Points noted Colin - I do agree with you on the scope of maintaining the facilities.
Regarding NTL however, I'm in the east end, and probably because there isnt such a large uptake of broadband, I regularly get my full 124KB speed from the 1meg link. Whereabouts in the city are you? Have you had your signal levels checked? 2) I agree here, although the text server that was implemented recently has been remarkably solid 3) All too true - you get better support from the newsgroups (when you can access them) than from anyone at ntl, although from what I've been told - there are a *select few* techies who know their stuff. Darren -----Original Message----- From: Colin McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 January 2003 12:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Scottish] Good ISP for ADSL business and hosting? ....not to mention the fact that any ISP worth their salt is going to put a lot of time and effort into ensuring that their facilities are available and secure - I wouldn't want to undertake that responsibility for the sake of shaving a few pounds of the running costs. Also remember that ADSL is not a "permanent" connection although most implementations of it function as if they were. Of course if you're ISP isn't up to the job you might be better off doing it yourself. > I think NTL hold the franchise for Glasgow City Centre Personally, I'm not very impressed with my domestic service from them: 1) low bandwidth - although I've only got 128k link, it frequesntly goes a LOT slower 2) News servers - massively overloaded. I've given up trying to news even with cron'ed leafnode 3) Support - ha ha ha! The phone works most of the time but I have had a couple of outages. I'm now on my third set-top box in a year and still get regular outages. Colin (who gets work Email through an EdNet server via SMTP - I don't want to go on and on but these guys are the dog's danglys) _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish 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
