Recommend me a good ISP

[Alrock]

AOL are totally pissing me about here, need another ISP so need recommendations....

Criteria:

Unlimited usage (I do a lot of torrenting, often easily doing 100GB a month).
Give me the speed I should be getting (Should be getting 6mbps from AOL but only getting 512kbps despite about £30 in phone calls to them & countless promises that it would be fixed).
Not Tiscali (fell out with them over slow speeds years ago) or Orange (they disconnected me with 2 days notice in the past for using too much of my UNLIMITED package).
Not overexpensive, say £25pm max.

Any recommendations? Especially from anybody in Castletown.

[Emeraldz]

how about plusnet?

[Alrock]

Thanks for the recommendation, will bare it in mind...

Thinking of going with BT at the mo, can anybody give me a good reason not to?

[Leanne]

All the lines are maintained up here by BT and they give priority to their own customers. If you go with one of the others and have problems you could find yourself waiting a long time... This is not the official viewpoint - just IME

[RecQuery]

All the lines are maintained up here by BT and they give priority to their own customers. If you go with one of the others and have problems you could find yourself waiting a long time... This is not the official viewpoint - just IME

Wrong, wrong, wrong... wrong, wrong, wrong. Your wrong, your wrong, your wrong.

Much as I dislike BT that's anticompetitive behaviour and not allowed, I don't think even BT would be that stupid; I know they're not having worked for two divisions of BT previously. The lines are maintained by BT Wholesale and Openreach, not by BT Retail the guys that sell broadband.

If there was even the slightest hint of this it would cause a storm.

Plusnet is unlimited but they traffic shape torrents and NZBs. I use Andrews and Arnold (AAISP), they're not for everyone though.

[Alrock]

Plusnet is unlimited but they traffic shape torrents and NZBs. I use Andrews and Arnold (AAISP), they're not for everyone though.

Thanks for the input... AAISP certainly do look like an interesting choice, well worth considering.

[bothyman]

I'm thinking of changing, I was thinking of Plusnet, but someone told me they slow your speed down at certain times ?? I was also thinking BT but all that small print loses me !!

[RecQuery]

Plusnet used to be their own company but BT bought them out and so had to honour their existing contracts, here's a guide to their traffic management.

The local exchanges are supposed to be upgraded soon (January 2012 - May 2012) and then there's that money the area got from the government for 'next generation' broadband, but I think it'll be wasted by consultants.

[bothyman]

Plusnet used to be their own company but BT bought them out and so had to honour their existing contracts, here's a guide to their traffic management.

The local exchanges are supposed to be upgraded soon (January 2012 - May 2012) and then there's that money the area got from the government for 'next generation' broadband, but I think it'll be wasted by consultants.

Thanks, I looked at that but it's all rather confusing to me, the simple question is are they any good ?? especially up here.

[RecQuery]

Thanks, I looked at that but it's all rather confusing to me, the simple question is are they any good ?? especially up here.

It really depends what you want to use it for.

[Dialyser]

I have been with BT for about 2 months now and so far so good. Used to be with Tiscali, which then became TalkTalk. Even on a good day with TalkTalk my speed would only reach 2mb, but was often much less.

Since being with BT never had speed under 4.5mb and normally is closer to 6mb. They are more expensive but I had become so frustrated that cost was no longer my main consideration. Also have free use of their Wifi hotspots which is great for my internet on my mobile phone.