[Gllug] Off Topic: Backup ISP

[david at gbenet.com]

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In a word - crap - they offer speeds "upto" and that means ou only get 10 per cent of your
bandwidth - I have 10 Mbs - but on average only get 224Kb - or none at all. For 5 months I
had only 1 day on average per week when i had a connection. I told them that they lied that
their service was utter crap - makes no difference what you say - they are only interested
in screwing you.

David

Bernard Peek wrote:
> On 26/03/11 21:00, Mick Farmer wrote:
>> One obvious alternative is adding Virgin broadband to our
>> setup.  What do you think of Virgin's service?
> 
> Think like a nuclear power-plant designer. Just what catastrophe are you
> attempting to protect against and what level of reliability do you need?
> What are the consequences of losing connectivity for a day? That's how
> long it will take you to go out and buy a 3G dongle. I'd say that the
> marginal benefit of adding a second provider will be negligible. But if
> Senate House have more money than sense they might want the backup.
> Provided VM has at least 90% uptime then it would be a reasonable backup.
> 

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