OT: RE: [Scottish] Good ISP for ADSL business and hosting?

[Paxton, Darren]

Points noted Colin - I do agree with you on the scope of maintaining the
facilities.

Regarding NTL however, I'm in the east end, and probably because there isnt
such a large uptake of broadband, I regularly get my full 124KB speed from
the 1meg link. Whereabouts in the city are you? Have you had your signal
levels checked?

2) I agree here, although the text server that was implemented recently has
been remarkably solid

3) All too true - you get better support from the newsgroups (when you can
access them) than from anyone at ntl, although from what I've been told -
there are a *select few* techies who know their stuff.

Darren

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin McKinnon [mailto:colin@wew.co.uk]
Sent: 31 January 2003 12:10
To: scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Scottish] Good ISP for ADSL business and hosting?

....not to mention the fact that any ISP worth their salt is going to 
put a lot of time and effort into ensuring that their facilities are 
available and secure - I wouldn't want to undertake that responsibility 
for the sake of shaving a few pounds of the running costs. Also remember 
that ADSL is not a "permanent" connection although most implementations 
of it function as if they were.

Of course if you're ISP isn't up to the job you might be better off 
doing it yourself.

 > I think NTL hold the franchise for Glasgow City Centre

Personally, I'm not very impressed with my domestic service from them:
    1) low bandwidth - although I've only got 128k link, it frequesntly 
goes a LOT slower
    2) News servers - massively overloaded. I've given up trying to news 
even with cron'ed leafnode
    3) Support - ha ha ha!

The phone works most of the time but I have had a couple of outages. I'm 
now on my third set-top box in a year and still get regular outages.

Colin
(who gets work Email through an EdNet server via SMTP - I don't want to 
go on and on but these guys are the dog's danglys)


_______________________________________________
Scottish mailing list
Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged.
If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you
should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are
prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information
contained herein.  Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return
e-mail.  Thank you for your co-operation. 
Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is regulated by the Financial
Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards
Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House,
14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB