[Wiltshire] Any ISP recommendations please?

[Peter Braidwood]

Definitely +1 for AAISP, I have been with them for years, have 2 lines now, bonded using one of their firebricks. /28 network for IPv4 and /48 for IPv6.

Yes it isn’t the cheapest, but you get what you pay for.

Peter

> On 24 Oct 2021, at 20:32, Simon Iremonger via Wiltshire <wiltshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> Firstly to say, you are not the first to have trouble with vermin
> media and trouble with intermittent wifi on supplied routers
> (most who want better service put them into 'modem mode' and
> connect their own devices/network/wifi-APs/etc instead).
> 
> A friend of mine has just got vermin media to cough up 200ukp
> for persistent billing failures, and they have immediately
> proceeded to repeat the mistake subsequently, and is wondering
> the best way to keep getting more and more 100..200 ukp compensation
> payments out of them [!!].
> 
> 
>>> Whilst configuring it this morning I found that it refuses to forward
>>> port 25 with some error message about it being reserved.
>> It looks like you're trying to receive email from the world at large by
>> having them connect to your dynamic home IP address which they pick up
>> through the DNS MX record set with a dynamic DNS supplier?
> 
> That was my understanding, yes.
> 
> 
>>> Does anybody have recommendations? I could get BT to reconnect the
>>> copper phone line which would probably be simplest way
>> Which? consistently rank Zen Internet at the top based on their
>> evaluation and their subscribers' feedback.  Andrews & Arnold seem to be
>> a favourite amongst technical people but their price reflects their
>> quality, it seems.
> 
> 
> I can +1 both AAISP and Zen as helpful Dual-Stack IPv4+IPv6 ISPs.
> AAISP will arrange a 'copper pair' (dummy phone line) for A/V DSL,
> Zen can arrange actual phone-service too if desired.
> 
> 
> AAISP will even provide multiple IPv4 addresses if desired.
> Their 'helpfulness' may be worth the extra money to you, customer
> can access monitoring and test graphs themselves, contact *real*
> staff in IRC or Email, etc....   They do have usage limits but
> these are very high and keep the network free of excessive-users,
> in my view/experience not really a problem for most.
> 
> 
> With AAISP at least, you can have static IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
> and set up forward-confirmed reverse-DNS on both, such that your
> server can directly smtp email to remote recipients without
> requiring any 3rd-party outgoing server nor any dynamic dns.
> 
> 
> I do not know about Zen and IPv6 reverse DNS, I only have quite
> outdated experience of their IPv4 reverse DNS system.
> 
> 
> I can also recommend (or help with) how to put OpenWRT on a
> BT HomeHub v5 Type A  which then gives you a reasonable mostly-
> FOSS solution on WAN-router yet cheaply, noting that there are
> few options for DSL-supporting OpenWRT devices.  These are limited
> to about 160mbps CPU throughput, but then that is basically fine
> for VDSL wan-lan traffic and wifi-lan traffic from the inbuilt
> AP, and for about 20 pounds these things are amazing value for
> money!.
> 
> A good plan is to have something like this with a Zen/AAISP
> supplied zyxel/technicolor router as "tested working backup"
> alongside.
> 
> 
> --Simon
> 
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