After examining the ADSL24 site more closely, I will pass on switching to them as they appear to be just another Entanet reseller.
Anyone else got any good suggestions for a good broadband ISP that offers up to 24 Mbit/s, no LLU, not Entanet, TalkTalk-related or Virgin? David King David King wrote: > I also use UKFSN for my broadband ISP, and lately the service has been > rubbish. I am getting much slower speeds, sometimes down to less than > 1 Mbit/s. And the technical support is currently non-existent. I think > it is a one-man show, who means well, wanting to support free open > source software, but he obviously does not have the manpower to deal > with queries and EntaNet are badly letting down the customers, for > which UKFSN is a reseller. > > I have always heard many bad things about Tiscali, Pipex, and > TalkTalk. Now they are all part of the same ISP, I will avoid them > like the plague. I also hear that Virgin is very bad too, although if > you can get cable and it works, and you do not have to deal with their > helplines, it might be okay, but after many bad experiences with NTL > in the past I will never go with them again, even though they are now > rebranded as Virgin Media. > > I had a look at the http://adsl24.co.uk website, and according to > that, I can get up to 24 Mbit/s where I live. Although their site > suggests I would only get 3.2 Mbit/s, which is rather poor, > considering I am only 2 km from the exchange. Maybe the routing of the > BT cables is so not straight that it is a lot more than 2 km along the > wires? I measured the distance on Google Earth, it was less than 2 km > in a straight line, so about 2 km along the main roads. Elsewhere I > read that at 2 km I should get 15 Mbit/s. > > I was considering BE but I do not like 12-month contracts, and their > site does not give any details that I could find about cancelling. But > they do allow for unlimited bandwidth, which is helpful when > downloading updates to Ubuntu or various distro ISO files to try out, > as well as the various free movies on > http://www.archive.org/details/movies or free music from > http://freealbums.blogsome.com/ > > ADSL24 have more limited bandwidth, the same as UKFSN currently offers > (£18.90 for 30 GB peak, unlimited at weekends and 00:00-08:00). > > > As for hosting, I use 1&1 Internet Ltd. > <http://www.1and1.co.uk/?k_id=3899401> > > They have been very good for hosting overall, and I can have as many > domain names there as I like (all paid for of course), so it's good > for hosting multiple sites in one hosting space. I once had a problem > with using FTP, they password they supplied contained a / character, > and the FTP worked fine in Windows, but when I switched to using Linux > it would not work, until I changed the password to something without > any unusual characters in. > > > David King > > > John Levin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm looking for reccomendations for broadband suppliers and hosting. >> >> First off, I'm getting rid of Entanet (via UKFSN) as they've seen fit to >> more than double their charges! (Getting ready for long phone session to >> customer services today) Don't have cable, so looking for a >> geek-friendly adsl service. >> >> Secondly, I'm looking for a second hosting service. I use evohosting >> http://www.evohosting.co.uk/ >> and am very happy with them, but in case of failure want to have (and to >> be able to reccomend to others) a secondary web/email system. Plus I'd >> like ubuntu-based servers, just for fun. Any suggestions? >> >> TIA >> >> John >> >> -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
