hi all about to sign up to broadband at home

read lots of good things about plus net, but also see bt have best
price at the moment

plus net £21.99 per month but also have to pay activation fee and
modem (approx £70 extra)

bt £24.99 but no activation or modem fee

BT looks like the clear winner (ok it has 15gb download limit, but as
i understand that's a fairly decent amount)

anyone has an opinion either way... speak now!

thanks

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:02:53 UTC, rich_kanareck@yahoo.co.uk (k@ti)
wrote:

So, after 2 years with PlusNet you'll be ahead anyway. And with PlusNet
you get customer service.
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begin a new life...dump Windows!

Plusnet / Pipex / Nildram / Zen

Anything but BT or AOL !

Personally i`m on Pipex, and there`s a package that might do you (which
i`m on the equivalent of) - Solo 500, free setup, free modem, no download
limit or p2p blocks £23.44 a month

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Plusnet / Pipex / Nildram / Zen

Anything but BT or AOL !

Personally i`m on Pipex, and there`s a package that might do you (which
i`m on the equivalent of) - Solo 500, free setup, free modem, no download
limit or p2p blocks £23.44 a month

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www.adslguide.org.uk..... pronto !!

Dave

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k@ti wrote:
Plusnet without a doubt...

you could of course, use my referal code: mgillespie
But this has nothing todo with my recomendation (honestly). Plusnet
simply do have the best customer service going, and there are many other
great things: 250Mb all-frills webspace, a decent newsserver (took a
while to get there thou..), static IP etc etc...

I say take the £70 hit, and then make it up on the monthly savings, also
he Modem all ISP's give out, is pretty rubbush, you are better buying a
router..


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On 12 Jul 2004 in uk.telecom.broadband, "Bob Eager" wrote:

worth noting the setup fee is only 70 quid for one month contract terms,
but lower if an annual contract is acceptable... as a PlusNet customer,
it is also possible to get reductions when recommending the service, if
the new customer has a suitable account (commission ranges up to ~ 250p
for some business accounts) so with enough new customers one may pay no
fee at all... I guess the poster isn't likely to be swayed because of
the up-front costs, but the service is pretty good, IMHO :-) Peter

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Fixed IP as standard, generous webspace, IMAP support,
usage stats, CGI/PHP and MySQL database support too.

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 in uk.telecom.broadband, Kris wrote:

Where did the 24.99 price come from ? Just saw BT Yahoo page and it
suggests 26.99 for the 500 kbps service. Unless the OP means the BT
Broadband service (which has had some positive comments, perhaps as
a result of there being no news/mail/webspace included with it :-)

Yes, I'd vouch for them on mail filters and the mail + news a/c

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:47:32 UTC, poster <us-mail@rocketmail.com> wrote:

Yes...I'm not persoanlly with PlusNet (as many here will know) as I
prefer the 'techie' approach of AAISP. However, if anyone asks me to set
them up on broadband I use PlusNet...!

--
Bob Eager
begin a new life...dump Windows!

On 12 Jul 2004 in uk.telecom.broadband, "Bob Eager" wrote:

That's certainly another vote of confidence (even if I wasn't
using the service, as I still am, well over a year from first
getting it... and yes, I can think of 6 people who are on PN
(several on Home Surf, so no commission involved, just suited
their needs for an economic account) and none unhappy :-) PGM

"poster" <us-mail@rocketmail.com> wrote in message
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Indeed, plusnets version is 18.99 a month if your looking at BT Broadband (I
think)

The 21.99 account comes with decent webspace, email and all the rest of it -
their spam filtering and virus protection service is also included now and
well worth it. Plus no caps, excellent service.

You will also find there are lower prices for capped service if you want
that. If you want decent service with proper pricing (not silly subsidies
like the mobile phone market) and real knowladgable customer support (i.e.
staff with degrees in networking type cources and experience, not GCSE
english at grade C or above (or below) that are left without training and
only a script to follow).

Sam
(very satisfied Plusnet customer for 5+ years)


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Personally I'd take the yearly contract. If you have to leave before the
year is up you only pay the difference between the monthly contract and the
yearly contract anyway i.e. £11.75. The chances are that you will stay with
them anyway as they are top notch.

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thanks for all the responses. sounds like plus net has to be the
choice then

ok now some really newb like questions - apologies in advance!

1. do i need to get their modem? assume it's simpler to pick one up
on tott court road
2. do i in fact need to get a modem at all given that i have one
already in my pc (tornado) which i use for dial up or do i need a
special adsl one?
3. i'll be moving in the next couple of months. shouldn't be a
problem to transfer the account should it?

thankyou all you've been very helpful

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:32:22 UTC, rich_kanareck@yahoo.co.uk (k@ti)
wrote:

Entirely up to you.

ADSL modems are completely different. Also investigate routers.

Yes, it will be a problem. The contract is tied to the physical line.
Wait until you move. It's hardly worth getting a short term contract.
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Bob Eager
begin a new life...dump Windows!

On 13 Jul 2004, in uk.telecom.broadband, "Bob Eager" wrote:

Yes, it would be daft to go ahead (even with buying the ADSL modem/router
which is what many would recommend - eg from Dabs or Ebuyer) without being
sure the new home has a line suitable for ADSL... But perhaps a trial of
the "one month contract, no setup fee, no cancellation fee" services is a
gamble the OP might like to try... would need very careful reading of
T+C and probably giving notice at 5th week or so... Peter M.

news.plus.net wrote:
Any advice on choosing *between* the Insight Internet brands of Plus, F9
and Free-Online ?
Or just take the one offering the least stupid account name ?
I am going for a dial-up replacement so heading for the £14.99 @ 1Gb,
and paying the upfronts upfront is fine for me.

Any others to consider for that user profile ? DD payment option required.

ta
Bill
(Who will return with more newbie questions in the next week or so I
should think)

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:34:57 +0100, Bill
<ngaccount@genLUNCHEONMEATBANsheet.co.uk> wrote:

Hi Bill,

We are not owned by Insight anymore (they still hold some of our
shares though) as we floated as a Plc yesterday.

The three vISPs we run are pretty much identical, however the user
logons, email addresses and server names are different.

email wise it will be either:

postmaster@username.plus.com

postmaster@username.f9.co.uk

or

postmaster@username.free-online.co.uk

I would say, that PlusNet has the most customers and we generally only
offer those customes a beta testing (if you would be interested in
that aspect) platform for trying out new servers/services.

All 3 vISPs offer the account you are referring to and you can happily
pay by DD, however to speed up the order I would recommend putting the
first payment on a credit card otherwise we have to wait for the DD to
become active before we can place your order and this will delay the
order by about 5 working days.

Kind regards

Luke
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"k@ti" <rich_kanareck@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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I can vouch for the fact that BT "support" is complete rubbish. Basically,
if you do something remotely off their plan (e.g. use a router) then you're
on your own. To get a feel for what you get (or rather don't get) by way of
support, click around their "support "pages at
http://www.bt.com/btbroadband/ns_pre...PORT&src =bbs

(along with a Flashturbatory pile of arse on the website, there is also
telephone support - a premium rate line with some bod reading off a script,
no support forum and basically nothing in the way of customer service that
you can think of)

Now compare these with Plusnet's
http://www.plus.net/support/connecting/index.shtml

(the support forum is triple-top, the phone support is standard rate and
usually excellent)

Well worth the 70 suid up front.

Jonathan