British ISPs
Zen - the UK's best broadband
Sky and Virgin aren't British owned, so who is? British Telecom and:
A&A are fantastic
You really do get what you pay for. My favourite part is is the online portal, it's probably what most first line support agents can access in other companies, but accessible to the customer. I just can't quite justify the price for home yet, extra £25/m
I'm on Zen and would highly recommend. Good support, which I've only needed once in four years.
can anyone speak from experience of these providers
specifically re. web blocking, dpi protocol blocking, self hosting
Well cityfibre are the network providers and you need some one to act as an isp on the network to connect you, I went with noone internet as they provided a static ipv4 and ipv6 without cgnat, then they got bought/merged/billed not sure which by hometelecom. New customers don't get a static ipv4, existing do. I haven't noticed any type of blocking but that might just be my isp.
Most of the main providers do cgnat, mid contract price rises and generally questionable things. The one thing I was a bit concerned about was the pppoe connection rather than DHCP, but is doesn't seem to have made much difference.
I'm with Zen now and my experience has been mostly great. I haven't done any of the more technical things you've mentioned so I can't comment on that, but in general they've been consistently reliable and fast for me. The only issue I've had has been due to a fault with the router a few months ago but the customer support sorted it within a day by walking me through how to factory reset the router.
Can I add a voice for YouFibre?
Based in Tewkesbury, Glos. - well priced and generally pretty good in my experience.
Zen seems pretty pricey, 500Mbps for £42 vs the same for £26 from Gigaclear
That is an intro price for Gigaclear. I have a few friends who have had Gigaclear for over the 18 months, and they appear to stick to the "for new customers only" rule and made them pay full price, so Gigaclear will increase to ~£43 after the promo.
However is that the Zen when dealing with OpenReach? A lot of that cost are due to BT and externalised from Zen.
I would pay for Gigaclear just to avoid BT and their despicable practices.
DISCLAIMER am a very happy Gigaclear customer after years of BT (sorry "OpenReach") fucking me around