they do but if you leave within 12months you have to pay the activation fee (approx £60)

with the exception of virgin.net, you'll either have to pay the activation at the start of the contract, or it will be waived unless you leave within 12months.

personally I would go for eclipse, or metronet (because its cheaper if you have a light use month but has a max cost per month so its still ok to rape the bandwidth).

basically, I would check the following out, work out which is cheapest, and go for it, I dont think you'll have problems with any of them:

nildram, pipex, freedom2surf, eclipse, metronet, high velocity.

I say go for Pipex, have been using em for about 3 years now, had a contract with them when i moved to Glasgow that I cancled within the 12 months and they never said anything about a termination fee or anything (I said that I was moving house/flat, I think thats cool, they might get pissed if you just want to leave for someone else).

Pipex are the longest running ISP apparently, and are usually in the top 5 ISP's in the UK. I have never had a problem with them saying I use the connection too much. I can count on one hand the number of times it has gone down in those 3 years so thats gotta be good. Plus they are cheap.

Ive got an old BT original unlimited download package ive have for the past 4 years, it never goes down it's not to expensive and u get a cool green frog shaped usb modem.

Screw you im going home.

adsl speedtouch modem that would be junkie - but its usb only which is poo.

anyhoo, avoid bulldog, theyre cheap and quite good connections etc but their customer services are sh*tE!

mac code?

you mean mac address? like the mac on your router?...

yep its generated when you request it and valid for 30 days iirc.

it replaced CBUK numbers last year which were permanently allocated to an adsl account i think.