Hi,
I currently have Talk-Talk as my ISP at home, originally starting with Nildram
and as them changed hands many times (Pipex -> Tiscali -> TalkTalk). It's fair
to say that the customer service standard has dropped with each take over and
while the monthly cost has fallen a little. I'm coming to towards the end of
my most recent 12-month contract and I'm considering alternatives. I'd also
love to get rid of BT at the same time an even more evil company...
For ISP I know that Zen and Andrews and Arnold have a good reputation how are
UK Free Software Network or thePhoneCo-op?
During the week day 8am - 6pm my home network ticks over and pretty much
doesn't do much, I SSH into it now and then and email is pulled down to it by
fetchmail but that's about it. At the evening we do normal browsing and I tend
to run aptitude to update local machines. The only heavy downloading I do,
distro ISOs, BBC iPlayer tv and radio programs takes place between midnight
and 6am.
I note that some ISPs provide "unlimited" downloads at night, others do not. I
probably pull less than 10 GiB a month during the day, but possibly over 1 GiB
a night (if there is some good HD stuff on the Beeb).
I'd also like to get rid of BT for my phone line - I hate the company - in
that situation I'm just looking for a reliable telco with cheap international
rates (France) and I don't care about UK calls day time or evening as I almost
never make any calls these days. Any suggestions?
Just looking for current opinions and suggestions, given that the only option
I have is an unbundled BT exchange - so no competition from any one else...
and no ADSL2+/VDSL or Virgin cable. Who ever I pick will have to run their
service over BTs rusty wires and via their antique ADSL DSLAM...
--
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK
When a Microsoft product is the lesser of two evils, you know for
sure that there's something fishy going on.
-- anon
