Your opinions on British ISPs

[crmpicco]

I am looking for an ISP - in Britain.

Does anyone recommend one? I need to be able to use SSH and Torrents.

Picco

[Conteo]

Virgin Media
Be Broadband as well

[Nightfire]

Been with virgin for a year or so now, can't fault them.

[JamieR]

I've been with BT since 2004. They've been fairly reliable with only one or two outages in the last three years. BT themselves are reliable, but I've got a dodgy router (need to replace it sometime) and I live *miles* away from the local exchange, so it means that my internet connection isn't that reliable at times.

I'm on a 1mb connection (1024/256) with a 40gb limit I think...for £25 a month it's not the cheapest but it works. Some ISPs in the UK just resell BT lines anyway, so I thought I might as well get the service straight from the horses mouth.

[crmpicco]

anyone on 1MBps Virgin

[NancyJ]

We were with Telewest for years until Virgin Media took over - have to say that the quality of service has dropped dramatically since then. Our 10Mbps Cable was incredibly slow a couple of months after the take over though it seems to have stabalised now, we did have an outage at the weekend for a couple of hours though.
Too much virgin money is going on young, hip, sexy marketting and not enough of quality of service - particularly with the TV. I may be young but I'm neither hip nor sexy, I want my telewest back :(

[rafiki]

believe it or not Pipex has been great for about a year, thats all i been with them with (my mum chose to go with them) no limits 1.1MBPS 3,107,257 bytes sent 34,191,330 recieved (mouse over while typing) but i guess thats what its going to average to roughly :D and 19.99/m

[mike_tw]

I can highly recommend Entanet Internet. Fantastic stuff from them.

I was with tiscali for 2 years, suffering slow speeds, high pings, blocked ports etc and I wasn't even on FUP. The final point came when they wouldnt even allow online games, MSN, email via outlook! Everything was blocked at peak times for everybody on a certain platform (IPSTREAM). I just got my MAC code and joined www.vivaciti.com and havent looked back.

Feels like moving from dial-up to broadband all over again :D