Orange broadband

[robof9]

There broadband is fine. The only snag i have with them is you have to use there routers, which outputs a very weak signal. Ive asked them to give me the info to input and use my own wireless router, but under there policy, its a no no...


Oh ****.....!!!
I do hope not, ive just signed up with them for 18 months for land line and broadband as a package for only £18 a month.
Get connected next week, will see how it goes.

been on orange for 2 yrs, 1st thing i did is bin the livebox, use a belkin router and it is great.

thing is, package i am on is quite expensive, due to terms of condition change where my package was no longer available.

i was on plus, and i often lost my connection, orange to date i have never lost the connection. just beware 6pm - 11pm can be slow

 

[John C]

I thought the fibre deals were only optics back to the local exchange at which point you're back on copper?
I may well be wrong!

Im sure your right.
Its copper from your house to the box at the end of the road I know that.



My point was more that there are only two alternative systems.
Virgins being much newer than BTs.

Changing from 1 BT reseller to another, isnt going to change much.

 

[NitroBall]

Im sure your right.
Changing from 1 BT reseller to another, isnt going to change much.

That was my thinking.
I wish i could get optic-fibre (cable), unfortunately they only offer the service upto house No.41 on my road, and im No.45, because some lazy git didnt run the cable down far enough when they building the site 15 years ago

 

[k4p84]

Hey

Do a search and see how far you are from the exchange as that will tell you a possible max speed you could achieve.
There is no point in signing up for up to 20 meg if you could never achieve more than 6 ! Though remember your sync speed will always be greater than the actual speed you can achieve.

I can not recommend my current provider enough [url =https://www.idnet.net]IdNet[/url] .
They are a small company and offer by far the best customer support out there.
To quantify that you call them you will get a reply asap! Also if it is out of hours you leave a voice mail and they will get back to you. I have never had to wait more than half an hour for my call back and that has been as late as like 11pm before.

They also give you a good amount of tech support if you have messed up your router for example.

They have also done line tests as you wait and have been able to tell me then and there that the issue is not from the exchange but the following link. Turned out the landlord had crushed the cables.

Need I say more

Ed

 

[stongle]

I think John C has it right. Although a high speed / upload / download rate mya be the initial temptation to go with a provider, I think it should be cutomer service (cos who really needs 10meg???).

And if you take customer service into account, do not go with BT. They will rape you on a monthly basis on cost, and the the customer service leaves you feelling like a Vietmanese butt ho whoose just been rogered with a very large phallis (repeatedly). Nothing but aggro with the cnuts. And that really is the most positive thing I can say about them. I live about a mile from the exchange and they were knobbing me for a 8 meg connection, but I was getting less than dial up. I spent longer on the phone to India than I did completeing all the Spec Ops missions on MW2 to no avail. W*nkers lot of em.

Ideally now, if I could, I'd have some form of dedicated line put in via satellite / space station or something. All these companies are nothing but grief!

 

[piranha 1]

i went with orange years ago and there email system is spam city nothing but spam every day 30 emails of rubbish .Had good speed was on 8meg then more people on exchange in area speed dropped down to 2 meg so dumped them as were already on talk talk for phone did'nt load aol as thats a major pain and just use them to log on no probs for years

 

[RichardMacdonald]

been with orange 4 years, well the household, when ever we get an update our box can never reconnect itselve as it should automatically, nor can we do it manually, it has to be done over the phone. anybody else had this issue?

another point ive had an issue with is our connection key numbers on the box are actually different from the ones on the sticker we were given nonetheless we did call up and they apologised and provided the correct numbers.

all in all ive played live etc on it and it runs great bar the couple of times we've required to call up and get it sorted out to reconnect.

 

[zendeejay]

seriously if you going to go for internet go and try BT, they have announce that they will be upgrading the system to recieve 40Mb connection speeds, which means anyone with bt at the moment and has had so for 1yr will get a free upgrade in speed like what ntl and cable telewest do. Bt are really trying to compete now with the speeds the fibre optic guys are offering.

 

[PortoX]

Orange - are a mess.

BT - are good but can be pricey.

Virgin - Good, plus the support is top notch.

 

[Cook$]

seriously if you going to go for internet go and try BT, they have announce that they will be upgrading the system to recieve 40Mb connection speeds, which means anyone with bt at the moment and has had so for 1yr will get a free upgrade in speed like what ntl and cable telewest do. Bt are really trying to compete now with the speeds the fibre optic guys are offering.

Only over fibre. You can provide up to 622meg over fibre. And as we don't have fibre....