Provider recommendation

Hi troops, I've been with tesco broadband for a few years now and never had any problems up until the past few months. Although my connection is decent early in the morning, it's really become impractical to use at most other times (less than 0.1mps?!). I'm in Ayrshire, in the SW of Scotland.

I've been considering changing ISP but I'm not really sure if this will make any difference. I'm currently on a £25pm package which is supposed to give me the best possible speeds (which BT reckon is around 6.5mbps). I'm sure there are bound to be better ISPs and better deals for this amount of money (or even cheaper) but this is one area in which I'm not really up to speed.

Can anyone recommend any good ISP's that may get me a better deal or better speeds? Any help would be much appreciated as it's no fun having dial-up speeds in these days of large files!!

Which exchange are you on?

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/search.php

Dalmellington exchange, east ayrshire

Unfortunate, no LLU.

Have a look at NewNet, Zen, IDNet for a quality ISP.

I'll have a nosey, thanks

Do you have any idea how much you download per month in GB? That is the most useful thing to know when targeting a non-LLU ISP.

I'm not really sure, use the laptop every night but I can't say I do much heavy downloading (probably due to the fact that it would take forever). Got a PS3 running online as well, but that's only a few hours a week max.

It might be worth downloading tbbmeter to see if you can get a handle on the amount of data you use.

See http://www.thinkbroadband.com/tbbmeter.html

People have raised privacy issues with that tool. I don't know if they have been resolved.

I think I'd go for a NewNet tariff in your situation.

just looking at the ISP's you recommended, the NewNet one was the one that appealed to me the most. Looking into it a bit further just now, thanks for your advice mate

Greetings from North Ayrshire.

For less than you are paying now, you could get PlusNet Pro which prioritises ALL of your traffic at ALL times. It also gives you unmetered service between midnight and 08:00.

Now, if all you fo is a bit of browsing and email then you could even use PlusNet Value which throttles everything other than Browsing and email but Prioritises Gaming traffic. Unfortunately, like me, you are on a Marhet 1 Exchange so will not benefit from the Market 3 discounted pricing.

I can also endorse Newnet who provide an excellent no=nonsense service at a very reasonable price.