View Full Version : what was your previous isp ?
13Jackal
23/04/2007, 09:52
just out of interest and abit of boredom what was your old isp?
I was with Zen for a month, before that with Plusnet for years. Also with CIX for a few years. Also been a customer of Demon, Zetnet, AOL and Red Hot Ant (anyone remember them?) in years gone by.
13Jackal
23/04/2007, 18:06
i was with demon/red hot ant/v21 during my dialup days was with nilly when i first got adsl then moved to zen came to adsl24 acouple of months ago
2bagstew
23/04/2007, 20:01
BT for 3 years they where good untill CS went to India..
abuelito
23/04/2007, 20:57
I was with Claranet since time began. They charged a premium price and at first provided a premium service, including a goo News Server. For the last 3 years or so, they've concentrated on business customers and seemed to regard indivividual customers as a nuisance - the (expensive) support lines were pretty useless - though I only needed them each coulole of weeks to ask why the the service had cut out. The news server was so bad I paid to transfer to NewsHosting. Lately I was paying £34.99 per month for 2Gbs, though it was so slow it seemed to be going backward. The final straw when was they told me I was an excessive user (although the deal I was on was supposed to be unrestricted)and must not exceed 30Gbs per month in future.. Enough was enough - I did what I should have done a couople of years ago and transferred. ADSL24 is a real breath of freh air.
I was with the hell hole called Tiscali and before that with Telewest, hopefully now i have found my perminent home for a long while. :D
I think quite a few of us went over after the 186K takeover of EFH Broadband.
troonguy
29/04/2007, 15:20
I was with plusnet for 3 years, but there were so many problems and customer support was a nightmare
Shame because they used to be a great broadband company, but I think they grew to quickly and forgot who paid the bills lol
Looking forward to a great and long term experience here with ASL
Customer service and support is excellent, as is value and speed
Well done James
Simon:)
i was with freeserve many moons ago, from there i went with eclipse
now hopefully im now with the best
I was/am with (until tomorrow:D ) AOHELL
8 years of an OK service, but now rubbish.
Was with Plusnet for a few years, until they bought the ridiculous package changes in, then switched to Namesco. After 9 months of awful gaming pings, which they couldn't tell me for certain whether it was their network or local exchange congestion, I decided the only way to find out for sure was to switch ISP. So here I am and I've never been happier. Perfect pings and no problems whatsoever. ADSL24 rocks :)
I was with Nildram ever since my exchange got enabled in, Samknowns says 1981 but I doubt that very much :p until around 9 months ago when I joined IDNET.
My migration to ADSL24 Completes today :)
stellarbelz
31/07/2007, 10:30
at first for six years on dial up with Freeserve/wanadoo/orange/ or awwww gimme a break !
then for a year to EFH/186k/mailbox/ or awwwwwwww gimme another break !
Now with a good stable, fast, serviced provider ADSL24
f2s....
Seems the poll should be updated :)
I was with tiscali before for 6 weeks before I used their terms and conditions against them and got out early without having to pay off the balance. I note they have since changed them. It used to say words like 'If we cannot fix in 28 days your free to go without penalty' now they have changed it to 'escalating the resolution' or some such nonsense.
Freeserve before that, cable&wireless before that, Global Internet before that, oh and x-stream when they did the 0800 access for dialup.
I was with f2s before coming here.
I was with Pipex for 6 years before coming here. I think it's been a good choice.:) moving to ADSL24
TalkTalk. They started out rubbish and didn't get much better.
You need to add NTL-HELL to the list ;)
PineappleJack
01/08/2007, 14:48
I was with Pusnet. They were always taking the pus. :p
Martinp23
01/08/2007, 16:15
BT, after they started ridiculous throttling of all traffic, not just P2P (which would have been ok-ish).
blueastra
02/08/2007, 01:06
Up until 3pm yesterday Pipex for about 10 years, I've also had accounts with Claranet, AOL (very briefly) and Compuserve.
Zen. Didn't provide a big enough usage allowance :(
until last monday F2S for 4 years
Old tiplex ;)
Thank god I got out free of charge
Was zetnet for a couple of years, then switched to pipex 4 years ago to get ADSL. Their service was dearer, but no quotas and they didn't throttle. Then they started throttling P2P traffic. Then they introduced hidden caps. Then they started throttling encrypted traffic to 5kbps. It was worth the cancellation fee to escape. Now they're being bought by tiscali - looks like I got out just in time!
cootcee64
02/08/2007, 22:32
Was with t*sco.net for ages, basic 512kb package, was reliable at the time but sssslllooowww.
also customer services/technical help were both utter cr*p.
then i saw the light and joined adsl24 :) very happy
Well I have been with four different Isp's.
Edit My apologies. Think I went in to a bit to much detail lol
Summary of My ISP's
1st utility warehouse DC. Very poor service and broadband
2nd Plusnet. Poor CS, traffic shaping hell.
3rd Eclipse. OK to start. Traffic shaping, Poor CS
4th ITSOS. Best of the above. Changed to Business only and other reasons.
5th ADSL24 So far so good. ???
Freeserve - Wannadoo - Tiscali - Adsl 24. There the story ends I hope. ;)
I escaped Wanadoo before they went all Orange on me... but moved to another hell called Tiscali. Although, being fair, I do think Orange are worse than Tiscali, from what I've heard... which is some feat!
Don't regret migrating to here from Virgin. I'm a heavy gamer and pings of 250 the servers in the uk are pretty rubbish. Getting pings of 17-30 now :D and i can host a server without my fellow team mates complaining. And of course dowload speeds are alot faster!
matt.thepie
10/09/2007, 13:33
2004 - AOL at my parents, exchange is about 3 miles from the house so can only get 512 there, its fine for them.
