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 Review by Cudni 
Posted: 2.3 years ago
member for 5.9 years, 2525 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 Someshire
 $50 per month (12 month contract)
 about 10 days
 "humming along"
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as a packet and considering all that is included for free, unbeatable....so far
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Review by hell18
UPDATED: 4.7 years ago
member for 6.5 years, 10 visits, last login: 4.7 years ago
uk
$49 per month (12 month contract)
"Stable connection, very fast downloads!"
 "can be slow at times due to traffic"
 "very good ISP"
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I was first on 56K before i brought broadband. I was with the old BT anytime package, whereby you can use the internet anytime for free. that was £15.99 a month i think. I then decided to go digital, so i ordered the 512/256 connection with alactel speedtouch USB and i was activated a day before the offical date. The monthly rental is £29.99. I've recently brought a new PC and i have networked them together, so i brought a ADSL combined modem, with gateway, firewall and router. And now i have this modem, my connection is much much more stable than before. I get speeds of around 478 / 243, which is good. the slowest which it has been to is 131 / 93  that speed is crap!. That speed happens when its busy. Im on a dynamic IP, dont like static IPs. I've only phoned once to get dial up settings for the ADSL modem, due to a reformat on my other PC. Since broadband i have had not one problem, i get good download speeds mostly 59.8KB from most web sites. Downloaded the hulk demo in 52Min. which compared to a 56K modem, would take forever.
oh the modem i got is the Zoom teletronics ADSL X4 modem, gateway,firewall and router. it is £99.99 from PC World. if you got 2 computers and need a stable connection rather than using the frog, i would go for this modem.
Update,
got 1MB broadband, waiting to upgrade to 2MB, being done within this week sometime  cant wait for it to boost up in speed , 1MB has been good, but isnt enough, but what is? lol well having 3 other machines, demands alot of bandwidth, so 2MB should do the trick .
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 Review by spudgun
UPDATED: 6.1 years ago
member for 7.2 years, 1443 visits, last login: 16 days ago
New York,New York,NY
$48 per month (12 month contract)
"Reliable"
"none so far"
"Upgrade to 1Mb sometime soon"
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New ISP Zen, cheaper than BT Openworld and Monthly contracts. Still using the old Green Frog modem, so far so good.
Ian (Spudgun)
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 Review by A J 121
Posted: 6.5 years ago
member for 8.8 years, 3249 visits, last login: 3 days ago
UK
Contract price not specified. (12 month contract)
about 14 days
"They seem to have got their act together at last."
"When they rolled broadband out in the UK it was a horror story."
"Good things come to those who wait."
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I had ADSL Broadband installed in 2000 at a time when there was no self install package. I did not have to pay any installation fee (£150) because I was one of the first to apply for broadband in the UK. At the time it cost £39.99 a month (later reduced to £29.99) The engineer showed up on time and had the connection up and running in less than half an hour by means of the Alcatel USB modem (Frog) and a splitter box (so no filters for me).
During the first few months of 2001 the connection was pretty bad. The whole broadband network in the UK would fail but by mid 2001 these failures thankfully stopped. This left quite a few other problems though. Ranging from a bad transparent proxy, packet loss, high latency, missing emails and poor newsgroup servers.
First off, we managed to get BTO to ditch the transparent proxy.
The bad packet loss and latency were mainly (but not only) due to the way BT had set the network up. This issue was sometimes improved by changing your MTU setting within you OS.
The missing email problem has not totally gone away, as some people still say that it happens. But for me this is no more a problem.
BTO did upgrade their news servers but they are still poor.
At the moment BT are upgrading the Home Gateways to improve widely reported problems concerning slow web browsing. So fingers crossed.
To sum up. BTO are far from the best broadband ISP in the UK but on the flip side, they are far from the worst. There network (for me) runs at acceptable speeds as does their mail. Their news servers are very bad as is their support department.
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