Can anyone recommend an ISP for central London

I am with Tioscali and their speeds vary a lot during the day. I get about 5MPs, but at rush hour, it can be VERY slow. Does anyone know an alternative with FAST broadband?

O2 actually owns 'be internet', so the infrastructure is the same.
We switched to O2 recently after being with Zen for 2.5 years. Zen were fine - solid as a rock - but the down speed was quite marginal. I don't think we averaged more than about 2mbps down, even though we were on the 8mbps package and paying £24.95 a month for the service.
We switched to O2's 20mbps package and actually saved £10/ month. My wife has her phone with O2 and this got us a £5 discount. We immediately noticed the difference. The average speed increased to 9mbps.
A week or so after joining, we received an e-mail from O2 stating that the monitoring they had done on our connection indicated to them that we were on the wrong package. We called them and they did some checks and found that we were never going to get anything better than 11mbps on our line (due to distance from the exchange and so on. They offered to downgrade our package to 16mbps (they would have throttled us back to 8 if we'd asked, but we knew the local exchange was being upgraded) and refund the amounts we had already paid for the faster package we didn't receive.
All in all, I would say that the connection speeds are great and the customer service terrific...and they're CHEAP!!
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