In reply to a post by colesy10:

I went from an Entanet FTTC reseller, to AAISP FTTC and then to BT Infinty which I am currently with.

Did you have to pay the normal installation costs to the new ISP, or was it a free migration?

I'm still sitting here with a MAC burning a hole in my InBox.

Have you been with Idnet a year already? Or have you managed to negotiate your way out of contract too?

Migrated in 18 Feb. So need to decide very soon.

I paid a small contribution to end my contract with the original Entanet reseller, but then I paid a £1 admin fee to join AAISP. I didn't pay any other installion fee (which was usually around the £75 to £100 ball park figure with AAISP).
I left AAISP for free and joined BT without any installion fee, but also had £25 back I think via topcashback. I also had a discounted rate for 3 months (Infinity option 2- unlimited with 10Mb upload.)

Thanks again.

This conversation makes me realise the postcode lottery of fast the internet rollout. While some have had affordable access to superfast broadband for nearly two years, others still limp on with first gen DSL of a couple of Mb.

Appreciate it guys!

Did you have a 12 month contract with AAISP?

Still a few exchanges that dont even have ADSL some 12 years after they started

I wish i could have got near half of your current speed for 6 years, i fact 1/8 of it for 4 years, prior to that costing a fortune on dial up to 2005 as adsl wasnt available to me without a severe push to BT, think yourself lucky. Probably paying same price to, now tell me its a lottery.
Balls on the other foot now.

Which leads me on to, who should i go with next.
Phone contract ends this month and on a rolling contract should i go BT or any where else.

There's a phrase that springs to mind involving Norman Tebbitt and his bicycle, or at least a paraphrased version of it: Just move yourself to where there *is* faster broadband.

On balance, though, you can't just wait until someone gives it to you. You have to go out and make sure it comes to you: By moving, or by community involvement, or by council funding.

The rollout follows the economics: BT put it where it is of benefit to its profit margin. All you have to do is either move yourself into BT's target crosshairs, or make BT decide that your community is going to be profitable after all.

Is isn't a lottery. And there is something you can do about it.

I certainly appreciate being lucky to get ADSL in the very first trials - but I'd have moved very swiftly if I didn't. And when I did move recently, I made sure it was to a fibre area, within a good distance of the cabinet. It was the only exchange in the county at the time, which made it pretty critical.