[Wolves] Broadband recommendations

[Adam Sweet]

--- kev adams <kev at magicmoon.co.uk> wrote:

> I've been with plusnet now for 4 or 5 years & would
> have probably switched if 
> I wasn't so lazy - I have a domain registered with
> them for my personal email 
> & couldn't be bothered with the agravation of
> switching over to another 
> provider.  I've only had a broadband account with
> them for the last couple of 
> years and seem to get about 2-3 outages per year,
> sometimes as long as 24 
> hours before it's completely fixed & all domains get
> full resolved.  Email 
> access can go wierd once in a while too & takes a
> day or two to catch up once 
> it's fixed.  It's always amused me how many "normal"
> (but much too 
> enthusiastic) users keep popping up in plusnet's
> forums to give scathing 
> personal attacks to any one who complains about the
> poor service - and then 
> tell the world how great they've found plusnet to
> be.  I've got a home worker 
> account by the way which is probably the same as
> Lees at £29.99 per month.  
> So the outage problem is doubly annoying!
> 
> That said maybe this kind of outage is normal?  I'd
> be interested to hear 
> others experience of their service provider?

I've been with Freedom to Surf for about a year now
and have had no outages at all. I did get a spluttery
connection that lasted 4 or 5 days at a time a few
times with BT Openworld before that, but no such
problems with F2S.

They do 2Mb and 100GB transfer for £27.99 per month on
a yearly contract or the same for £24.99 plus £50
activation fee on a monthly contract. They do other
deals based on less transfer. The details are at
http://www.f2s.net/adsl/homeuser.php

I'm on a static IP address, 50:1 contention, with
512Kb, no transfer limit for £22.50 per month. I'm too
lazy and poor to take up one of their newer deals. I
get around 60KB per second.

They sell modems starting at £30 for a USB ADSL modem,
or you can get your own elsewhere. I didn't get a
install CD from them but maybe thats because I did a
migration. I have no idea how to set it up on Windows
by hand, but it's all plugged into my Smoothwall and
works fine.

All account details are configurable online.

They're my recommendation. And they use Linux
according to Ron.

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