Best advice I can give you is to go to

www.adslguide.co.uk

There are good and bad ISPs out there, and people have a wide range of experiences, even if they're using the same ISP. Some never have a hiccup, and others have continuous woes.

Comments will be skewed. Very few praise ISPs when things go well, but plenty complain when things go wrong. I suppose that's human nature.

Hope the site helps you make your mind up.

A.

Contention is the amount of people you share your bandwidth with.

There are supposed to be two:

50:1 and 20:1, but I have been informed that most people usually get 30:1 regardless.

So if you have 4 meg broadband, you are sharing the 4 meg with either 50, or 20 other people at the exchange. Hence your download speed is never 4000kbps :)

Many companies have 50:1 for home, and 20:1 for office packages.

EDIT - also checkout the forums on www.moneysavingexpert.com not just for ADSL. Seems to help me out a fair bit.

If you are looking to play games in any way shape or form, dont touch Ar*eholes On Line or Tiscali with a 10 foot barge pole.

To be honest, adsl guide is a good site, plenty of companies out there now who dont demand a 12 month contract.

BUT beware UNLIMITED download accounts because simply, they are not. Most will have a 10 to 30 gig 'Fair Use Policy' on it, nothing worse than having errr downloaded some ummmmm DVD's that your ISP drops you and wont give a MAC so you end up living on dialup for 2 months after.

Colin

How comes tiscali are no good for games? This is the one i was going to get but i play WOW sometimes so it won't be no good to me? :?

Ah... me no rissen :lol: .


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Well, you're a bloke :wink:
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