[Nottingham] Buying broadband and computers - who is best out there?

[Simon Osborne]

jdel wrote:
> Hello NLUG,
> 
> I'm getting a grant for a project I'm working on next month and I'll be 
> getting broadband (for a year if I have to) but I'd like to know who 
> provides the most reliable, fastest installed, and best supported 
> service in Nottingham.  I don't have a POTS line, but would get one if 
> necessary.  In NYC I had cable, but I'd rather go with a DSL line here.  
> I'm not sure if they even provide broadband over the television cable 
> networks here. 

Simple. Go for ntl. It's a cable service, they do TV and phoneline too 
and the broadband is through the cable. You can have it standalong if 
you like.

300k is 17.99 a month, 750 is 24.99 & 1.5mb is 37.99 per month.
> 
> Also, I recall using an ISP that gave out a free Solaris 
> shell when you subscribed to a dialup account, so any perks like that 
> would be a plus. 

I don't know of any ISP in the UK that does this, certainly not the 
larger ones.

> Can anyone recommend and/or get me a copy of a good 
> distro that doesn't try to do too much automagically?

If you like Slackware I have Slack 10 that you can have. I didn't get on 
with it.

Simon