UK ISP Providers

[JMacD263]

currently i have a really bad/slow internet speed (thanks BT)

does anyone know of a good isp for the north of Scotland?

any help would be great

[deadone]

yeah im also with bt.. my dl speeds are not bad, depends on the time of day as well . but my upp speeds a little to be desired.. so i no what your concerns are, im also looking for a new one when my contract with bt expires.
i was gonna try bethere
https://www.bethere.co.uk/ pro package which is still cheaper than my bt one..

maybe ask them etc..
or you could try these
http://www.thomsonlocal.com/find/Intern ... /Scotland/

[JMacD263]

Thanks Deadone i will have a look

[Bob Garage]

problem with BT is that they throttle torrent speeds during the day/weekends. So you only get good speeds after midnight. Its a pain in the arse.

I'm currently with BT on 18 month contract (12 months in) as soon as thats up I'm switching to sky. If you have Sky TV, their basic internet package is (was?) free, and the unlimited/best package is just a tenner a month.

[deadone]

yeah i have sky. the packages they do are not in my area which sucks, im on the hunt as like you said, bt cap everything.
i have also spoken to bt about the capped speeds and i was told by a member of the support team if you pay for unlimited downloads etc. then no matter what they shouldnt at any time cap your speeds during peak hours. i have informed them that if it carries on once my 18months is up, about 6 more to go i think im going elsewere to spend my £25

[Bob Garage]

i have also spoken to bt about the capped speeds and i was told by a member of the support team if you pay for unlimited downloads etc. then no matter what they shouldnt at any time cap your speeds during peak hours.

thats crap. i pay for the unlimited package, but my bandwidth is capped between about 10am and midnight. its a real pain.

When I had my BT line installed 12 months ago, I originally intended to go with Sky Broadband. But when I rang Sky up I was told BT had only given my a 125K line and I needed to get them to upgrade it first before I could sign up. So i rang BT and asked for the upgrade and was told "you can only have your lin eupgraded if you sign up to our broadband for 18 months"! What a fucking con. So in 6 months time when my contract is up I will be ditching BT for sky.

[LeperMessiah26]

We are currently using BT Broadband, but the download speeds are such toss, its taking 3 days to grab a 350MB TV show download. They slow your speeds down during the day, and also if they think you are a heavy downloader, which we aint

We had no probs with Tiscali, but when we moved flats, BT was the quicker option

So, apart from those two providers, can anyone recommend any others, that dont slow your DL speeds??

[Bob Garage]

If you have Sky TV, sky's unlimited package is £10 a month.

I'm switching to that once my 18 month contract iwth BT is up as I agree with you, they throttle bandwidth during the day and its a big pain in the arse!

BTW... going to merge this with the other UK broadband thread in the tech forum

[deadone]

yeah i was thinking about sky as soon as its available in my area.
only real choice i have is virgin but my inlaw has this and its seems very slow.
bethere.com looks quite good but i dont no any1 who has used it

[metmum]

What else is there besides sky, I'm not given that greedy bastard murdock any more money. And I don't have cable in our area so virgin a no go