Uk based AH'ers - which ISP ????????

[Sparks]

214th - thankyou VERY much for that thread - I missed that one.  Defiance was/is in exactly my position - I had Surftime with BTconnect for business and when they ditched Surftime I went to BTConnectAnytime.  All was ok for the first month but now it is complete s**t,  timeouts anywhere from 15 mins to 2 hrs.

So .... Demon is a non starter,  NTL is not doing cable modems in Peterborough (even though we had digital TV and thier phone in the house a year ago),  Telewest won't serve me because we are in an NTL area,  BT sucks,  so much for President Blair's connected Britain  

Well I'm going to try Nildram again and find Tiscali - lets see where we go from here.

Sparks

[Sparks]

UPDATE :-  spoke to NTL finally and wooohooo cable modems are coming to Peterborough in January - £14.95 for the lowest digital package (ah well - it'll backup Sky and we can tape one channel and watch another   ),  then £25 for the 512 kbs access (128 is £15) so for £40 p/m, + £15 p/m to keep oue analogue BT normal home phone,  we get another phone line and broadband permanent on (thats against £29 p/m for Home Highway and £29 p/m for BTConnect anytime) So thats the way I'm going to go   - hope this works and I have to put up with BT till late January.

Thanks for the pointers everyone especially 214th <S>

Sparks

[airbull]

Cool thread. Lots of good info.
I use Tisclai at the moment. Tried most. Freeserve used to be good but since the new netwok it went crap so I switched. I use ISDN on single channel most of the time that way I can use anytime acco bigtoe. I couldnt find an IP that would allow u to use both channels on isdn without incuring 2 call. Bt, freeserve & tiscali all have a seperate number for 2 channel isdn connects which incure the 2 call charges.
The fastest I found was Gateway which detect your isdn & auto runs the 2 channels.
Thanks to this thread & hearing Peterborough was getting ADSL I thought I would give it a try again to see if I could now get it.
ADSL up before christmas   ( I must be on every mailing list for info on when it would be available & still I found out here  

[Revvin]

Thats great news Sparks, I've enjoyed good connections to Aces High even on the 64k cable connection I had when I beta tested their cable service in Cardiff. Now I have the 512k, the pings are the same (obviously) but I also have a nice fat pipe to download down.

 

[214thCavalier]

Sparks one note of caution, when i joined NTL about 4 years ago i was promised Cable modems would be available soon, which was the only reason i had the Digi telly and phone.
After 3 years of promises its coming soon etc i said Fek this i am going back to BT phones and got the ISDN HH system fitted.
NTL tried to get me to stay promising Cable modems would be up and running in the Peterborough area  by approx February.
Only thing is that was Feb 2001 and as you know it still has not arrived.
You may be lucky but personally anything they tell I don't believe.
Just dont get your hopes too high for Cable modems by a set date.
On to ADSL for Airbull you might want to visit this site  http://www.adslguide.org.uk/   it will help you to see who to use as your ISP for ADSL.

Update for today if you just joined Nildram today AH is virtually unplayable 25% and upwards PK loss. However its caused because they are changing there peering with Linx in preparation for a new 155 mb pipe, if your using it now the current performance is NOT normal  

[ 12-10-2001: Message edited by: 214thCavalier ]