Best Broadband provider?

[mrchapel]

Steer well clear of aol/talk talk unless you want conned into a 2 year contract

[speedybert]

I started off with Freeserve years ago which then became Wanadoo which then became Orange and in fairness I have had no trouble with the service.
Having said that I did change the original Broadband Modem to a Linksys Wireless Router a couple of years ago which has proved very reliable and on the one occasion I lost connection completely I phoned the helpdesk(UK based!thumbsup!)who were excellent.

I do know of people with Tiscali broadband that have no end of problems with the service and the modems.

One downside with Orange is that I have considered changing to a different provider and it is almost impossible to get away from them.They won't just cancel the account and give what I think is a departure code.(PUK with mobiles)

You keep getting transferred to different people (in India)none of whom seem able or willing to give you that information which ends up after about 10 minutes or so very !annoyed!

[Bob Singleton]

I'm with Virgin (NTL as was) via a set-top box. Like any company there are sometimes outages but these never last more than a couple of hours and are fairly rare (3 in the last two years).

I used to spend about ?350+ a quarter when I was on dial-up 6/7 years ago (I'd tried various broadband services such as BT, Tiscali and others, but they were all crap). Now I spend about ?250 a quarter for a 20mb fibre-optic broadband connection, V+ cable TV service (HD set top box that can record 2 channels whilst watching a third and over 140 channels of crap to choose from) and phone with unlimited local calls. !happy!

There may now be better deals with other suppliers, but I'm more than happy with what I've got and can't be fussed to change for the sake of maybe a couple of quid saved each month.

[Jacques]

It's not all fibre-optic though is it?