[Wylug-help] BT (ADSL?) connection instead of cable ... or not.

[Roger]

Hi,

The background ...

For ages, I've been on Cable for my LAN's internet connection: first 
Bradford Cable, then Yorkshire Cable, then Virgin.  At that time, the 
Virgin Home service wasn't adequate for my needs - I was serving a 
number of websites from my server - so I changed to ntl Business as my ISP.

All too soon, Virgin took over ntl, so since then I've been paying for 
the Virgin Business service.

For technical, rather than commercial, reasons (I couldn't fix the 
problems cause by IANA's most recent IP table changes) I no longer serve 
websites (though I keep Apache running to serve my intra-net).  That 
means I don't need that level of service, while retirement means that 
the cost (~£40 per month) really isn't justified...

The question ...

One option I looked at seriously was the Post Office's phone+broadband 
package (half the price).  However, their website only offers support 
for Windows and Apple machines, while I want to keep running my Linux 
server.

Since I have a cable connection, their website couldn't cope and when I 
rang their 0800 number, they told me I'd have to have my cable 
connection removed and replaced by a BT line.

As a first reaction, I told them I wasn't interested and hung up.  I 
know how to handle a cable connection with my Linux server, but handling 
a BT, presumably ADSL, connection, to my Linux server (when they don't 
say they support Linux) freaked me out.  Where would I get the advice 
I'd need to cope?

Is anyone here able to provide such advice (how to handle a BT ADSL 
connection), or to suggest an alternative Linux-friendly, cable ISP - at 
a lower cost than I'm paying now?

TIA,
Roger

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