[Gllug] Aaaaarrrggghhh!!!! I need a working ISP

Juergen Schinker ba1020 at homie.homelinux.net
Mon Dec 22 16:34:15 UTC 2008


Juergen Schinker wrote:
> - Tethys wrote:
>> I know we've been through this before, but I need some recommendations
>> for an ISP. I need:
>>
>> 1. Telephone technical support (email only is not good enough)
> 
> 24x7
> 
>> 2. Technical support out of working hours. The times I tend to notice
>>    things breaking are when I'm at home and using the service,
>>    not when I'm at work. Ideally, the support would be 24x7, but
>>    I could cope with at least being open late at night during the
>>    week. Being open at weekends is a must. I've been without
>>    email this weekend, and there's nothing I could do about it.
>>    I have had the same problem when my connectivity has
>>    gone down in the past (sadly all too common these days)
> 
> Yes
>> 3. 8Mb/s -- faster would be good, but it's not necessary
> 
> 24Mb/s down 1.3 Mb/s up
> 
>> 4. Sensibly priced for around 20GB usage/month
> 15£ for 40G
> 
>> 5. Nothing whatsoever to do with Tiscali
> dunno
>> 6. Multiple static IP addresses. At the moment I have a /28, which is fine
> 
> one ip
> 
>> 7. No firewalling, filtering or other tampering with my traffic
> 
> yes (who knows)
> 
> 
> add native ipv6 support plus /48 prefix
> 
> but don't get me wrong i cannot really recommend them
> 
> i just played with the idea to switch to them
> 
> have a look
> 
> juergen

oh i forgot to mention the ISP

www.goscomb.net
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