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"Internet Broadband - Which one??"

I am currently playing as many games as I can, I am a self confessed game addict, in multi player mode as single player is getting boring however the lag time on the internet is awful therefore I am looking for the best deal in Broadband.
I have been recommended telewest(also known as Blueyonder) but feel that £33 a month is a bit much and there was no mention of connection fees.

Can anyone give me any advice?

Please.

Thanks for all your input people, unfortunatly NTL haven't got cable laid in my area so that's out immediatly. Rakuga, thanks for the info however I never had an external modem so don't tease........

Perhaps it's my ignorance but how, if you are constantly hooked up to the internet how can you get no signal, or invalid user name or password.

Like I said this is not me argueing just trying to understand.

So far it is Pipex v. Telewest.

I'm getting married in three weeks time so the likleyhood of me getting Broadband soon is debatable, perhaps I'll wait a couple more months and wait for someone to do it cheaper(he hopes).

cjh wrote:
>Though personally I'm not a big fan, I have
> it and am getting a 'no signal' a lot and they don't seem to want to
> respond to my E-mails. It maybe a BT problem, but still, not my
> favourtie ISP, but the cheapest.

I agree. Some of my friends think it's brilliant, but compared to my mates Claranet ADSL on a good day, it's poor.
Sometimes I get invalid username and password, other times it randomly connects/disconnects and other times the modem just won't work. Plus I only get 30k a sec when I should be getting around 40k a sec, and I get pings of 100 rather than 20 what I should be getting...

Ide get broadband but my parents wont pay for it :P

cookie monster wrote:
> I would love even the opportunity to get broadband, but my exchange
> isnt enabled. And my barrage of emails to BT doesnt seem to be
> working, oh well i will need to keep at it :)

What area are you in Cookie Monster ?

I would love even the opportunity to get broadband, but my exchange isnt enabled. And my barrage of emails to BT doesnt seem to be working, oh well i will need to keep at it :)

Avatar wrote:
> as many people have said, use piplex (www.xtreme.pipex.net
> "space" /adsl/sales/pricing/ "space"
> solo-index.shtml). its ceaper than the rest and the sevice is better.

How do you know that theres nothing wrong with my service and Telewest are going even faster to T1 making twice as fast as the dinosaurs you lot are useing so P~

as many people have said, use piplex (www.xtreme.pipex.net "space" /adsl/sales/pricing/ "space" solo-index.shtml). its ceaper than the rest and the sevice is better.

87swanders wrote:
> I have Telewest, but I get my cable and phone lines from them, AND we
> had it installed when there was no connection fee, so THERE.
>
> But it's ace.

P~

I have Telewest, but I get my cable and phone lines from them, AND we had it installed when there was no connection fee, so THERE.

But it's ace.

BTW i here the conection fee was £50 but it might be half price at £25 so check if you are interested