Broadband providers

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I dunno where to put this but feel free to remove mods !

I'm just after a few different opinions on broadband. Mother has finally got her bum in gear and is thinking about the BT Yahoo package...I know a canny bit about broadband but from others I hear about dodgy connections and other little niggles.

Can you please advise a fast strong provider thank you please !

i can't comment as i work for bt selling bt & yahoo broadband....

word of warning tho if u use another provider & they u have problems they'll try to send u to bt to get it fixed but u need to speak to them!!!

oooooo a slight biased to BT, thats no prob, can you tell iz Ruth what the complaints lines are like? busy dead or just hot as hell all day long ?

I cudnt get BT coz they didnt have the connection in my area...apparently they need a certain number of people before they set up a connection or sumthing? i had to change my fone to telewest aswel and pay about £25 a month. Had no problems yet like.

ours ain't too bad from what i've heard....

i wasn't being biast i'm stating fact...the ammount of ppl who ring us up very pissed of that their $%&*"! broadband isn't working is unreal....when at the end of the day it isn't our problem...

i just tell them that if u had a $%&^)$+££ mobile would u ring ***&&$%%% to get it sorted if u had a problem!!!!

I sort of see what you are saying. Although its the same everywhere with companies being sold or merging or being bought for a penny, you just aint got a clue who to ring. Take O2 for example, they have sold to Vodafone, although all the literature my mam receives is O2, her network operator according to her phone is O2 and now O2 are making and selling mobiles.

WTF is going on? pure confusion thats what !

it's the companies telling them to ring us tho cos they can't b arsed to sort their problems out!!!

pls don't get me started tho i can rant on for hours bout this...

bit of advice tho if u decide to go with bt order it on line cos u get ur modem free where as if u place ur order over the fone it'll cost ya £40....

c how kind bt are to their sales staff!!

cheers lil lady.

will do, if i go for it but i'd still like to here from others what the score is with AOL, not Telewest cos I live in Alnwick, etc etc

grrr @ u living more out in the sticks than me & being able to get broadband b4 me!!!

nee botha just thought i'd tell u what i know...

i can tell ya the pc spec if ya need it!!!

Do you work at Westmoor and where in the sticks do you live. We have had bband since......my birthday I think it was.......3rd August !!

i live in a village called ebchester which is bout 5 miles from consett!!!

& i am so jealous....

but we only need 25 more ppl to register their interest & then for bt to confirm that these are still correct & then we'll hopefully get broadband & when we do i can get it cheap!!!

awww my heart bleeds for you...honest.

If you tell me your post code I'll jam the BT website with 'applications' from 'residents of the ebchester community'

Blueyonder all the way. and THATS from a BT engineer who went to Lazman's house to install BT ADSL. Even he said it was much more reliable. Why rely on grotty old telephone lines that give reduced signal quality when u can get cable.

soz ruth

tis ok...eeeeezzzzalad doesn't live in a telewest area & neither do i or i wud've had it ages ago!!

my mate who works with me has it & it rocks apparently!!!

it's all down to registering phone numbers...we're kinda lucky that all the old dears in the village are dying off so younger folkes are moving in & hey presto we're nearly there!!!!

All the old dears...dying off...sounds just like Alnwick...soon your council will realise that the town is getting younger and they need to update it and add facilities for the younger generation...just like Alnwick....soon...not now....but soon

tis ok rob...i know we are a pile of shite bu they i get apid to sell this stuff.....we're always advised that the customer should speak to the company they have the broadband thru & then they should contact bt.....they just tell them to ring us tho & we have to tell them to ring the company cos we can't deal with it...it's a catch 22 situation but u can diss bt all u like...they ain't doing me any favours atm!!!

I have BT Broadand 512k voyager modem only had 1 problem with it.

Pipex all the way...

www.pipex.com

£35 a month I think for the 1mbit dsl...

pipex are an EXCELLEND provider always have been, always will be