Re: OT: suggestions of uncapped Broadband >512Kbp in UK
> On 3 Aug 2005, at 12:35, michael wrote:
>
>> OFF TOPIC (not sure which is more appropriate list)
>>
>> I've moved house and need to get Broadband installed. I'll be
>> running X
>> from a remote site and it seems a 1Gb or 2Gb cap will be too
>> restrictive. So any suggestions of uncapped (reliable) B'band ISPs in
>> the UK - preferable at 1Mbs or higher.
>>
>> I considered Tiscali & NTL but then I saw too many negative reviews
>> [NB:
>> there's no cable in my street so it'd be NTL's freedom service and
>> it's
>> unclear which of NTL's services were being slated). The next best
>> seems
>> Tesco - uncapped but only 512Kbps...
>
> I was with PlusNet for 12 months until the end of June and I didn't
> have any trouble at all from them. The only trouble I ever had was
> caused by BT cutting the line for a few days... Static IP, uncapped,
> with a range of available speeds. Note that you'll always only get
> 256 Kbps upstream bandwidth unless you go for SDSL which is very
> expensive.
FWIW I can highly recommend Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.co.uk) - I have
been with them for coming up to 2 years now, and have had zero problems
with them.
Their technical support staff are great - on the 2 occasions I have had to
use it (both times it was BT's problem at the exchange end) I have found
the staff extremely helpful, polite and knowledgable - they didn't get
phased at all when I mentioned that I run Debian with many connections
behind my router.
The package is static IP, no ports blocked, no bandwidth limits with free
webspace/email etc. - all in all I am more than happy with them.
HTH.
Cheers,
Pete.
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