Trouble with your broadband – take a look at those reviewed by ISPreview

If like me you are bamboozled in trying to weigh up the pros and cons of ISPs you might be grateful for a great site that provides a wealth of information about the ISP’s you’ve heard of  – and lots of good ones that you haven’t;

 

Top 10 ISPs By Subscriber Size

BT Retail (PlusNet, Brightview) 4,700,000

Virgin Media 3,885,800

Carphone Warehouse (TalkTalk, AOL) 2,700,000

Sky Broadband (BSkyB) 1,955,000

Tiscali (Pipex) 1,774,000

Orange (France Telecom) 1,023,000

O2 (Be Unlimited) 267,090

Kingston Comms (KCOM) 195,255

THUS Group (Demon) 126,000

Entanet 

 

The top 10 you might not have heard of;

 

Top 10 Land-Line Broadband ISPs

TitanADSL 

Fast.co.uk 

Naims 

Vispa 

SurfAnyTime 

ICUK 

Aquiss 

IDNet 

UKFSN 

ADSL24

 

To see their Top 50 ISPs HERE

The SkyUser website will provide you with a test of your broadband speed plus a list of alternatives

UPDATE – this CNET tester might be better than the Sky one HERE

The SkyUser website will provide you with a test of your broadband speed plus a list of alternatives.

The site is HERE

Broadband – how much do you use?

Broadband on the new WiFi hotspot systems are attractive but beware if you are a heavy user because their allowances are small, after which you start paying extra. On conventional broadband it looks sensible to have ‘unlimited’ – see article below – or at least a 10gb allowance.

The average customer used 6.19GB, although removing the heaviest 10% of users cuts that to 2.35GB.

Source: Guardian Unlimited

SEE also my article re the FON hotspot system

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All postings to this site relate to the central SunWALK model in the PhD.

Summaries are HERE