Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-27 Thread Mark Harrison
James Grabham wrote: > > > I'm with them at the moment but am considering a move to TalkTalk, > which appears to be outstanding value and available in my area: any > horror stories with them? > My brother was completely without phone service (let alone ADSL) for about a week after mov

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-27 Thread James Grabham
Well, it was fine (if a little slow) in the old days when you actually had to pay them!! :o Then it came free, and it would only work for about 2 hours a day! Now it hardly ever fails, and is fairly fast, and has a 40GB limit (not as good as when it was unlimited, but come on, whos gonna use 40GB

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-27 Thread William Anderson
Jai Harrison wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. > We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best > Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state > whether it is ADSL or cable. I use two ADSL connections at

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-26 Thread Tom Bamford
g units and n'er the twain shall meet without > > undue punishment. > > > > Of course, if you're lucky enough to live in a cabled area, you can jump > > onto that bandwagon and enjoy those delights. > > > > E > > > > PS This may be slightl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-26 Thread Skeg Fast
#x27;re lucky enough to live in a cabled area, you can jump > onto that bandwagon and enjoy those delights. > > E > > PS This may be slightly biased as I'm employed by a BT subsidary. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-26 Thread Ian Pascoe
lights. E PS This may be slightly biased as I'm employed by a BT subsidary. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tony Travis Sent: 26 October 2007 18:33 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP? Matthew Larsen wrote: &g

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-26 Thread Tony Travis
Matthew Larsen wrote: >> [...] > Well your a very lucky dog because BT is absolutely appauling with me, > and has been since 2001. They are slow, expensive, force you to have a > phone line, unreliable, traffic filter when they feel like and enforce > their stupid rules on you (ie they always have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-26 Thread Matthew East
Hi, On 24/10/2007, Rhys Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [previous post regarded TalkTalk] > Millions steer well clear in my opinion takes months longer to activate the > connection and especially if you have a netgear router. Also there are > multiple problems with dns servers which can be res

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-26 Thread Chris Rowson
> Unfortunatly they own 99% of the phone lines so *nobody* has a choice. > > I am looking forward to WIMAX to get away from them. > > -- > Matthew G Larsen Try living in the Kingston Communications area then mate. There, you really don't have a choice! One ISP who can charge whatever they like

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-26 Thread Matthew Larsen
> Well, I'm with BT so there! OK, the download speed is not sparkling at > 6.7Mb max, but that's more than enough for what I need. > > Billing's been a dream as well as reliability. Up until a fortnight ago, > I'd have said that the Indian call centre was a downer due to the way they > keep to sc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-25 Thread Ian Pascoe
ehalf Of Kirrus Sent: 24 October 2007 15:08 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP? - "Mark Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 23 October 2007 21:55:29 Jai Harrison wrote: > > Hey Guys, > > > > I figured this would be an in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-24 Thread Michael Holmes
I'm with Orange for ADSL (I don't live in a cable area) and they aren't that bad, fast speeds even on weekends. Used to be with Tiscali. Tiscali suck. They block all P2P traffic (including Bittorrent, good for getting LiveCDs of Ubuntus and other Linux Distrubutions or Unix like Operating Systems.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-24 Thread Kirrus
- "Mark Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 23 October 2007 21:55:29 Jai Harrison wrote: > > Hey Guys, > > > > I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. > > We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best > > Internet Service Provider in yo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-24 Thread Mark Fraser
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 21:55:29 Jai Harrison wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. > We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best > Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state > whether it is ADSL or ca

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-24 Thread Paul Tansom
** Rhys Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-23 22:46]: > Virgin is definitely the one for cable and ive never had any trouble with > pipex for adsl. Is anyone using sky as i will be moving to sky in my new > house apparently between 8 and 16mb. ** end quote [Rhys Morgan] I was after cable back i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-24 Thread Paul Tansom
** Matthew East <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-24 13:20]: > On 24/10/2007, Andrew Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am now unfortunately in an area not supported by Cable, and I am on an > > ADSL connection through Tiscali. > > I personally hate the service and would change if I had any better

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-24 Thread Rhys Morgan
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "British Ubuntu Talk" Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 13:14 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP? > On 24/10/2007, Andrew Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am now unfortunately in an area not supported by Cable, and I am on an >> ADSL c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?[Scanned]

