Tam, Your area is covered by NTL :- http://business.ntl.com/en/broadband/index.jhtml
Stephen. Quoting Tam McLaughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks, > I just checked online at blueyonder if cable modem was available at our post > code but it looks like it's just ADSL (Glasgow city centre). > Our company has a limited lifetime before "policy administration" is taken > over by a third party and the IT department will probably be made redundant > > before that, so I have to make things as simple as possible. Although we run > > an internal SMTP mail server, with force9, we can switch to pop3 accounts > if required without too much trouble. I guess we don't really need a 2 Mb/s > > line but will save thousands a year by moving from the leased line so the > difference in price between a 512k, 1M and 2M line becomes insignificant. > > On Friday 31 January 2003 9:54 am, Paxton, Darren wrote: > > Tam > > > > Have you checked if an business cable modem service is available in your > > area? I'm not sure if you'd want to go down this route, but you could > > always look at hosting all your services yourself, this would allow you > > full control over your website and also SMTP management. However the > > downside to this would obviously be that your website would be limited in > > bandwidth by whatever upload speed is determined by your connection. > > (Currently I'm on the 1meg residential cable modem service, therefore > I've > > only got 256k Upload - not sure about other services - also, I use the > > NO-IP+ to manage DNS for my connection, from what I gather, business > > connections give you static addresses so it may be an option). > > > > Like i said, not sure if its your cup of tea, but worth pointing out a > > possible alternative. > > > > Darren > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tam Mclaughlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 30 January 2003 19:59 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [Scottish] Good ISP for ADSL business and hosting? > > > > > > Sorry, what I meant to say was that although a particular ISP may be good > > for > > a home user, they may not necessarily offer a good service for a business > > environment e.g. I have ISDN at home and connect less than 20 hours per > > week > > > > but moving my work to plus net's ADSL 2 Mb/s line 8 hours/day may be a > > different story. > > > > I suspect that the ADSL service will be good but I am just looking for > > other > > > > opinions before I make the commitment and from what you have said, plus > net > > sounds positive. > > > > > > This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally > privileged. > > If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, > > you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and > > you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any > > information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery > > by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. > > Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is regulated by the Financial > > Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards > > Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford > > House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Scottish mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish > > -- > -------------------------------------------- > Tam McLaughlin > IT Systems Administrator > Scottish Legal Life Assurance Society Ltd > > > _______________________________________________ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
