[dundee] Broadband Providers

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Hi Simon,

We're using Demon.net and have been for over a year - whats your gripes with them? Appear to get full line speed at least 80% of the time (both ways) and have 64 IPs with full rDNS control all for the bargain price of £47/month

Our second line is via Spitfire.co.uk - they provide interesting packages such as SDSL Dualstream for £85/month (2mbit SDSL + 2mbit ADSL). Have also been with Spitfire about a year, the good thing about them is its fully UK based and you always receive professional support and a real SLA. The phone line is also with Spitfire which gives them the ability to sort problems quicker (within 4 hours?).

The Spitfire connection does outperform the Demon connection.. never had less than 800KB/s even on their £29/month "unmetered" package. They do have a fair use policy, but only to protect their asses - we use at *least* 250GB per month with them for daily data backups.

If Spitfire sounds intersting I can pass you over to them (oh joy commission :p)

Regards,
Sean McRobbie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Wells" <swells at computing.dundee.ac.uk>
To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Cc: "Simon Wells" <swells at computing.dundee.ac.uk>
Sent: Thursday, 5 February, 2009 12:16:35 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: [dundee] Broadband Providers

Hi everybody,

I am considering changing my broadband provider from demon.net to  
something else. Does anybody have any suggestions for good providers?  
(I cannot get cable so will stick with ADSL for the time being).

I am leaning towards ukfsn.org at the moment, they have scaleable  
bandwidth allowances so I don't get too penalised for heavy usage,  
just shifted up into the next band, and they actually have a way to  
track how much you have transferred, rather than surprising you with a  
restriction. Also their donation of profits to free software projects  
is having a large effect on my decision at the moment. Nevertheless, I  
thought that I would try here for more suggestions before making a  
final decision.

Simon

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