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 home: - 8Mb Broadband Max from Web Tapestry [1], gives me solid downstream and a /27 block of IPs. I use this mainly for work, hosting (e-mail and personal web stuff) and for VPN connections. - 16Mb Max from Sky [2], gives me 16 meg downstream for bulk downloads, i.e. squid traffic, downloads, ISOs, etc. Both are pretty solid, no real problems. The Sky-supplied Netgear is friendly enough (cheat code admin/sky to get into the web interface), and I use a solid-as-brick-wall Zyxel P660-HW on my 8Mb line. I use SmoothWall on both lines for NATting my LAN: SmoothWall Express 3.0 on the 16Mb line, and SmoothWall Advanced Firewall 4.0 on the 8Mb line. -n [1] http://www.webtapestry.net/ - mention my name or username (neuro) to support when signing up, and I get a referral bonus. You can do the same for others once you've signed up too :) [2] http://www.sky.com/broadband/ - tenner a month for 16 meg ain't too bad on top of a regular sky tv subscription, and for me that speed is regularly attainable! good stuff! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
