Im a moving house in next 4 weeks so ill be cancelling my BT OPENWORLD account and starting up another....im thinking of using NIldren as i can get free migration now and free transfer when i move .
Anyone know if there an ok I.S.P. or a big brother watcher type?

any input greatly appreaciated about Nildren or any other I.S.P. in the U.K.

Bulldogdsl are very, very cheap. It was a shambles getting connected, but since being connected, they delivered what they promised. Stable ith a router running round the clock, which to be fair, was sometimes beyond BTs capabilities! However, there customer support is apparantly terrible.

I expect something major to happen with them, they just got bought out by Cable and Wireless (its still ADSL only of course, but cable and wireless I think merged with NTL, where nthell is the home service, cable and wireless are a business company and service I hear is not bad).

With BT customer support was excellent, even if you are talking to "Craig" from "wes Yorkshire" who asks how you spell Leeds (aka. the help desk is in india )

There's pipex I think someone said were pretty good, but theres one that costs more than everyone else but wins hands down for support/ping. I just forget their names.

Anyway:
http://www.dslguide.org/

yeah its nildram that are the best Looking at bulldog reviews, you either get excellent service or you don't. It's a total split down the middle, however, its worth noting that the vast majority people that go onto these sites to do a reviews/ comments are those that are having trouble The rest like me don't bother with them

however, nilly are undoubtedly the most reliable and speedest in the uk, i think that's a fact not an opinion

edit: or if your like me this is what matters:
http://www.dslguide.org/isps/summarylis ... r=tco2048k
(be careful, cheap sometimes = capping)
Rated on the Scrooge scale

I got an e-mail from BTOW today saying that they are reducing the price of 512/256 to ?26.99 a month, BUT adding a cap of 15 gig per month However they are reducing 1 meg ADSL (no mention of u/l speed but I think it's still 256, can't be arsed checking the BT website) to ?29.99 which would be the mutts nuts but that will be capped at 30 gig per month. Dunno what I'm gonna do yet, got 6 months to make my mind up

hmm that not good, thought only the bare bones connection had caps with BT. not good at all then i'm with NTL and they 'forgot' about the caps they tried to introduce because of customer pressure....

Bear in mind that BT's capping will not begin until next year, for now it is just a change to the T&C. Plenty of time to find a new ISP, and plenty of time for smaller ISPs to take advantage by bringing out better deals (hopefully).

And yes, upgrading to 1M does seem very tempting now...

I was on Pipex for the last nine months or so ( now painfully reduced to a miserable 150k NTL cable modem and a gig a day cap). The service and speeds were fine, but most importantly there was no cap whatsever. The only concerns were a crap newsgroup server and their DNS servers went flaky every now and then.

George Tatum
Yep thats what BT are up to , and if you work out what the 30GB 1MB D/L gives you if you have it on constantly D/L it only work out to about 13KBs

Well thx for input guys ill have 3 weeks to mull it over b4 i have to decide

I use http://www.zenadsl.co.uk/ They're pretty decent.

i remember reading and hearing a coupla weeks ago that NTL were raising the 150k service to 300k and the 600k to 900k without any price increase. Has this happened as i haven't noticed any difference yet and all the gumpf i get through the door still says 150k for ?17.99 a month.

John

NTL haven't done that yet as far as I'm aware.
The last thing I read stated it would happen in "the next few months", and I only read it recently.
There's no official notice of it on the NTL site either from what I can tell.
Still, that speed boost'll be nice when it finally arrives

here's where i saw it reported http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/26 ... broadband/ but also not seen any official announcement

Thanks for that, I've not seen the actual increases listed before.

Unfortunately it looks like I'm only gonna get a 25% upgrade ( better than nothing ), while the others get a 100% and 50%.
Might be worth switching to the 1MB service soon

Rumour has it (and it's a fairly good source) that the 1mb is dropping in price to ?29.99 soon too

i got a STB and i seem to remember reading somewhere, altho dunno where, that they limited in speed and that i would require a SACM to go higher?

AFAIK that's not neccesarily true, but NTL will give you a SACM if they have to (moan at them)

Well if the rumour about the price drop is true too, then it'll definately be worth it.

I'm curious though, what's a SACM? (I should probably know this already)

Stand Alone Cable Modem

aha, I'm using a set top box at the moment, so I'll forgive myself for not knowing that one

Thanks