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Virgin cable here too .A OK
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> 1. Re: Best ISP? (STONE COLD)
> 2. Re: Best ISP? (Martin Peeks)
> 3. Re: Best ISP? (Dave Walker)
> 4. Re: Best ISP? (Matthew Daubney)
> 5. Re: Best ISP? (Adam Bagnall)
> 6. Re: Best ISP? (John Levin)
> 7. Idea: UbuCon UK (John Levin)
> 8. Re: Ubuntu Open Week (Andrew Barber)
> 9. Re: Best ISP? (Andrew Barber)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:54:25 +0000
> From: STONE COLD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?
> To: British Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com>
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> im with virgin! a few months ago my pc broke down so didnt use any BB. In the
> meantime i heard some scare stories from virgin customers...
>
> when i got a new pc i was expecting the worse..but contrary to that they have
> still been good...
>
> best of all no limits on DLing!
>
> ?20 for line and phone! unlimited calls to landlines 24/7!
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> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
> > Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:45:38 +0100
> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?
> >
> > Virgin is definitely the one for cable and ive never had any trouble with
> > pipex for adsl. Is anyone using sky as i will be moving to sky in my new
> > house apparently between 8 and 16mb.
> >
> > Rhys
> >
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> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:57:37 +0100
> From: Martin Peeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?
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> Hi,
>
> Jai Harrison wrote:
> > Hey Guys,
> >
> > I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss.
> > We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best
> > Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state
> > whether it is ADSL or cable.
> >
> > Jai
> >
>
> ADSL24 has been excellent for me - but I think nearly anyone would find
> themselves happy with any Entanet reseller.
>
> Martin
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> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:05:49 +0100
> From: Dave Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?
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> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 21:55 +0100, Jai Harrison wrote:
> > Hey Guys,
> >
> > I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss.
> > We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best
> > Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state
> > whether it is ADSL or cable.
> >
> > Jai
> >
>
> For my use, cable - Virgin Media is the best solution. This is because
> I can get a "XL-20Mb" connection for <?20 p/m and I am not tied to also
> requiring a phone line. However, on the odd occasion I have required
> support, the telephone assistance stinks - but they are more willing to
> send out an engineer than many ADSL suppliers.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Dave Walker
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> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:14:07 +0100
> From: Matthew Daubney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?
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> Alan Pope wrote:
> > Hi Jai.
> >
> > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 21:55 +0100, Jai Harrison wrote:
> >
> >> I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss.
> >> We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best
> >> Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state
> >> whether it is ADSL or cable.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > For ADSL I'd use UKFSN.
> >
> > For Cable, Virgin Media.
> >
> > I have used both, and they're both great in my opinion.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Al.
> >
> Bah, I'm stuck with Virgin media and desperately want to get rid of it.
> Stupid protected trees. Mind you, apparently there is a chance I might
> get billed correctly this month.
>
> -Matt Daubney
>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:39:39 +0100
> From: Adam Bagnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?
> To: British Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Alan Pope wrote:
> > Hi Jai.
> >
> > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 21:55 +0100, Jai Harrison wrote:
> >
> >> I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss.
> >> We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best
> >> Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state
> >> whether it is ADSL or cable.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > For ADSL I'd use UKFSN.
> >
> > For Cable, Virgin Media.
> >
> > I have used both, and they're both great in my opinion.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Al.
> >
> I had cable last year with Virgin and it was great. I've now moved and
> no longer have cable. I stuck with Virgin but they now suck. My download
> speeds are terrible, especially in the evenings and weekends. Even in
> the mornings when the speed isnt too bad it's still far from what I
> should be getting.
>
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:55:54 +0100
> From: John Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?
> To: British Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Martin Peeks wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Jai Harrison wrote:
> >> Hey Guys,
> >>
> >> I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss.
> >> We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best
> >> Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state
> >> whether it is ADSL or cable.
> >>
> >> Jai
> >>
> >
> > ADSL24 has been excellent for me - but I think nearly anyone would find
> > themselves happy with any Entanet reseller.
