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My dad swears by plusnet which if you want basic broadband and phone as cheap as possible seems to be a good deal.
About £50 a month.
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Not sure they offer that extra prioritisation to new customers any more, though.
However, for work and for business clients we generally use Merula. A bit dearer than the high street, but people who actually know what they're talking about and don't fob you off with bullshit. Possibly helps that I have the MD on Skype, but I don't think so.
Failing that ICUK (now Cix) are pretty good, and if you want to go with a larger/better known option Zen or even Plus.Net.
BT, Sky, Virgin, etc. are really all just sides of the same shit coin - pile 'em high, low headline price, service to match, and actually not really that much cheaper (if at all) when the dust settles. For the large players, their pricing means if you happen to be a problematic customer (crappy line, dodgy cabinet, poor location or whatever) it's generally cheaper for them to just let you get pissed off and leave rather than do something about it.
Its definitely not the quickest, but seems to work ok for streaming Netflix/YouTube etc.
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Plusnet seems a decent deal.
Both claim 80Mb but Plusnet is by far the better speed despite being the same line. I get around 60-70Mb now whereas on BT I was struggling to get 5Mb most days, and that's with reconfiguring of channels.
So yeah, I definitely recommend full-fat Plusnet for £29 per month. They don't block certain torrent sites either, unlike BT. I'd still use a VPN though.
I moved my mobile over to Virgin at the same time and got a 10GB data plan for £12/month. The auxiliary mobile charges are extortion though (£5 per MB for roaming data in the US, or £5,000 per GB to put it another way)
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For instance: you might want to consider what traffic management/traffic shaping (throttling) the ISP uses.
Then you could also check the ISP’s upload speed as well as it’s download speed.
A question: could you, if you wanted, use your own modem? Pertinent if the ISP insist on providing their own hobbled old-tech cheapo modem, and you shrug your shoulders in despair.
Oh, another and another question: is the ISP you are considering, involved in filtering out content? Are you aware that the top four major ISPs have signed up to a voluntary code of practice meaning that customers have to 'opt out' of the ISP filtering to gain access to the blocked content.
Of course, it depends on what you’re criteria are for choosing an ISP, so feel free to ignore me and go for the cheapest.