Category: Internet

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

Join FON and get free WIFI use around the world.

How about this for an idea? You have broadband at home but travel a lot. You buy an additional router from FON and get access to every other FON user hotspot around the world – currently circa 650,000 . Your FON router splits your signal and your half is encrypted and those – other ‘Foneros’ – who use your signal as a hotspot also get their own encrypted use.

BT has just signed up all of their customers for free.
One FON user Tom Raftery writes;

I have been using a Fon router now for over a month. In case you are not aware of Fon – Fon is a company which promotes the sharing of wireless broadband. So, if you have internet access, you can buy a Fon router (for 25usd/eur) at the moment on the Fon site, when you register the router with Fon, you can use that username and password to get Internet access from any Fon router anywhere in the world (and conversely, anyone with a Fon account can get Internet access from your Fon router if they are in your area).

Tom Raftery – his site is HERE

Just bought a modem – will report again in a few weeks.

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

Summaries are HERE

Go to the FON site HERE