RE: FN-FORUM High speed, reliable Internet connection

date posted 7th January 2002 13:54

I'd cheerfully donate several major organs for access to broadband. But
thanks to the fact that I live in a small town, it's not likely any time
soon. No cable company is going to run a cable past my house because
they're only interested in large urban areas and BT appear to have hired
just one person to upgrade their exchanges, so slowly is it taking them.
At this rate they'll be trialing fibre optic connections implanted into
testicles by the time I get ADSL,

Hutch

-----Original Message-----
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[EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Norman Beresford
Sent: 07 January 2002 12:11
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Subject: RE: FN-FORUM High speed, reliable Internet connection

Hi all

We use, and resell, clara.net ADSL connections. Our personal experience
has
been wonderful, we've had two outages, both of which were big national
ones
affecting all ADSL connections. A couple of clients have had problems
with
their connections, which clara.net have been very good at chasing up.
The
problem is that a lot of problems are with BT Broadband (as opposed to
OpenWoe), who take an age to sort things out.

One of our neigbouring business used to have an Easynet ADSL connection,
which they had a lot of trouble with (four days without a connection,
promised callbacks never happening etc etc). They've now cancelled it
(although for some reason Easynet haven't actually disconnected the
service
yet), and are piggy backing off our connection (something worth
considering,
we presently have four businesses using our ADSL connection, which helps
keep the cost minimal).

Regarding ISDN and ADSL -
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/22702.html

ruth - as far as running two phone lines vs ISDN it all comes down to
how
much time you spend online. We've a couple of clients who've saved a
fair
chunk by ditching their ISDN in favour of ADSL, but they were online
pretty
much constantly during the working day. I can get a ballpark figure for
you
if you want.

HTH

Norman


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