You mean http://www.thinkbroadband.com/isp/plusnet/package/12...

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Do any UK ISPs offer contract lengths under 18 months?

Using this page to search for contract lengths under 6 months gives over 30 hits... some may be inaccurate (tbb rely on the ISP to inform them of changes) but the basic answer to your question is yes- loads of 'em.

Excellent link, thank you 12 months is fine, but 18 months is not.

Now to discover which ISPs don't throttle speeds at any time!

BT satisfy both of those requirements - 9 month unlimited unthrottled ADSL or fibre service if you're a student. Although how they actually check that is limited to a "I confirm I am a student" checkbox at the beginning of the order process...

I should point out that unlike the other deals mentioned which just offer broadband on a short/reduced contract, this is the only one I know of that also gives you a short contract on the phone line as well, no point having a 1-month broadband if you're still committed to the phone line for 12 months...

several ISPs offer monthly phone line rental - IDnet, Zen, Plusnet (LOL) "Plusnet Broadband Phone has a minimum period of 1 month"

The majority of ISPs have always been monthly for many things, it's the mass market ones that love their long minimum contract terms.

BT if student 9 months.

AAISP 6 months.

Both on FTTC as well, where as usually shorter term is limited to ADSL.

Edited by Chrysalis (Fri 09-Aug-13 14:05:12)

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Using this page

Aren't the Ratings in that page misleading? Since Flash tester we've been unable to rate easily. EE's [no data] about corresponds with Flash testing.

Numbers of ratings are up since the flash tester changed.

Registered users can rate their connections via http://www.thinkbroadband.com/rate.html and if memory is working right, we send out a monthly reminder.

Can see no Entanet resellers mentioned. From what I understand they have reasonable migration costs, no throttling and good non peak Unlimited periods.
8pm - 8am weekdays and all weekend.
I do not enter over 1 month contracts as, problems can occur if service poor.

Look at Xilo, Freeola,
Maybe not cheapest but worth a look.

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Can see no Entanet resellers mentioned. From what I understand they have reasonable migration costs, no throttling and good non peak Unlimited periods.
8pm - 8am weekdays and all weekend.
I do not enter over 1 month contracts as, problems can occur if service poor.

Look at Xilo, Freeola,
Maybe not cheapest but worth a look.

Freeola actually 7pm - 7am and all weekends unlimited, plus free hosting and migration etc. With so much free time I find the 40Gb package more than enough, even when streaming cricket on two PCs throughout the house all day.
Also real good latency and no contract tie-in. http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share/46d5c64a7a8...

Edited by professor973 (Fri 09-Aug-13 16:51:20)

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Do any UK ISPs offer contract lengths under 18 months?

My parents signed up to Plusnet a year ago and they only offered 18-month contracts. That's too long for me.

Something nobody has mentioned yet is Sky. No throttling or slowdowns at peak times. It works the same at 3am as it does at 8pm. I am on fibre and I get 9Mb/s on torrents. Their ADSL packages are priced extremely competitively. Youtube never buffers & there's no delay scrolling through Youtube videos. iPlayer, ITV player etc all good too. On some other ISPs even with high speeds, due to bad peering streaming can struggle. I am seeing this with BT currently.

I use the Sky router (I also have just added some of my own 5ghz routers but that's a different subject). With the Sky router I can plug it in and it doesn't go wrong. Currently I am sitting on 3 months of the Sky router being plugged in, without a reboot and my internet connection hasn't dropped once during that time. I have 6 laptops, 1 desktop, a smart tv, 2 wireless printers, 5 smartphones, a sky wireless on demand receiver, until a week ago all of this was connecting to my sky router without an issue. I have since added some 5Ghz access points (just to be a bit fancy) but didn't unplug the sky router during this!

Sky have a commitment to not slow your speeds down on all LLU packages. This includes evenings.
It's half price for a year currently on ADSL.

http://www.sky.com/shop/broadband-talk/
As an alternative Plusnet do 1 month contracts if you are in a market 3 exchange.

Edited by ukhardy07 (Fri 09-Aug-13 16:38:56)

Ah, OK! For some reason I had my Ratings Reminder OFF. I don't remember doing it and had no reason to do so. It's now ON. EDIT: Hence EE are missing some important data .

Last requested rating seems to be Dec. 2012, just a month before I started using Flash tester.

Edited by XRaySpeX (Fri 09-Aug-13 16:45:17)