One day BT will upgrade our exchange to Broadband, they've been promising
since July 27th but every time we get within 2 weeks of the date it shifts
another month. Possibly we'll get it this month. So it's worth looking at
possible suppliers.

Is OneTel any good for broadband?

--
G

Gribela wrote:
If there isn't any Broadband capability in your local exchange doubt if
going to Onetel will do you any good (if you can that is)

Can't comment on OneTel's broadband as such, but as a long time phone
customer I have OneTel email and I regret to say that their mail servers are
often rather temperamental.
Reputedly their Usenet are next to useless. The customer service has gone to
pot since it was taken over by Centrica, it just uses their common call
centre.
Centrica has put OneTel up for sale, and their BB prices aren't very
competitive.

I would suggest you have look at Plus.Net. I have had their BB for 2 and
half years now and can't fault it. Recent complaints on this group relate to
Plus.Net slowing down downloads of music, videos and binary files at busy
times, but us ordinary users see no effect on the service.
For just £14.99 you get 2Mb/s service and no fixed download limit on the
'Broadband Plus' tariff, just about the cheapest available. Plus.Net won
awards for customer service.
If you sign up with tem please use my ID 'wester' as a referrer and save me
few pence,
thanks, regards,
Martin

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 01:48:02 +0100, "Martin²" <never@give.one> wrote:

Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!

You're either a troll or fucking mental!

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 01:48:02 +0100, "Martin²" <never@give.one> wrote:

It's a shame that *many* others can.

Rubbish. It took me over TWO minutes to fetch only 550 headers from a
TEXT newsgroup the other day. And that's on a 2Meg 'Premier' account!

Usenet is *crippled* by Plusnet between the hours of 4pm and 1am.
You're better off on dial-up between those times if you wish to use
Usenet.

Cheap shouldn't necessarily mean rubbish.

Here I'll agree with you. When I have had to contact support they've
been quite good.

Tied into a twelve-month contract by any chance, Martin?

In article <434b0bc3$0$49790$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net>,
Martin² says...
spamming for a referral bonus.

unreliable mail servers and support in India is crap.forget them there
are better.

Martin² wrote:
<snip>

I would *never* consider PlusNet. You can compare many ISPs with ADSLguide
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/isps/compare.asp Zen Internet and freenetname /
Madasafish seem to do well.
--
Adrian A

Lol, recommend Plusnet, that's a good one, but I see you have adopted the
Minusnet attitude, who cares about the customer, so long as you are a little
better off.

These referrals should be stopped, your never going to get an honest
unbiased recommendation from someone asking for one.

Colin:
Obviously you haven't thought it trough !
In order for me to benefit, both the of us have to STAY with Plus.Net,
that wouldn't happen if either of us found the service unsatisfactory.
So where is the bias ?
Also it saves Plus.net money - much cheaper then TV adverts - so they can
keep their prices
lower then competition.
Regards,
Martin

Steve:
Read my post again !

Obviously NOT after 2 and half years, and I paid the activation fee upfront,
so there is nothing to stop me leaving, except the competition higher prices
(same service, any hiccups I have had are down to BT) !
Regards,
Martin

In article <434c66c3$0$29074$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net>,
Martin² says...
Oh yes we have...

You have a financial interest in someone taking up the offer in your
'recommendation'. That's SPAM. Not unbiased at all as you stand to
benefit.

So you are saying that PlusNet approve of people spamming on their
behalf?

That the PlusNet AUP concerning their spam policy is worthless, and they
actually PAY their users to do this?

Maybe PlusNet Support (who read this group) may wish to clarify whether
they have abandoned their antispam policy and referral credit T&Cs. Last
time I looked at them there was a strict provision against spamming for
referral credits.

FR

In article <434d016e$0$64070$892e7fe2@authen.white.readfreene ws.net>,
MinusNet says...

And most of those also have strict antispam policies as well. Posting
glowing reviews with a referrer link or code is no better than the
'affiliate' links in spam for porn sites or penis enlargement.

If the poster stands to make money from it, and the newsgroup charter
does not permit advertising, then it's spam. It's also worthless as an
impartial review of the ISP in question.

FR

On 12 Oct 2005 13:51, MinusNet <me@privacy.net> wrote:

Bulldog, E7Even, Eclipse, Pipex, have all, or still do, have some sort of
reward for bringing new customers. I expect TalkTalk to have, but didn't
check before posting.

So am I not allowed to comment on an ISP I am actively using, and which
provides me with a service I feel is good value ? I've used a number of
ADSL services over the past 45 months, on DataStream, IPstream, at 500,
1000 and 2000 kbps, and combinations of them at the same time (using 2
phone lines), so have personal experience of a range of companies, CS
and tech support staff, their news, mail, web services, and connection
stability/problems. Happy to comment most on the ISP I'm using and not
unhappy to comment on any shortcomings that might be found with some of
the others, but will note when I used them, and for how long.

So what's your 'take' on a signature entry ? It is common enough to have
a web URL in a signature, and whether that is to some site I've developed
or simply to promote some cause/software/service/hobbyist site, it rarely
gets covered in any newsgroup Charter, except to recommend limits on line
length and number of lines (from memory, up to 6 lines, up to 80 columns,
is in one of the RFCs, but I might be wrong!). Peter Morgan.
--

UK ADSL <http://tinyurl.com/5jpa4> - Happy to save cash with Plus.Net!!

Check reviews before using Bulldog, they are a terrible ISP.

It took 3 weeks to connect, worked for 2 weeks, then broke, I've now
been without a phone for 3 weeks Bulldog have done nothing about this,
they have failed to call me back every time they have said they would
(7 times). They have given 3 dates that it would be fixed (which it
never was). Im even having trouble cancelling....

In short NON-EXISTENT CUSTOMER SUPPORT - AND A POOR PRODUCT - I WILL
NEVER USE THEM AGAIN

On 27 Oct 2005 08:03 -0700, sprotty@hotmail.com wrote:

No complaints on internet use from one of my friends, on 8000 kbps a/c.