Broadband provider

[Tman1982]

Hi all i will be moving into a new house in the next couple of months and i am planning on getting broadband setup but i am unsure of which provider i should use. All of the main ones (bt, orange, aol) are about the same price but there are also the sky and virgin packages where you can get tv included as well. so people who would you reccomend and do you think that the tv packages are worth it????

thanks
Tman

[-=BigD=-]

Personally I use BT, but think its way overpriced. I pay �35 ish a month - line rental, braodband and calls. I reckon the cable TV/Phone/BBand packages are worth it but as for which one? I dunno!

[Ethel]

I pay �20 a month for broadband and cable tv from Virgin Media.

I don't have a land line - I use VOIP.

�30 for broadband, tv and telephone with Virgin, plus the price of phone calls.

Sky looks cheaper - �27, I think - but you need to add the �11 approx BT phone line on to that.

[198x]

For broadband alone, I would highly recommend Eclipse Broadband : http://www.eclipse.net.uk/index.cfm?id=fixedma in_res

From �14.99 a month you have a 20GB download limit (only from 6pm-12am, any other time it's unlimited).

As for the whole combi deals, I know that Sky broadband (with deals) came 3rd from last in the Which? magazine trail. And also the Virgin package (standard) is pretty much like freeview but with the addition of Sky Movies and Sky Sports.

Personally I'd just stick to broadband at the moment.

[Tman1982]

Thanks for all your responses i handt realised about the extra phone rental with sky so i think thats out of the equation now.

Thanks again
Tman

[knobbynonuts]

Just a word of warning here aviod tiscali like the plauge and that is not just my opinion there have been loads of bad reports not only on here but many other sources and the year that I had to spend with them was the most awfullest of my life for being online, and even now after I left them over a year ago a debt collecter has conntacted me saying that they are chasing me on behalf of tiscali saying that I owe them �82 even though I demanded a letter from tiscali when I left them sAYING THAT i HAD PAID ANY MONEY THAT I OWED THEM (whoops bl o ody caps lock) and they did send this but its been well over a year now so still dont have the letter and this is the first that I have been informened of this money that I am supposed to owe, and I have heard of this sort of thing happening to other people about tiscali....

[smiffy65]

try this site you will get all the help you need very imformative

http://www.skyuser.co.uk/

[time2fly]

see http://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk

they have a review section as well as helpful advice.

[Tman1982]

thank you all for the advice think i'll have to sit down and look at which package would be right for me

Thanks again
Tman