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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Letchworth with a Lightsaber
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Yet another vote for Be/O2. Damn good connection, really cheap and I can thrash the hell out of it
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16-06-2009, 07:09
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The Last Airbender
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Pigmopad
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Probably swapping to O2 myself soon
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16-06-2009, 07:29
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The Last Airbender
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Pigmopad
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In fact, I just signed up
What's their wireless router like? Or should I stick with our current Netgear DG834G?
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16-06-2009, 07:52
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Infinite Loop
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The O2 Wireless box is good, we have a v2 one and I have to say the signal is excellent, don't have to reboot it that often.
As people have said, once you get it setup, change the DNS to OpenDNS and you'll be fine!
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16-06-2009, 08:34
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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Sky are reasonably good. Their infrastructure is very solid and they're very cash rich (I'm talking about the Infrastructure company here) but their customer facing people are to say the least a waste of space.
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16-06-2009, 08:47
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BBx woz 'ere :P
Join Date: Jan 1970
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I placed an order with O2 - £7.34 a month for 8meg - brilliant! There was no point in getting the 20meg package as the line can only sustain 10meg - I remember testing it with a BT friend of mine, we managed to get 11.7 out of it, but for the sake of an extra 2 meg and £3 a month I didn't see the point. 8meg is more than enough and I don't do many big downloads.
At last I'll have broadband at home again! 6 months of paaaaainful 2~3g connections, and a painful ghetto connection leeching off a neighbour (  ).
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16-06-2009, 08:50
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Exeter
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Does anyone have an opinion on which ISP to go with if you can't get any LLU services or cable? I'll be moving house some time over the summer and will have to give up Be, although I'll be about ten times closer to the exchange so hopefully won't notice much of a speed difference. Fast.co.uk seems to get very good reviews, but I'd also heard Entanet resellers are good.
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16-06-2009, 09:00
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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If you can't get LLU or cable then for it would be a no brainer - Zen. They are without doubt the best ISP I've used. Their tech support staff really know their stuff. If it wasn't for BT giving me a noisy line with stupid SNR I'd most likely still be with Zen.
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16-06-2009, 09:07
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BBx woz 'ere :P
Join Date: Jan 1970
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Yeah we used Zen in my old job - really really good, and as you say from a technical point of view very good too.
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16-06-2009, 09:10
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: JO01ou
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This is quite interesting, looking at O2, I'm outside their "O2's Broadband network coverage area" but within their "alternative O2 Home Broadband Access package".
Effectively that means it's more expensive and I can't get a static IP which I need.
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