[Scottish] Good ISP for ADSL business and hosting?

[Stephen Gallacher]

Tam,
Your area is covered by NTL :-
http://business.ntl.com/en/broadband/index.jhtml

Stephen.

Quoting Tam McLaughlin <tamm@scotlegal.com>:

> Thanks,
> I just checked online at blueyonder if cable modem was available at our post
> code but it looks like it's just ADSL (Glasgow city centre). 
> Our company has a limited lifetime before "policy administration" is taken 
> over by a third party and the IT department will probably be made redundant
> 
> before that, so I have to make things as simple as possible. Although we run
> 
> an internal SMTP mail server, with force9, we can switch to pop3 accounts 
> if required without too much trouble. I guess we don't really need a 2 Mb/s
> 
> line but will save thousands a year by moving from the leased line so the
> difference in price between a 512k, 1M and 2M line becomes insignificant.
> 
> On Friday 31 January 2003 9:54 am, Paxton, Darren wrote:
> > Tam
> >
> > Have you checked if an business cable modem service is available in your
> > area? I'm not sure if you'd want to go down this route, but you could
> > always look at hosting all your services yourself, this would allow you
> > full control over your website and also SMTP management. However the
> > downside to this would obviously be that your website would be limited in
> > bandwidth by whatever upload speed is determined by your connection.
> > (Currently I'm on the 1meg residential cable modem service, therefore
> I've
> > only got 256k Upload - not sure about other services - also, I use the
> > NO-IP+ to manage DNS for my connection, from what I gather, business
> > connections give you static addresses so it may be an option).
> >
> > Like i said, not sure if its your cup of tea, but worth pointing out a
> > possible alternative.
> >
> > Darren
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tam Mclaughlin [mailto:home@tammclaughlin.co.uk]
> > Sent: 30 January 2003 19:59
> > To: scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk
> > Subject: Re: [Scottish] Good ISP for ADSL business and hosting?
> >
> >
> > Sorry, what I meant to say was that although a particular ISP may be good
> > for
> > a home user, they may not necessarily offer a good service for a business
> > environment e.g. I have ISDN at home and connect less than 20 hours per
> > week
> >
> > but moving my work to plus net's ADSL 2 Mb/s line 8 hours/day may be a
> > different story.
> >
> > I suspect that the ADSL service will be good but I am just looking for
> > other
> >
> > opinions before I make the commitment and from what you have said, plus
> net
> > sounds positive.
> >
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> Tam McLaughlin
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