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**Halo** · 16-09-2003, 09:05

Alternatively, pay Pipex ?18 to sign and up and for the modem and pay ?20 a month.

I'm not sure about minimum contract though.

**Super Stu** · 16-09-2003, 09:12

That's a cheesy USB modem both packages provide, no?

**JibberX** · 16-09-2003, 09:36

NoooooooooooOOOOOoooooooooooooooOoooooooooooooo

Don't do it, BT are officially the worst ISP in the country, Pipex are ok, as are A&A.

**mid** · 16-09-2003, 09:45

Also, the modem you get from BT is the worst one on the entire planet. Get yourself a proper router and a proper ISP. Its well worth the small extra outlay in the long run.

However, don't do it until you move - BT won't let you just move it with you, and will want to charge you the best part of a hundred smackers to turn on the line at your new place.

**choddo** · 16-09-2003, 11:06

virgin offer 1month contract.

Freeserve offer free install & modem (yik) - not sure about min contract length

**eASY aDDICT** · 16-09-2003, 11:21

I find it quite remarkable when people slag off BT when it come to Broadband etc...

Who do you think people like Pipex etc buy their lines from????

Try BT Wholesale...

They own most of the phonelines in the UK.

**Roost** · 16-09-2003, 11:22

Actually, with BT Broadband you don't get the modem, its BT Openworld where you get the modem. When you sign up with BT Broadband you can pick to have there modem or not. I didn't and got a D Link modem instead.

Some of these other ISP's must be amazing, my bt broadband line hasn't been down once since october last year and i get 60k/s every night.

**eASY aDDICT** · 16-09-2003, 11:29

LOL @ Roost...

I know what you mean mate

Never had any real problems with BT I think the other ISP's install the POP at the end of the road for their customers!!!!

**JibberX** · 16-09-2003, 11:30

eASY aDDICT, BT are the worst ISP in the country, thats a fact, ALL ADSL runs over BT lines that is also a factoid. However you can choose your ISP, i.e. Internet Service Provider, you can't choose the medium, if you want ADSL that is. The ISP are the people you call when it goes wrong, when you want upgrades, when you want a service.

BT shouldn't be selling ADSL. It's like Captain Birdseye being the only one who can sell Grills to cook his fish fingers.

**goldbricker** · 16-09-2003, 11:32

OK I'll rule out BT broadband. I'm looking at Pipex at the moment and they seem pretty good. The Pipex package called Xtreme Solo2Go 500 offers a USB modem with it the only thing with that is that when I was with NTL the cable modem I had was connected via USB and it was ****ing awful and would regularly crash my PC. Once I connected the modem via ethernet it worked fine so I am really weary of USB modems. Are they usually this flaky or was it just NTLs **** hardware?

**Roost** · 16-09-2003, 11:32

But that doesn't make their service BT BRoadband anyworse than anybody elses, that just makes them bastards who want to control everything.

**Super Stu** · 16-09-2003, 11:37

Is that the BT broadband service which costs an arm and a leg for the pipe only (ie no email/hosting etc)?

Irony abound that you can buy a faster, cheaper, better packaged service from a number of other places.

I'd probably go Demon or Nildram, as I rather like my static IP.

**Roost** · 16-09-2003, 11:44

Aye thats the one, my years up in a month or two, but by then i'll be moved in with the missus and she's got NTL 600k, so god help me.

**eASY aDDICT** · 16-09-2003, 11:56

JibberX,

I can see your point don't get me wrong BT are not the best for customer service. Having said that I have a BT Business 500 line with static IP and have never had any problems at all with it and have never needed to contact BT.

And in most cases problems with lines are usually BT's fault so being with a 3rd party ISP with better customer service is not going to fix that.

Just my opinion however

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