We've switched our ADSL pipe from a 34M bearer to a 155M and are now getting very nice latency numbers (aside from the odd SDH problem like last night) of around 16ms to the Netscalibur side of the pipe.
For a long term comparison (latency only) look at
http://www.codeburst.net/ukisp-rtt
I believe our SOHO (wires-only) offering is 29/month. Just think, you can help pay the salary of several london-pm readers and contributors as well. Even better, you can hassle them on the list when there's a problem.
- Mark
On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 10:47 AM, Juliet Kemp wrote:
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:31:33PM +0100, Jon Reades wrote:Roger Burton West wrote: <snip><snip>Finally, are there any ADSL suppliers to avoid, or that are wonderful. [3]
...you'll probably want to steer clear of BT...
I can back that up - our BT broadband installation (paid for by
partner's work when he started working from home, & they insisted on BT
on the "noone ever got fired for buying IBM" basis) took a month & a
half to sort out. Initial appointment required a 3-week wait; engineer
then showed up with the wrong bits, which turned out to be because they
had the wrong plan booked on their system. Engineer did not, of course,
have *right* bits in van & thus had to go away again. Rebooking, it
transpired, required phoning up & cancelling, then *waiting 24 hrs* and
phoning again. Because otherwise the system would get confused & think
that the rebooking needed cancelling as well (riiight). Except we
continued not to hear anything back from them, & it eventually
transpired that it wasn't 24hrs you needed to wait, it was 48hrs. Cue
another couple of weeks waiting for an engineer appt...
*And* then they gave us the wrong username on the piece of paper, & that
took about an hour on the phone to sort out.
Having said that, only one connection outage since, touch wood. But would *not* recommend them at all.
Juliet
