Ann wrote: > We have been with BT since Adam was a boy and while they seem to keep > getting more expensive, we get a VERY slow speed - we are apparently > too far from the exchange. I appreciate that moving to another > provider will not speed up the line at all, but if it is cheaper than > BT we won't feel we are paying for an 8mb service and getting half a > meg - on a good day. > > My mobile is with Orange and I must admit that I am very pleased with > them. On the occasions when I have had to phone them, I always got a > helpful response. I have received a flier offering me free home > broadband which will include enough web space for all my web sites > and as many email addresses as we want. > It all sounds good but before we make the leap, is anyone out there > with Orange broadband at home? If so, what do you think about it? > > Thanks, Ann (who might have to get used to rattling off a different > email address )
No I'm not with Orange at home - if you are interested in a good home connection then do browse http://www.dslzoneuk.net/isp_ratings.php Only BT + Virgin + Karoo are worse than Orange. No.1 - Fast is (IIRC) a bit pricy. Out of the next nine (all fairly close ratings), five are all EntaNet resellers (EntaNet do not sell direct) - and will be same price, I'm with one of those (ADSL24), and very happy at present. If you have a modem/router that can be interrogated to find out the attenuation - then you can estimate your max speed. This graph works well http://www.beforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6490 Note - Where they say ADSL1 - it's really ADSL2, the graph just compares 2 and 2+ FWIW I'm now on 48db and 6464 kbps and ADSL2 - so a bit better than normal, but I force my connection to be better than BT standard :-)) Ron Jones Process Safety & Development Specialist Don't repeat history, unreported chemical lab/plant near misses at http://www.crhf.org.uk Only two things are certain: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not certain about the universe. ~ Albert Einstein