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
>
> I use UKFSN (www.ukfsn.org) who are an entanet reseller. All that free
> software goodness (they're currently sponsoring an Ubuntu student
> coder), great support upstream from Entanet, and no complaints. The only
> problem I've had was due to BT, who made a bloody mess of things, but
> eventually (because every time they fixed one problem, made a mess of
> someone elses phone line)n got things working.
>
> HTH
>
> John
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:09:47 +0100
> From: John Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Idea: UbuCon UK
> To: British Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com>
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> As I'm envious of things like the Ontario Linux Fest
> http://onlinux.ca/
> the UbuCon in Germany
> http://the-space-station.com/blog/?p=14
> and the Ohio Linux fest
> http://blue-gnu.biz/content/2007_ohio_linuxfest_penguin_colony_gathers_again
> I'd like to suggest that the Ubntu-UK Loco Team organise an Ubucon here
> in the UK.
>
> Just imagine, loads of free software, creative commons,
> alpha/beta/gamma-level geeks, showing off their wares, whether it's an
> operating system, hardware, a website, some-neat-app, a driver for those
> USB missiles, or even a human fruit machine. Live bug reporting!
> Sessions on hacking beer! BOFs on running BOFs about BOFs! The sky's the
> limit (unless we get Mark Shutleworth coming along, in which case we can
> even go *into space!!!*)
>
> Wouldn't you give up a weekend for such madness?
>
> John
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:45:29 +0100
> From: "Andrew Barber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Open Week
> To: "British Ubuntu Talk" <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com>
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> On 23/10/2007, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Just realised this hasn't been announced on our mailing list..
> >
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek
> >
> > Ubuntu Open Week is a series of online workshops where you can:
> >
> > * learn about the Ubuntu landscape
> >
> > * talk to some of the key developers from the Ubuntu project
> >
> > * find out about the Community and its relationship with
> > Canonical
> >
> > * participate in an open Q&A with Mark Shuttleworth, the founder
> > of Ubuntu
> >
> > * much more...
> >
> > Fire up your IRC clients (irssi / xchat / xchat-gnome / pidgin / gaim)
> > and point them to the Ubuntu (freenode) Servers - irc.freenode.net, then
> > join #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat.
> >
> > #ubuntu-classroom is where the tuition goes on, and -chat is where you
> > ask questions and generally have a good old chat. It's a great idea, and
> > I'm happy to be part of it.
> >
> > I'm giving a session today about Launchpad Answers, and another one on
> > Thursday about something called screencasting (whatever that is).
> >
> > Maybe see you there.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Al.
>
>
>
> Hey,
>
> Just to add a note to inform everybody that the logs of the past 'classes'
> are available online at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/openweekgutsy
>
>
> For those that were not aware and have missed that vital class that you were
> interested in.
>
>
>
> --
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> Message: 9
> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:51:14 +0100
> From: "Andrew Barber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?
> To: "British Ubuntu Talk" <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com>
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> On 23/10/2007, John Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Martin Peeks wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Jai Harrison wrote:
> > >> Hey Guys,
> > >>
> > >> I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss.
> > >> We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best
> > >> Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state
> > >> whether it is ADSL or cable.
> > >>
> > >> Jai
> > >>
> > >
> > > ADSL24 has been excellent for me - but I think nearly anyone would find
> > > themselves happy with any Entanet reseller.
> > >
> > > Martin
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I use UKFSN (www.ukfsn.org) who are an entanet reseller. All that free
> > software goodness (they're currently sponsoring an Ubuntu student
> > coder), great support upstream from Entanet, and no complaints. The only
> > problem I've had was due to BT, who made a bloody mess of things, but
> > eventually (because every time they fixed one problem, made a mess of
> > someone elses phone line)n got things working.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > John
>
>
>
> I really liked my internet connection when I was with Blueyonder (now Virgin
> Media). It just seemed nice and quick. The support was great too, one
> experience was when they sent out a techie and he explained everything in
> depth of what he was doing (he identified I was interested in computing).
>
> I am now unfortunately in an area not supported by Cable, and I am on an
> ADSL connection through Tiscali.
> I personally hate the service and would change if I had any better options.
> Their technical support is absolute crap.
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew Alexander Barber
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