[Klug-general] ISPs

[Laurence Southon]

rich-ayres at tiscali.co.uk wrote:
>           All suggestions  gratefully received
>
Have you checked out exactly what is available at your exchange:

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/checker2.php?p=summary

The picture is confused at the moment, as there are now three principal
ways of getting ADSL:

Resold BT Wholesale ADSLmax, eg Eclipse, Zen, Plusnet etc

LLU ADSL2 services, eg Be, O2

Resold BT Wholesale WBC (21CN). This is a BT ADSL2 service available at
some exchanges, and some resellers, eg Zen, are beginning to roll this
out, but will not be complete for about a year. Not sure of the status
of others.

Anecdotally, changing to an ADSL2 service will probably double your
download (and upload!) speed on the same BT line. That's a significant
change in the time to download a Linux ISO, for instance.

HTH,

LS
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Laurence Southon
Tiger Computing, Bexley
www.tiger-computing.co.uk