Thread: Need to find an ADSL provider

What speed do you want ?
Max or Traditional (i.e. fixed or variable contention) ?

An other services (mail, domain, dns, hosting) or strictly connection ?

Well, for over 750Kbps upload you're going to have to go with ADSL2+ which means LLU or bonding of two lines unless you can get SDSL (which costs a fortune comparatively)

I think I'll wave the flag here! We can do all of above, ipstream capped and un-capped, datastream, wholesale LLU, SDSL, LLines etc. Drop me a PM or take a look.. Cheers

Originally Posted by PeteK

I think I'll wave the flag here

We probably all can, but as its outside of the advertising forums no-one else wh0red themselves quite as much Pete

Back on topic - what's the budget as 1mbit/s upload speed gets you into SDSL, bonded ADSL, or CN21/ADSL2 territory ?

Cap limits are fine as long as they're realistic to your usage - if you really are handling 1mb/s up/down, then a limit of 300Gb/month is very manageable

Oh, and where is the line ( postcode ) as that can limit your possibilties.

Othello,
though my company is in the UK, there are several reasons not to live in it: one of which is the "peculiar" ADSL service conditions. Over here I have a 10mb/1mb at like £23+VAT, it's in fast, is residential and don't have a cap limit nor strange stuff like "fair usage".

My budget is between 20 to 30 ex VAT per month. Download is not important, upload is, and I can have the guy live with 512k, it isn't like he is going to die, you know! I still remember when I used to go on the 'net via UUCP with a 14400b modem back in '91, and I surviverd , so can he with 512k. But really, for the type of job, I'd rather not go less then 512k.

Bonding, IMHO, is more trouble then what it is worth, so I won't go that path. Regarding the postcode, let me enquire

Originally Posted by DaVinciRisk

Bonding, IMHO, is more trouble then what it is worth, so I won't go that path. Regarding the postcode, let me enquire

That is why you give it to a company to provide as a fully managed service, OOB access, full hands off to yourselves... I can think of at least one that offers this ;-)

I can recommend Zen, excellent service.

At home I use a Be Unlimited ADSL2 connection @ 4 KM from the exchange my line is synced at 16 Mbit/s. My upstream is 1.2 Mbit/s and a fixed IP comes as part of the package for £18 /month.

Never had a problem but at stephend said put the Bebox in the bin and get yourself a decent router. Also the BeBox / BT Homehub / O2 Box are all based on Thompson Speedtouch routers which have a known bug in them when streaming flash video i.e. iPlayer.

Stuart

Originally Posted by stephend

Saying that, you do need a Bebox because if you have line problems and the box isn't plugged in then Be aren't interested.

Just plug it back in if you need help from them.

Or if your really anal like me clone the MAC address of your Be Box and they will never know! Best hardware is a WRT54G box running OpenWRT.

Stuart