[Gllug] ADSL Connection

[Andre Newman]

On Friday 18 Jan 2002 3:42 pm, you wrote:
> Hi Chaps,
>
>          Any of you guys had any experiences with this
> in the UK, I want setup my own apache webserver (get
> my own ip) and eventually firewall it! Anyone with
> good experiences?

Mailbox have been pretty good for me, they had a mail server outage recently 
and they are subject (as are all ADSL ISP's unless you live in Hull) to BT 
trashing the ADSL infrastructure at regular intervals :-( Other than that 
they seem pretty straightforward, they gave me the MX records I asked for 
even though I'm on the punter lowlife USB tariff. They don't run transparent 
caches and they don't port block (get yourself a good firewall, my snort logs 
make for scary reading!).

the impression I got was that if you know your stuff and know what to ask for 
you will get it. Within a few minutes of me calling to get the service fired 
up I was discussing the ins and outs of USB frog drivers for Linux, although 
I don't think that's standard fare for support.

the USB frog is awful, don't go there. As soon as my contract allows I'm 
getting a proper router.

Don't forget that ADSL is the wrong way round for bandwidth if you want to 
run a webserver, unless it's just for fun :-) 

Cheers

Andre

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