Re: [Scottish] Broadband advice

2011-01-07 Thread Georgia Thomson
On 05/01/2011 23:03, Colin McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2011 01:48:38 pm Jason Irwin wrote: Looking at Virign Media just now, any good? On the whole yes - the infrastructure is **very** good - fibre to the wall of your house means you get the bandwidth they advertise, and on the

Re: [Scottish] Broadband advice

2011-01-07 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Friday 07 January 2011 03:14:48 pm Georgia Thomson wrote: On 05/01/2011 23:03, Colin McKinnon wrote: As for support? Well its a call centre in Asia somewhere who work from a set of about 4 scripts for diagnosing internet problems Virgin media have their issues, but their support is

Re: [Scottish] Broadband advice

2011-01-06 Thread Jason Irwin
Then it doesn't matter who, buy a business broadband package I hadn't really considered SLA's to be honest and I'm not sure the budget would stretch to a proper business account. (I had planned to grab some virtual images when I leave and work off-line if the worst happened). [0] Okay, I lied,

Re: [Scottish] Broadband advice

2011-01-05 Thread Jack Donaghy
I'm with O2 and so far I've had a great experience - very speedy, very stable and great customer service. Be are also worth a look - same network, owned by the same company, they just provide different packages. As far as I know opinions on Virgin Media are mixed - some love them, some hate

Re: [Scottish] Broadband advice

2011-01-05 Thread Paxton, Darren
Hi Jason I'm with Virgin Media at present in the Merseyside area. The main issue I see with them at present is the traffic optimisations they are currently employing. I'm on the 50meg package so I shouldn't have experienced any of this as yet, but this may change. As Jack said, some love them

Re: [Scottish] Broadband advice

2011-01-05 Thread Marco Fontani
I'll be telecommuting (which will be a new experience) and wondered if people had any advice on a decent ISP? At home, my ISP is demon (home office package) and I am quite happy with them. My partner telecommutes a couple days a week and we have no problems with the connection. Luckily we are

Re: [Scottish] Broadband advice

2011-01-05 Thread D. Rimron
On 05/01/2011 13:48, Jason Irwin wrote: I am not sure I trust them with what will be an essential connection. Then it doesn't matter who, buy a business broadband package.[0] SLA is what matters here, and I don't know any residential broadband provider that does an SLA as standard. Or, once

Re: [Scottish] Broadband advice

2011-01-05 Thread Thomas Greer
I'll second AA. Fantastic service, good pricing. Support is amazing, just jump on IRC and theres normally staff or other users to help :) PS: If you want to sign up I can do it for you drop me a line Thomas On 5 January 2011 14:02, Marco Fontani mfont...@cpan.org wrote: I'll be telecommuting

Re: [Scottish] Broadband advice

2011-01-05 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 01:48:38 pm Jason Irwin wrote: Looking at Virign Media just now, any good? On the whole yes - the infrastructure is **very** good - fibre to the wall of your house means you get the bandwidth they advertise, and on the whole service is very reliable. They were