<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 March 2013 10:46, John Edwards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@cornerstonelinux.co.uk" target="_blank">john@cornerstonelinux.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">I think the reason it is built that way it to allow for the</div>
connections to be sent back to the reseller ISPs' networks.<br><div class="im"></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Absolutely. And my friends and colleagues would kill me if they found out I'd be up for nationalising the network infrastructure within the UK to get rid of that bottleneck.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Stop it, Andy, I can feel your eyes burning a hole into the back of my head.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">
But as someone who mainly deals with small businesses, the extra</div>
speed and lower cost (compared to a good DSL ISP) just does not<br>
make up for the possibility of days of downtime.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Then they need to pay more for their internet. Paying only £30/month for your internet connection then complaining you're losing hundreds/thousands of pounds a day when it goes down only shows how cheap people can be.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If a leased line (BT EAD or similar) is too expensive, AAISP do a great offering: <a href="http://aaisp.net.uk/broadband-office1.html">http://aaisp.net.uk/broadband-office1.html</a> (not launched yet)</div>
<div><br></div><div>M </div></div>