ADSL ISP Sticky
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I use A&A. Almost never breaks. No closed or proxied ports, can run servers on any port, I have my own subnet of static IPs (a /28 but they will give you whatever you say that you need), full control of DNS and reverse, they really know their stuff and there is a reasonable chance if you ring them for technical help you will end up talking to one of the company directors (unless they have two people called Adrian, but I don't think they do). They also do IPv6 if that's your thing.
Basically everything an internet connection should be. Expensive though and no good for people who want to do lots of big downloads during office hours as they useage based charge at those times. I'm on an 8GB/month tariff which is plenty for me.
Basically everything an internet connection should be. Expensive though and no good for people who want to do lots of big downloads during office hours as they useage based charge at those times. I'm on an 8GB/month tariff which is plenty for me.
beanbag said:
Plus.net is the one to go for I think.
- Slow. 1Mb when I pay for a 4Mb and my neighbour gets that!?!?!?
- Unreliable - Never used to go down but lately the service is appalling.
- Rubbish customer support. Refuses refunds for genuine cases and never follows up.
- Static IP - probably the only good thing.
- 250MB of proper web space and parking for up to 2 domains, however the bandwidth of this space is included with your day to day browsing bandwidth so i discovered. So you can't really use it.
edited now to reflect my new experiences with the ISP.
Plus.net are rubbish. Try again.
>> Edited by beanbag on Thursday 17th November 09:05
Interesting. I use Metronet, who were brilliant until a few weeks ago - the time they were bought by PlusNet. In the last three days my e-mail has been down four times. I can contact them and an hour or so later they fix it, explain why, and say it shouldn't happen again. Now I can't even get to their site to lodge a wotsit.
So - I may be looking for a new ISP - I'd like a 1Mbit reliable service, I don't do a great deal of downloading, and a phone package would be handy as well. I have ADSL, not cable.
Ideas anyone?
2001 uni T3 - kept going down because people were abusing the 1.5MBps transfer speeds 
2002 NTL 1mb cable - was always going down and NTL then was supposed to introduce their capping
2003 fast24 2mb adsl - was seriously abused i.e 500gb a month and not one complaint
2004 fast24 512kb adsl - again up time was good and regular speeds
2005 fast24 1mb adsl - been down once since last june
each connection was at a different address and fast24 have been awesome. they do charge a fair bit but when i first found them they were the cheapest 2mb, it just doesnt seem like they've changed their prices in 3 years. contract has 50mb webspace and comes wires only.
MW
2002 NTL 1mb cable - was always going down and NTL then was supposed to introduce their capping
2003 fast24 2mb adsl - was seriously abused i.e 500gb a month and not one complaint
2004 fast24 512kb adsl - again up time was good and regular speeds
2005 fast24 1mb adsl - been down once since last june
each connection was at a different address and fast24 have been awesome. they do charge a fair bit but when i first found them they were the cheapest 2mb, it just doesnt seem like they've changed their prices in 3 years. contract has 50mb webspace and comes wires only.
MW
Zen are the bollox as far as I'm concerned. Bit more expensive than others, but the tech support guys really know their stuff (when you need them, I think I've only needed to phone them about 3 times in the last 4 years because of problems).
I'm moving to an 8mb line with a 20gb bandwidth cap for 25/month. 20gb is not enough if you download lots of films and/or music, but plenty for normal FTP work, internet browsing and online games.
>> Edited by Tonsko on Wednesday 10th May 17:36
I'm moving to an 8mb line with a 20gb bandwidth cap for 25/month. 20gb is not enough if you download lots of films and/or music, but plenty for normal FTP work, internet browsing and online games.
>> Edited by Tonsko on Wednesday 10th May 17:36
zen are pretty good, aquiss were one choice until i went with current company - used to be with eclipse until last year, ie about the time they got bought out and service died...
www.merula.net/residential/res_broadband.php
so far this year downloads have all been under 50 GB which is quite surprising, but i do have the option to go above this and not have to worry if too much
www.merula.net/residential/res_broadband.php
so far this year downloads have all been under 50 GB which is quite surprising, but i do have the option to go above this and not have to worry if too much
Just switched to Sky Broadband 16mb. Utter utter rubbish, spends most of the day in a zombied state were nothing is contactable (although the modem says im connected). It is very fast however for the 30 minutes a day it decides its going to work.
Also their staff are too incompetent to configure a 3rd party router, forcing you to accept their preconfigured netgear router (which is abysmal compared to my older, more reliable us-robotics one; wifi is half the strength, constantly losing connection and reconnecting [an absolute bugger when streaming movies], oh and it crashes every few days).
Also their staff are too incompetent to configure a 3rd party router, forcing you to accept their preconfigured netgear router (which is abysmal compared to my older, more reliable us-robotics one; wifi is half the strength, constantly losing connection and reconnecting [an absolute bugger when streaming movies], oh and it crashes every few days).
Edited by scorp on Monday 1st October 10:27
philthy said:
Made the jump to Zens 30gig package.
So far, absolutely excellent !
The BT line into my place is crap, but I'm getting over 2 meg down it consistantly.
Nice. Re: your line, I had my internal junction boxes removed/upgraded with proper wire. It's made the average line speed jump from around 3.5-4 ->6.5 6.8.So far, absolutely excellent !
The BT line into my place is crap, but I'm getting over 2 meg down it consistantly.
Tonsko said:
philthy said:
Made the jump to Zens 30gig package.
So far, absolutely excellent !
The BT line into my place is crap, but I'm getting over 2 meg down it consistantly.
Nice. Re: your line, I had my internal junction boxes removed/upgraded with proper wire. It's made the average line speed jump from around 3.5-4 ->6.5 6.8.So far, absolutely excellent !
The BT line into my place is crap, but I'm getting over 2 meg down it consistantly.
I'm not going to hold my breath for BT to fix it, I'd die !
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