<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 5/2/09, Andrew Clayton <i><andrew@digital-domain.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net><br>Subject: Re: [dundee] Broadband Providers<br>To: dundee@lists.lug.org.uk<br>Date: Thursday, 5 February, 2009, 8:22 PM<br><br><pre>On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:16:35 +0000, Simon Wells wrote:<br><br>> Hi everybody,<br>> <br>> I am considering changing my broadband provider from demon.net to<br>> something else. Does anybody have any suggestions for good providers?<br>> (I cannot get cable so will stick with ADSL for the time being).<br>> <br>> I am leaning towards ukfsn.org at the moment, they have scaleable<br>> bandwidth allowances so I don't get too penalised for heavy usage,<br>> just
shifted up into the next band, and they actually have a way to<br>> track how much you have transferred, rather than surprising you with<br>> a restriction. Also their donation of profits to free software<br>> projects is having a large effect on my decision at the moment.<br>> Nevertheless, I thought that I would try here for more suggestions<br>> before making a final decision.<br><br>They are probably OK. At least the money goes to a good cause.<br><br>I use Andrews & Arnold http://aaisp.net.uk/, also one of the smaller<br>technical ISPs, plenty of ex demonites (myself included) are with them.<br>As well as Linux folks, like Alan Cox, David Woodhouse (and Dave Jones until <br>he moved to the US). They'll give you blocks of static IPs, support IPv6<br>and <br>don't block or filter traffic/ports and don't force you through any<br>proxies. <br>Just a nice a raw internet connection. Yes, they are not the cheapest, this <br>is to
discourage people who would use things like p2p all day long, they do<br>closely meter traffic usage , but provide you with detailed graphs to<br>show useage/latencies etc. http://aaisp.net.uk/kb-broadband-cqm.html<br><br>They are also pretty good at discovering problems within BT and<br>getting onto them to fix stuff. Oh and they actively support Linux and<br>use it extensively in their own network, including core routers.<br><br>They do business in very open maner. They have a USENET news group,<br>uk.net.providers.aaisp A blog at http://aaisp.blogspot.com/ and an<br>IRC channel at irc://irc.nixhelp.org/A&A where employees of the<br>company (including the Director) hang out. <br><br>They do go for the more technical user (of which you'd certainly<br>apply) but if your usage is likely to be including a lot of<br>bittorreting and p2p stuff etc, then they maybe aren't for you.<br>
<br><br>Andrew<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br><br>wow, they sound great, So go for smaller ISP that want<br>your business.<br><br>It's a shame smallers isp don't have the buying power in terms of<br>bandwidth, so really they have no choice . Isp like virgin can<br>dictate the market, and therefore the price. But everything<br>else from them usually sucks. If you want to do anything apart<br>from surf the web,then there usually clueless.<br><br>If only some kind global transit network could come in and<br>save us from the telco's.... google...where are you?<br><br>I surprised how much bandwidth is costing at the moment,even<br>uk -- uk traffic, seems to be costing a fortune.<br><br>as network speeds increase, and networking equipment
gets<br>cheaper, shouldn't you get more for your buck, not less?<br><br>Cheers,<br>Lee<br><br><br><br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>