[Wiltshire] Any ISP recommendations please?

[David Fletcher]

On Sun, 2021-10-24 at 20:32 +0100, Simon Iremonger via Wiltshire wrote:
> 
> 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.

I had a good chat with technical at Zen late this afternoon. Very
interesting. I expect I'll speak to sales in the morning.

Also had a chat with Virgin Media to tell them that I had returned the
rubbish new equipment. He was very talkative and, I think, learned a
few things from me. For example he thought Linux was dying out so I
pointed him at netcraft.com and suggested he investigate the google and
amazon sites for starters.

The techie who took the equipment away seemed to be no more impressed
with his employer and its services than we are!

The strange thing is, after telling them today that I'm leaving, the
WiFi which has recently been dawn and up multiple times per hour every
evening hasn't been down at all! Coincidence I wonder? I did issue a
warning to the guy at Virgin that with the now wide availability of
fibre to the home at decent prices they'd better watch out.


> 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!.

Are these sold on by BT after being returned by BT customers? My lady
friend had a new BT hub sent to her a few months ago which I configured
for her to match the previous one, which they wanted returned in a
prepaid package.


> A good plan is to have something like this with a Zen/AAISP
> supplied zyxel/technicolor router as "tested working backup"
> alongside.

Good idea. I like my backups including hardware if possible. I have a
spare identical server board. A functionally equivalent router too
would be reassuring.


> --Simon

Dave