2005 - moved to student halls so used their wireless service (which didn't allow access to pop3 or imap servers!)
2006 - moved to my current flat, joined tiscali in september. Very fast during cooling off period, then suddenly died to around 30kbps all the time. couldn't download anything over 100 kilobytes without it timing out. Absolute hell. Called India 1000 times, every time it was "escalated to an engineer" and I would be "called back within 48 hours". Didn't ever get a callback. Went on for 12 weeks until they finally let me out of the contract.
Dec 2006 - migrated to AOL as they'd always been fine at home. 2megabit service with no contract, as I had my own equipment. Was pretty good, sometimes used to drop to 1 megabit at peak times. Tiscali were still billing me, and were sending threatening letters for payment. Rung them up and said if they didn't leave me alone I'd take out legal advice. They have been silent ever since.
August 2007 - moved to ADSL24 after AOL lied to me by saying my line would support only 2 megabits. Am sick of moving. Hopefully I will be ok with ADSL24!
Was with Pipex for about 8yrs before switching to adsl24
Gargoyle
10/09/2007, 14:33
Dilaup
1997 Demon, in the days before Freeserve and the 'free' ISP's. In later years in tandem with AOL/a variety of fly-by-nighters fighting it out on ever more stupid 'free' deals/ending up probably with freeserve.
Move to Broadband with once we had it in Leeds as it was then For BB I actually found them pretty good.
House move 2005:
Metronet, good until they got taken over by Plus, and my useage changed.
Eclipse
A&A (Andrews and Arnold) - Great ISP, but being at home all day not so compatible with their pricing structure.
ADSL24
cloudy73
10/09/2007, 15:20
Aol - 'unlimted' meant 60GB = excessive :confused:
Twat's... but at least i then discovered ADSL24 - THANK GOD!!!!!
:D:D:D:D
During my broadband years:
2002 - BT Broadband
2005 - Nildram
2006 - TalkTalk (aghhh)
2007 - ADSL24
smartybones
10/09/2007, 15:46
first broadband was cable and wireless, i got really upsent when i moved, and cable was not in my area, and bt had not enabled ADSL on the exchange.... and no date had been set.... so went onto bt home highway....3 months later exchange was enabled.... bt let me out of the contract for home highway, so long as i went with bt internet...
after BT came freeserve, then AOL, then pipex and onto adsl24.
BT...Redhot ant...freeserve....clara....plusnet.....IDnet and now Adsl24.
Had cable in the States for years before I moved over here. It 'just worked', which I rather miss with DSL.
Had Zen first in the UK, switched to ADSL24 after a move since I had poor latency and no support with Zen. Hope I stay with ADSL24. Not many other options left since I can't get any other LLU in my exchange.
AOL
TalkTalk
Pipex
ADSL24
IDnet - Come Oct
Soulja85
10/09/2007, 18:53
AOHell
AOL
TalkTalk
Pipex
ADSL24
IDnet - Come Oct
How come your leaving us :eek:
judderman62
10/09/2007, 22:30
Freeserve - dial up
Plusnet - started as an excellent co - really top customer support, then proceeded to morph into (as Paul Calf might put it) the biggest bag of sh*te on the planet
Aceinternet - started much like here - small company , local to me, all members praised them to high heaven - best ever yada yada...sadly they then did a plusnet and out plusneted plusnet to become the worst organisation of any sort in the galaxy and a bunch of out and out crooks/cowboys ..total b******s
ADSL24 - please don't do an Ace (bearing in mind how well they were in the start)
I was with NewNet. Great company, good support, nice billing department people, good quality stable connection. I wouldnt have left apart from now I have a need for more bandwidth. The off peak use here is a massive plus to me and something NewNet couldnt match.
1st : Bt dial-up
2nd : Aol . { as soon as Broadband was available}
3rd : Pipex { until the billing went all t*t`s up }
4th : Newnet { not one single problem with them,}
And now with adsl24. Not a bad word to say about james and the gang, Very helpful and friendly, .. . How long i stay depends on how Enta resolve an issue i have with them atm :( .. { and it`s only enta i have the query with }
AOL, good service in the 3 years I was with them, even though everyone put them down. Only left when they introduced the 60GB cap at the end of May :(
I was with NewNet. Great company, good support, nice billing department people, good quality stable connection. I wouldnt have left apart from now I have a need for more bandwidth. The off peak use here is a massive plus to me and something NewNet couldnt match.
Thats the only reason i left IDnet.
colonelk
11/09/2007, 14:58
Hi-Velocity
Compuserve was my first Dial-up ISP, then Demon, then Freeserve, then AOL (Dial-up). In 2001 came NTL Broadband - still have a connection with them as I had to buy my modem and get the £5 discount.
ADSL wise, I've had PlusNet, Hi-Velocity and now ADSL24.
I also have a trial connection of advanced broadband - a 5Ghz wireless service giving a 2Mbit symmetrical connection.
colonelk
12/09/2007, 07:26
I also have a trial connection of advanced broadband - a 5Ghz wireless service giving a 2Mbit symmetrical connection.
OOoooo. Whats latency like?
Gazanimal
12/09/2007, 18:28
AOL - 56k
Pipex - 512k
Pipex - 1mb
UKOnline - 2mb
Bulldog - 2mb
ADSL24 - Upto 8mb (hovering around 5mb)
OOoooo. Whats latency like?
Seems about the same as ADSL - but it's very expensive if I decide to keep it, £50+VAT subsidised or £250+VAT unsubsidised.
Don't think I'll be keeping it after the trial :)
How come your leaving us :eek:
Going to give another isp a go at getting bt to fix my line as this one hasn't managed too. They seem to think I should live with it and I strongly disagree.
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