Orange Broadband - good UK provider?

[DannyG]

one of the good things about virgin you can cancel anytime the only hold you to monthly contracts

Actually I phoned them once enquring about their service, and you can cancel at any time but they do charge you for doing it if you've been with them less then a year. Can't remember how much it is exactly...

[Kernel Sanders]

For the UK, http://www.eclipse.net.uk/ ftw!

[xpod]

Theres always NTL

I`ve been with them for my 8 months so far and twice they`ve taken double the bill out of our account and twice they`ve taken direct debits from accounts that had long since been changed....thereby costing me £35 each time until it was returned to us.

And on top of that they cut us of on 2 occaisions for not paying our bill...when it`s always paid(and sometimes twice).

I get stupid automated phone calls and if i phone them the fun & games between a Scotsman and a pakistani trying to communicate are something else.
We usually end up both pi**ing ourselves with laughter as apose to getting my money back when it`s gone missing.

The daft git`s left my old internet connection on when i upgraded though so now i got 2 for the price of one.....

Their bloody hard work though old NTL.

Good luck regardless

[ehird]

Yes, I have heard many bad things about NTL

One question about orange: when I've heard "the modem is easy to set up on linux", does this mean it's standard ethernet, plug-in-and-go? If it's anything else I'm definately not signing up...

[bigken]

take a look here this might help

[ehird]

Umm... I can set up an ethernet modem. I'm talking about Linux out-of-the-box compatibility.

[bigken]

you could phone orange or google it see what comes up or ask stuh84
he work for them

[Soarer]

I use Demon & TalkTalk (Carphone Warehouse) in the UK and both are fine. Demon tech support is good, although the admin & billing is often pretty grim. Works fine & they recently upgraded me from 1 to 3 MB download (it would be 8 MB if I was nearer the exchange). 21 GBP per month though.

TalkTalk is standard 1 MB, I pay 10 GBP per month on top of the Talk Talk call package (which is excellent value). Works fine and I've never had to call support. I believe you have to have a call package from them though. Depending where you live, you may not have to pay the 10 GBP per month.

[EDIT] BTW - both support an ethernet router, direct into Ubuntu with minimal set-up.

[.t.]

Use Zen! You can do what you want and they don't have only-capped services.

[Obor]

Don't know about orange. I use homechoice. For about £18 you get 2M broadband without limits and the eth modem they give you works out of the box with k/ubuntu. The downside is that the package is bundled with TV which you might not want.