Recommended ISPs.
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BoomAM said:
As an Enta Net reseller myself they are a very good company to deal with. You will be given an enta net username and password along with an IP address from Enta's network. Thus meaning if UKFSN go bust you will still have your connection.
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Do not go to PlusNet
Eclipse seems good. But again, they have usage limits
Its near impossible to find a good ISP, they all have usage limits and/or static IPs.
Why is it so hard to find a £25/month ISP with webspace, 8Mb, Unlimited (or high usage cap) & reliable.
Tbh, if the only flaw with Nildram is the pings, then im gonna go with them, the only online game i play, and i do that rarely, is Mario Kart.
This is the offer i was originally gonna get with Nildram:
But i cant find any other ISP that comes well rated that can match that.
Its near impossible to find a good ISP, they all have usage limits and/or static IPs.
Why is it so hard to find a £25/month ISP with webspace, 8Mb, Unlimited (or high usage cap) & reliable.
Tbh, if the only flaw with Nildram is the pings, then im gonna go with them, the only online game i play, and i do that rarely, is Mario Kart.
This is the offer i was originally gonna get with Nildram:
But i cant find any other ISP that comes well rated that can match that.
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There are a few good ISPs out there, my employer provides no cap, very decent speed and a highly reliable core network. We provide all the home user connections for a national newspaper among other customers.
I can testify the support is excellent (they'll feel my wrath if not) but we only deal with businesses, preferably ones who want multiple connections.
I'd be wary of resellers (support takes longer and is less direct, most don't have access to whoosh/eco). LLU is good but my flatmates have just got BE to share and the support is rubbish. and they had an outage last night.
Good ISPs are few and far between!
I can testify the support is excellent (they'll feel my wrath if not) but we only deal with businesses, preferably ones who want multiple connections.
I'd be wary of resellers (support takes longer and is less direct, most don't have access to whoosh/eco). LLU is good but my flatmates have just got BE to share and the support is rubbish. and they had an outage last night.
Good ISPs are few and far between!
Because several times, ive gone to access that says my IP has been banned, asked the mods of the website about it, and they said that they just ban entire ranges rarther than individual IPs. Meaning that i had to disconnect/reconnect to re-access the the website again.tolien said:Why do you have to get a dynamic IP?
The security arguments are crap, and the privacy ones even more so.
If im on a static, i wouldnt be able to access a website at all.
Its happened on here before now.
Nildram says otherwise.
Their offer that i was gonna go for seemed perfect. High peak limit, no off peak limit (or a v.high off peak one).
I would go for UKFSN if they offered webspace.
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BoomAM said:
thats rubbish, if they did ban ranges then a new dynamic IP wouldn't solve the problem as it'd be from the same IP block! That makes no sense as a reason not get a static IP, if it gets blocked (which i find unlikely, it's never happened to me or anyone I know aside from mail servers occassionally making it on to blacklists.). There is no serious reason not to get a static IP, not at all, the only one you could use with any seriousness is security and thats very debatable.
Also, he right in what you're asking for is unfeasable, mainly because, as said here and elsewhere, consumer ISPs are having a price war and can't afford to invest in their networks because of it, therefore they have to cripple product offerings to justify such low prices and make them possible
I've never once had a problem whereby an IP address block or my IP address has been blocked by a website.
Most companies will give static IP based on MAC addresses anyway so its quite unlikley your IP address will change. When I was on telewest my IP changed twice over 12 months and that was due to me faffing around with routers.
Most companies will give static IP based on MAC addresses anyway so its quite unlikley your IP address will change. When I was on telewest my IP changed twice over 12 months and that was due to me faffing around with routers.
I've used Nildram for 3 years but this Friday i migrate to Zen. For the majority of the 3 years Nildram have been a great ISP but as of late the service has deteriorated. If you play World Of Warcraft then do not even consider Nildram, as for the past 3 months we've suffered constant disconnects during prime time. This doesn't seem to affect any other ISP so Telia claim it isn't their problem whilst Nildram refuse to admit responsibility saying it isn't a problem on their network. Ultimately this has been going on for 3 months with neither side budging and showing no signs of being resolved.
Earlier this week, in what was the final straw for me, we experienced high latency to all servers for all games. This occured both on the Telia network (which has now been fixed after 3 days) and more worryingly also on the Nildram network with Jolt servers also being unplayble.
Support in both these times has been abysmal with emails going unanswered for weeks and little feedback on the latency problems. With this in mind i've decided to go to Zen, Nildram just aren't the ISP they once were.
I do agree with you on one thing though, the 50GB Peak and unlimited off peak downloads simply cannot be matched by any other ISP at the moment. Furthermore any part of the 50GB you don't use, gets rolled over to the next month - another nice touch.
