Bulldog Dsl

excalabyte · 18th June 2005

Hi , Im looking for an internet connection between 5 people in a house , i would like to get as fast as possible 8mb

Now the choices i've seen so far are UK Online and Bulldog

Im 80% sure i want bulldog but has anyone had any experience with them , i saw on another forum they had a bad patch of high pings but all seems to be alright

Also UK online have 500 gig limit

neilrbowen · 18th June 2005

do you really expect to use 500 gb in a month

thats a LOT

excalabyte · 18th June 2005

Maxing out a 512k Line ive found you can get 5 gig a day , so if we did max out the 8mb line

16 x 5 = 80 gigs a day

Thats like 7 days

Or between 5 of us 3.3 gig a day

Id rather not have the limits

stelios · 5th July 2005

bulldog has the worst support I've ever seen. It is almost impossible to catch them on the phone. I was asking a username and password for 2 months in order to upgrade my line.

Dexxa · 5th July 2005

Look at it this way at least bulldog is better then btyahoo

gservs_karl · 5th July 2005

A friend of mine has bulldog broadband and ive heard nothing but praise, he seems to be upgraded for free all the time.

excalabyte · 5th July 2005

Ok Cool , well now f2s haved 8mb Broadband At a cheaper price using bt line

Cranky · 5th July 2005

I moved ISP yesterday and have to admit I considered f2s, but in the end Zen won as I value reliability and responsive support (and Zen seem to offer both) more than saving £10/mo for an ADSL connection. F2s seem to have a good reputation, but Zen's seems much better and pre-sales was much more professional and quick.

Arkaos · 8th July 2005

I went with Bulldog and apart from trying to get them on the phone (either support or Cust services) everything has been brilliant

stelios · 8th July 2005

They just upgrade my line with no extra cost at 8MBit

At least they give you speed!

danfoster · 9th July 2005

I used bulldog for our office dsl connection a while ago, and they were about the worst company i've ever had to deal with. perhaps their support is better than it once was, and perhaps their service isn't down nearly every week any more now, but i'd never trust them again after the way they conducted business.

Perhaps since they got bought out they've been brought up to scratch?

othellotech · 9th July 2005

no, since clueless & witless took over customer service is practically non-existant, support have been unable to fix a recurring "you stopped routing this ip block" issue, and they shat on their resellers from a great height

aXeR · 11th July 2005

I have a friend who recently joined UKonline for their 8Mb service.

From what I recall, the staff made several **** ups at first (didn't send the hardware out on tim, then when he pursued the problem, they gave him BS over the phone etc) however, when the equipment arrived all seemed fine.

To begin with he was getting speed of 400KB/s but after some routine changes in their network he was consistently getting 700+

also, he pins to my network at a nice 7-8ms

nitrohosting · 11th July 2005

Whereabouts is your friend located?

Is the 7-8ms to TSN's network or do you have your own too?

Cheers,
Kris

aXeR · 11th July 2005

Apologies I was referring to my rack in the TSN network (I was tired, forgive me

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My friend is somewhere in London but surprisingly is around 14 hops (seems to go through most of the level3 metro hops :P)