On 29 Jan 2003 at 18:41, William T Goodall wrote: > In the UK most people who have a phone line can use any dialup ISP > from anywhere. And if you are in range of an ADSL enabled exchange [1] > you can use any broadband ISP to provide your service. With cable > broadband it depends which (if any) cable company has wired your area. > [2]
Actually, as I recall it's ~60% have ADSL but another 15% odd have access to broadband via cable internet (not including the overlap zones) for an overall somewhere between 70 and 70 percent. And let me restate - all the "home" deals for dial-up access in the UK kick you off every 2 hours, and they kick you off the *ISP entirely* if in any 24 hour rolling period you're connected for more than 12 hours. The ONLY exception is AOL. There's also the slight fact as well that dial-up ISP's are £15 or less a month, and while broadband can be had for the ~£25 range, there are activation costs (£60) and hardware (from £40 for a ADSL PCI card to £120 for a nice ethernet ADSL router and 4-port switch) to consider, plus likely 2+ microfilters at £7.50 each.... Andy Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
