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Re: [Sheflug] Decent ISP, anyone?

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Richard Ibbotson 
  To: sheflug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 11:16 PM
  Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Decent ISP, anyone?


  Peter

  > It's that tired old question once again: can anyone recommend an
  > ISP? I want a wires-only 2Mbps service, one or two e-mail
  > addresses, one static IP address, about 5GB per month download, at
  > least one phone in the company whose number starts with 01 or 02,
  > and an e-mail blacklist. No virus filtering, mail interception or
  > "content" (AOL need not apply). It would also help if mention of
  > Linux didn't send their tech support people into paroxysms.
  >
  > I've looked at uklinuxadsl.net, but they want £33 per month, which
  > I think is a bit steep. I wondered about BT, but their pages are so
  > full of fluff it's hard to find the useful bits.

  Don't do BT. It's really bad. There is universal agreement about 
  this. I was using www.zen.co.uk until recently. Couldn't find 
  anything wrong with them. £25 a month. I've switched over to 
  www.ukfsn.org to save a bit of money at £16.50 a month. Same quality 
  of service as Zen Internet. Jan was saying something about 
  http://www.talktalk.co.uk today. About £16 a month. She said it 
  wasn't too bad.

  Regards

  -- 
  Richard
Well, everyone's individual mileage will vary (of course) but I have to say that I've been really happy with BT since I switched to them about two years ago. I simply haven't had any problems worth mentioning. I'm out in Totley, and I'm getting a steady 5 mb per second download.

I was with Avensys / Gemsoft for a number of years, and on many levels they were excellent - it's great when you can speak to one of the owners when a problem comes up! But (two years ago, certainly) they weren't able to increase my connection speed from 2 mb per second to 8 mb, so I switched. I believe their problem wasn't technical but business-related - I think I remember them saying that they had to take a (large) minimum amount of capacity from BT (the ultimate bandwidth provider) to offer 8 mb ADSL, and at that time at least they couldn't see their way to doing so.

Tom Burke
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