[HLUG] Broadband Fees

[Andrew Hodgson]

Hi,

I would definitely stick away from Talk Talk or similar.  There is never
such a thing as a free lunch.

At home we use www.aaisp.net.uk, they use an interesting approach by having
an L2TP router on our side of the BT link, which means that although the
traffic goes through the BT routers, they can do things such as load
balancing etc a lot better, meaning a much more stable connection.  The
other thing is that their off peak period is from 6:00 P.M, and all
weekends, which is when we do all our transfers, meaning I hardly use any of
my allotted bandwidth usage (around 500 mb a month during the day).

They are slightly pricy, (probably a bit too pricy for most home users), but
I would give them a check out.  I get some of the money back from doing some
remote backups for some people, which helps recoup the costs.

The other ones I would look at are Plusnet and www.f2s.com.

Thanks.
Andrew.

-----Original Message-----
From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of alabaster
Sent: 28 April 2006 12:25
To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
Subject: Re: [HLUG] Broadband Fees

Hi Chris,

I have read articles in consumer sections of press that do not give
TalkTalk Broadband as very worthwhile. You should know that they will
connect their own broadband router at the exchange (not use BT) and if
you decide to cancel after initial period, I believe there is a charge
of £70. The £10 pm charge for broadband not available in your area puts
the cost up quite badly.

You might want to consider getting broadband from Clara, or at least
check out the cost. Also Clara use BT equipment which is well
established and works well. I wanted to keep my email address and ISP
(Demon), so looked at their cost. It is about £12 pm for ISP only and
about £25 for ISP with broadband. At the time this was comparable or
better than keeping my ISP and getting broadband elsewhere, so I took
it.

Hope this is helpful, or at least makes you look very carefully before
deciding.

Regards

Gordon.


On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 12:45 +0100, Chris Owens wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
>     Q1. Have been tempted by the TalkTalk offer but they say the 'Free' 
> Broadband isn't available in Tenbury and want to charge £10/m in 
> addition to the basic £9.99/m. If I were to sign up to this am I right 
> in assuming I would also have to pay £16/m to Clara.net for their 
> Broadband service (currently I use their free dial-up on an 0845 number) 
> i.e.£35.99/m.
> 
>     Q2. TalkTalk say the host machine should have Windows ME, 2000, XP 
> etc. Does that mean what it says or can one use some kind of 'Emulator' 
> possibility to enable a Linux based system to function.
> 
> Sorry to be so thick.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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