On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> the hatter hatter wrote, with reguards to demon:
>
> > From 12ukp/month and normal bt minutes prices, with static IP and no
> > kick-offs, then you can F+F/FF it or surftime it through BT for
> > cheap/free calls, or pay extra to demon for cheaper/free calls, up to
> > 40ukp/month for 24/7 free access (20 to demon and 20 to bt)
>
> I was doing that, then got wires only from eclipse for 33 ukp/month. i
> guess it depends just how much time you want to spend online....
in addition 24/7 phone access is all very well and good, but it'll tie up
your phone line 24/7 too. ADSL won't. Also, a decent ADSL router
(according to desnarf, who's just got one) can have an inbuilt firewall.
Assuming your mother is running Windows this might not be a bad idea.
I use blueyonder which is reasonably cheap (especially if you get tv and
phone from them too.) It terminatinates to a rj45 which plugs into my
smoothie box. The connection/bandwidth used to be terrible, but they seem
to have been okay in the last six months. They use a transproxy.
Consider if you would be willing to have a transproxy on your connection
or not too. Having one will cause you problems accessing some sites and
may bandwidth bottleneck you though services with them tend to be cheaper.
(for the record smoothwalls inbuilt transproxy is great at routing around
other transroxies)
Later.
Mark.
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