UK Broadband Price Comparisons

Long time ago approx four and half years when broadband was just getting it's feet wet in the UK, I signed up with Pipex for my home account. I have been with them ever since. In that time I have also signed up with four other accounts from my office/studio address) these included Bulldog, BT, AOL and Wannadoo. Every single one of them had their own problems and IMO were bad value for money.

The only good service I have had has come from Pipex. In the years I have used it has been down on me a total number of five times twice in the daytime for about 40 or 50 minutes and the rest in the evening for about 10 - 30 minutes. It cost more to use a Pipex 2MB pipe and in todays newer speeds that isn’t much but I would rather pay for reliability.

I won't change until something better comes along which I hear very soon we are in for a 24mb pipe when a certain Swedish company gets going. That is when I would change or if something better and more reliable came along. I don't particularly like the attitude of Pipex and I have an 'axe to grind with them' over their current design and layout... that’s another story.

Problem with these cheap services(less than £20) is they might be 2mb connections, but they cap your monthly downloads to about 1-2GB . Would rather pay £25 and have unlimited downloads.

...they cap your monthly downloads to about 1-2GB . Would rather pay £25 and have unlimited downloads.

I agree, the service we use from Pipex is 2mb and uncapped. For that it's quite reliable and fast.
The Pipex service they talk about in the Times article is actually 'shite' it's their 2mb capped which runs out quite quickly.

I gladly pay more for a service (Nildram) that unlike BT (my experience) isn't fighting on price. It's classic price discrimination in part - you pay more to ride first class or drink in the saloon rather than public bar (apologies anyone under 40 here) because there is likely to be more room and better service. The thing in the Times piece about one service costing £10 in Birmingham or London but £14 in the country (rough figures) also may be slightly missing the point ... you may be paying an extra £4 a month (so what) for a lower contention ratio, so may actually be getting a faster service than the guy in town.

that's a good bit of marketing for a site that is in reality nothing more than a collection of affiliate links... you could learn a lot from watching those guys ;)

Anyone tried bethere yet.. £24 = 24mb.. ?
Up to 1.3 meg upload speed

And its unlimited.. I'm tempted ;)