to have a knack of collecting various bits of hardware over the years )

Hope that helps chap

Zen rocks my sox 16gig/day runs very nicely. I did use Nildram for 18 months but left when they went to the stupid peak time downloads of 50gig/month and changed their usenet access, so I moved, but the time I did have with them I didnt have any problems. Just that Pipex bought them out and their T's & C's may be a little more stringent than they used to be.
If you want another good ISP metronet is good. Pay a low monthly fee and get so many gig thrown in. If you use more, your bill goes up but is capped to what the likes of zen charge for a full uncapped service.

But as others have said it depends on how good your line is. I am around 1.5 miles from my exchange but the line is more like 4Km long and 2meg only just about works. I get a drop out every 4-7 days usually, but I can live with that and autoreconnect.

My 2p's worth

Im with Pipex and dont have any real complaints, especially now that they have upgraded to 1meg for free.