2007-10-24 Thread Paul Brunt
Matthew Daubney wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: > >> Hi Jai. >> >> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 21:55 +0100, Jai Harrison wrote: >> >> >>> I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. >>> We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best >>> Internet Service Prov

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-24 Thread Mac
Jai Harrison wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. > We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best > Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state > whether it is ADSL or cable. > > Jai > I'm with Fasthos

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-24 Thread Matthew East
On 24/10/2007, Andrew Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am now unfortunately in an area not supported by Cable, and I am on an > ADSL connection through Tiscali. > I personally hate the service and would change if I had any better options. > Their technical support is absolute crap. Second thi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-24 Thread Mark Harrison
David Restall - System Administrator wrote: > I use Eclipse for home and business. Just > about to migrate to their ADSL + phone service so we'll see :-) Service > has been very reliable though the customer support stinks - it was OK > until they were bought out by Ki

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-24 Thread Philip Newborough
On 24/10/2007, Lucy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 23/10/2007, Jai Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Guys, > > > > I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. > > We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best > > Internet Service Provider in you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-24 Thread Keith Cleaver
Jai Harrison wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. > We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best > Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state > whether it is ADSL or cable. > > Jai > I'm with Virgin M

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-24 Thread Lucy
On 23/10/2007, Jai Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. > We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best > Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state > whether it is ADSL or cab

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-24 Thread Dave Morley
On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 09:23 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: > Unfortunately I'm stuck with the worse ISP in the country (Karoo) > Because I live in the Kingston Communications Network Area (so can't > get a BT line) there aren't any other ISPs providing service (mostly > because KC aggressively keep th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-24 Thread Chris Rowson
Unfortunately I'm stuck with the worse ISP in the country (Karoo) Because I live in the Kingston Communications Network Area (so can't get a BT line) there aren't any other ISPs providing service (mostly because KC aggressively keep them out). Ah well, at least I get to gripe about it at www.karoo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-24 Thread Dave Murphy
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 21:55 +0100, Jai Harrison wrote: > I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. > We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best > Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state > whether it is ADSL or cable. I've been

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-24 Thread Daniel Lamb
I personally would use zen, maybe a bit more expensive but good customer service. Daniel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Bagnall Sent: 23 October 2007 23:40 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP? Alan Pope wrote

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-24 Thread David Restall - System Administrator
Hi, > I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. > We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best > Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state > whether it is ADSL or cable. I use Eclipse for home and bus

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-23 Thread Andrew Barber
On 23/10/2007, John Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin Peeks wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Jai Harrison wrote: > >> Hey Guys, > >> > >> I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. > >> We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best > >> Internet Service P

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-23 Thread John Levin
Martin Peeks wrote: > Hi, > > Jai Harrison wrote: >> Hey Guys, >> >> I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. >> We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best >> Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state >> whether it is ADSL or c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-23 Thread Adam Bagnall
Alan Pope wrote: > Hi Jai. > > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 21:55 +0100, Jai Harrison wrote: > >> I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. >> We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best >> Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state >>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-23 Thread Matthew Daubney
Alan Pope wrote: > Hi Jai. > > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 21:55 +0100, Jai Harrison wrote: > >> I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. >> We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best >> Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state >>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-23 Thread Dave Walker
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 21:55 +0100, Jai Harrison wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. > We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best > Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state > whether it is ADSL or c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-23 Thread Martin Peeks
Hi, Jai Harrison wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. > We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best > Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state > whether it is ADSL or cable. > > Jai > ADSL24 has b

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-23 Thread STONE COLD
! unlimited calls to landlines 24/7! > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:45:38 +0100 > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP? > > Virgin is definitely the one for cable and ive never had any trouble with > pipex for adsl. Is anyon

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-23 Thread Rhys Morgan
Virgin is definitely the one for cable and ive never had any trouble with pipex for adsl. Is anyone using sky as i will be moving to sky in my new house apparently between 8 and 16mb. Rhys -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-23 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Jai. On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 21:55 +0100, Jai Harrison wrote: > I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. > We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best > Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state > whether it is ADSL or cable. >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-23 Thread Chris Oattes
Jai Harrison said the following on 23/10/07 21:55: > Hey Guys, > > I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. > We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best > Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state > whether it is ADSL or cable.

[ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-23 Thread Jai Harrison
Hey Guys, I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state whether it is ADSL or cable. Jai -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/