Hi Adam,
I would recommend Utility Warehouse which is Which magazine's voted best by
home phone and broadband bundle.
If you can email me your postcode I can let you know exactly how much it
will cost each month, and I would be happy to assist you in setting it up
for you as I am also a distributor.
Richard Mace
On 4 April 2011 11:15, Dr A. J. Trickett <adam.trickett@???> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I currently have Talk-Talk as my ISP at home, originally starting with
> Nildram
> and as them changed hands many times (Pipex -> Tiscali -> TalkTalk). It's
> fair
> to say that the customer service standard has dropped with each take over
> and
> while the monthly cost has fallen a little. I'm coming to towards the end
> of
> my most recent 12-month contract and I'm considering alternatives. I'd also
> love to get rid of BT at the same time an even more evil company...
>
> For ISP I know that Zen and Andrews and Arnold have a good reputation how
> are
> UK Free Software Network or thePhoneCo-op?
>
> During the week day 8am - 6pm my home network ticks over and pretty much
> doesn't do much, I SSH into it now and then and email is pulled down to it
> by
> fetchmail but that's about it. At the evening we do normal browsing and I
> tend
> to run aptitude to update local machines. The only heavy downloading I do,
> distro ISOs, BBC iPlayer tv and radio programs takes place between midnight
> and 6am.
>
> I note that some ISPs provide "unlimited" downloads at night, others do
> not. I
> probably pull less than 10 GiB a month during the day, but possibly over 1
> GiB
> a night (if there is some good HD stuff on the Beeb).
>
> I'd also like to get rid of BT for my phone line - I hate the company - in
> that situation I'm just looking for a reliable telco with cheap
> international
> rates (France) and I don't care about UK calls day time or evening as I
> almost
> never make any calls these days. Any suggestions?
>
> Just looking for current opinions and suggestions, given that the only
> option
> I have is an unbundled BT exchange - so no competition from any one else...
> and no ADSL2+/VDSL or Virgin cable. Who ever I pick will have to run their
> service over BTs rusty wires and via their antique ADSL DSLAM...
>
> --
> Adam Trickett
> Overton, HANTS, UK
>
> When a Microsoft product is the lesser of two evils, you know for
> sure that there's something fishy going on.
> -- anon
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