"Business" ADSL

VeNT

VeNT

VeNT

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just had a letter from Pipex trying to sell me some business ADSL, I've been thinking of getting a better connection (contention etc) who would you guys use?
we're talking anything upto approx £50 a month currently.
we're doing lots of uploading/downloading so 25GB+ limits.
good uptime is essential.

samknows says we can get

BT Wholesale ADSL
BT Wholesale ADSL Max
AOL LLU
TalkTalk (CPW) LLU
Sky Broadband / Easynet LLU
Orange LLU (Formerly Wanadoo)
 
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If you're forced to stay with a "BT Reseller" then to be honest there isn't a great deal between suppliers.
Once you move to a Business Class connection you will usually get a static IP address (if you weren't on one before), a slightly increased upload speed (so I'm told) and a contention of 30:1 as opposed to 50:1 for standard ADSL.

I recently regraded my old Nildram account - I was paying nearly £26 per month, I'm now on their business connection for £20 per month and getting slightly better speeds at peak times and a static address.

If you've got the option of using LLU's they are certainly your best bet.
 
I've been looking an the entanet resellers, ADSL24 (as I've used them for a home package) etc, not thought of nildram. says DNS is extra (wtf?) but was guessing thats for hosting your own site rather than using their servers for DNS?

anyone used fast.co.uk? they have a few good reviews?
 
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VeNT said:
I've been looking an the entanet resellers, ADSL24 (as I've used them for a home package) etc, not thought of nildram. says DNS is extra (wtf?) but was guessing thats for hosting your own site rather than using their servers for DNS?

anyone used fast.co.uk? they have a few good reviews?
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I'm with ADSL24 they are amazing, fantastic support, even better speeds

Stelly
 
Since the takeover, Nildram and Pipex have been getting more similar, and Tiscali owns Pipex, so you can see where that's going to go.

stoofa said:
a slightly increased upload speed (so I'm told)
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The difference between Max and Max Premium is an upstream of up to 832kbps instead of 448kbps.

and a contention of 30:1 as opposed to 50:1 for standard ADSL.
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Contention ratios disappeared from ADSL years ago - Max Premium gets priority over ordinary Max, but you're unlikely to ever see anything like 1/30 the headline speed...
 
VeNT said:
so tollen, ADSL24/entanet or Fast.co.uk?
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fast.co.uk are Enta resellers too IIRC.

If you're doing 25GB/month, what about Zen/Idnet?
You won't get the extra upstream, but you're not lumped in with the heavy users like with Enta...
 
Zen (www.zen.co.uk) have a number of home office / small business packages, they have uk based customer support and just excellent performance overall. I used them for about 2 years and would recommend them to anyone who needs reliable broadband and actual customer support. I moved away from them to BE in the end because their "consumer" product is just faster and cheaper.
 
quick question
how easy/hard is it to use two ADSL connections at the same time?
we've two phone lines here and where wondering if it was possable/pointless to have two ADSL connections. either having one as a backup or just for the extra bandwidth?
 
To fail over is pretty easy (manually at least, automagically is about as easy as load balancing), load balancing is a little more difficult (and whether you gain anything depends on what you do with the connections), bonding really needs ISP support. Depends on the hardware you've got too.

Trifid said:
Fast do not sell the Enta network. Think it may be Netservices?
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They used to be NS resellers, but I could've sworn they'd changed.
 
hardware is no-exitant atm, and we're only a small office. tempted to use one for VoIP traffic only then leave the other for everything else?
 
I got one of those stupid letters too :D You have Easynet available at your exchange, so I'd personally recommend UK Online. They have a much better network than Enta these days, and good UK support available. You get virtually unlimited bandwidth (I pull up to 500 GB a month, never mind 25 lol) and no throttling or caps. Enta's centrals have a tendency to slow down quite a bit, whereas with UK Online I get full speeds 24/7 :)
 
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