Hi Darren,
Thanks for your help. I will look into Zen and BT, they can only be better
than what we currently have. At one point last year we were down for almost
an entire week. Last week in one day it was down for around six hours, then
when it did work there was a mad rush for everyone to download their email
then after about 5 minutes it failed again.
Thankfully all our physical sales, tech support, website and other key
aspects are not effected by this as the main server is in the US and certain
other staff are not based in Edinburgh. However we do need a reliable
connection - which as I am typing this it seems to be! However I suspect it
was the threat of trading standards which ultimately got the internet
provider to get things working. No doubt it will fail leter on today or
tomorrow. Finally, it should be noted the business centre staff where we are
based are excellent and the (lack of) reliability of the connection is not
their fault, also they are also currently looking into changing provider.
Kind regards,
Rod
Rod McCall.
Runtime Revolution Ltd <www.runrev.com>
91 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1DJ, UK
Tel: +44 131 718 4338 (from outside UK)
0870 747 1165 (from inside uk)
Fax: +44 (0)131 718 4334
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paxton, Darren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 1:39 PM
Subject: RE: [scottish] Internet connections
> freaky, rod, you're just across the road from me!!!!
>
> I think most adsl packages are working on asymmtetrical uploads/downloads,
> i.e. 512 down, 256 up, and on business packages this is probably on a 20:1
> ratio, although i'd heard that zen offered a better ratio but according to
> their website, it is in fact 20. This may be sufficiently fast to host on,
> however, you'd have to look at the service availability of BT, and from
what
> I recall, its hasnt been great of late.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rod McCall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 04 February 2002 13:21
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [scottish] Internet connections
>
>
> Hi,
>
> We currently use an expensive leased line service provided by a third
party
> in our office which has proven to be totally unreliable. While the
> connection improved markedly towards the end of last year it is slowly
> returning to its old ways again. Can anyone recommend a good leased line
> provider or alternatively a good ADSL business package? We require one
with
> a good up time, excellent customer service when things go wrong and above
> all a consistent upload and download rate. Our current provider is unable
to
> do any of these!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Rod
>
> Rod McCall.
>
> Runtime Revolution Ltd <www.runrev.com>
> 91 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1DJ, UK
> Tel: +44 131 718 4338 (from outside UK)
> 0870 747 1165 (from inside uk)
> Fax: +44 (0)131 718 4334
> "Power to the Developer!"
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aidan Skinner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 12:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [scottish] Internet connections
>
>
> > On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant wrote:
> >
> > > do you think would be fastest/most readily available, cable or ADSL ?
> Do
> >
> > NTL is apparently quite good for cable, however they're not rolling it
> > out anywhere else, so if you can't get it your SOL.
> >
> > I've got a Demon-provided ADSL line in my flat, which is working
> > really well after they fixed teh exchange.
> >
> > - Aidan
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