In the end it really comes down to this - if you're a gamer, especially WoW, do not choose Nildram. If heavy (>50GB a month) downloading is your thing then consider Nildram, but be aware not to expect too much in the Customer Service department.
Earlier this week, in what was the final straw for me, we experienced high latency to all servers for all games. This occured both on the Telia network (which has now been fixed after 3 days) and more worryingly also on the Nildram network with Jolt servers also being unplayble.
Support in both these times has been abysmal with emails going unanswered for weeks and little feedback on the latency problems. With this in mind i've decided to go to Zen, Nildram just aren't the ISP they once were.
I do agree with you on one thing though, the 50GB Peak and unlimited off peak downloads simply cannot be matched by any other ISP at the moment. Furthermore any part of the 50GB you don't use, gets rolled over to the next month - another nice touch.
In the end it really comes down to this - if you're a gamer, especially WoW, do not choose Nildram. If heavy (>50GB a month) downloading is your thing then consider Nildram, but be aware not to expect too much in the Customer Service department.
BoomAM said:
50GB/month at peak times is hardly "unlimited (or high usage cap)" on a connection that'll readily do ~2TB a month.
As for IP bans, it's precisely because the block's assignment is dynamic that makes it a necessity to ban it all. If it was static, you could add exceptions (or block specific IPs).
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tolien said:
Blocking it all is dodgy though, one of our /22s for DSL users is part of a larger /19 which includes some core infrastructure, wouldn't take much for a dumb webmaster to block the lot.
Most dynamic IPs are 'sticky' to some extent, it depends on the ISP and their configuration though.
Well regardless of wether you agree with me or not, it has happened in the past. On here as well.
I was told by the admin at the time that they were banning a certain IP range to prevent someone from accessing the forums, as a result, i could not access OCUK as my IP at the time was in that range. I disconnected my router, reconnected, it got a new IP, and OCUK was working again.
Wether you want to belive me or not is becides the point now.
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So basically, as long as i dont game, Nildram are fine?
Are the disconnects only in WoW or games? Or do you mean the actual line disconnects completely?
Im still waiting for Tiscali to email me my MAC code, even though ive asked for it twice, im still yet to recieve it.
So after complaining at Tiscali again tomorrow to get my MAC code again, i'll start yet another hunt around the web for a good ISP.
Im basically after:
Decent amount of monthly peak usage. Same with off peak.
8Mb ASDL Max.
Webspace
& POP3 email access.
No more than £25 a month.
The thing thats annoying is that i cant predict how much bandwidth im gonna be using. I average just under 20Gb a month at the moment, but thats because im on 512, and half the time i cant be bothered with large downloads. If im on ADSL Max (3Mb apparentely for my line), then theres obviously the temptation to download more bigger files than what i usually do.
I was told by the admin at the time that they were banning a certain IP range to prevent someone from accessing the forums, as a result, i could not access OCUK as my IP at the time was in that range. I disconnected my router, reconnected, it got a new IP, and OCUK was working again.
Wether you want to belive me or not is becides the point now.
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So basically, as long as i dont game, Nildram are fine?
Are the disconnects only in WoW or games? Or do you mean the actual line disconnects completely?
Im still waiting for Tiscali to email me my MAC code, even though ive asked for it twice, im still yet to recieve it.
So after complaining at Tiscali again tomorrow to get my MAC code again, i'll start yet another hunt around the web for a good ISP.
Im basically after:
Decent amount of monthly peak usage. Same with off peak.
8Mb ASDL Max.
Webspace
& POP3 email access.
No more than £25 a month.
The thing thats annoying is that i cant predict how much bandwidth im gonna be using. I average just under 20Gb a month at the moment, but thats because im on 512, and half the time i cant be bothered with large downloads. If im on ADSL Max (3Mb apparentely for my line), then theres obviously the temptation to download more bigger files than what i usually do.
Right.
Ive done some research and come up with these:
Bulldog seem good, but im not sure on contract length, and I'd have to move my BT phone line.
'Be' seem good, but aparentely i cant get them till December.
Eclipse also seem good, but aparently their recent LLU usage is a problem for migrations.
As you lot have pointed out, IDNet seems to be the best atm, but their lack of webspace and low usage limit is a big downer for me.
UKFSN look good tbh, im hearing good things about them tbh.
The 20Mb of webspace is a little low, but the SQL on it is v.handy.
The bandwidth usage on them is alright, but not ideal, but i would be willing to pay the extra few £ for the 60/330Gb option, which im confident would more than cover me, and im sure that after a few months of usage, i'll be able to gauge what my usage will be and adjust accordingly.
I cant find much on ADSL guide about them though. Thoughts?
Ive done some research and come up with these:
Bulldog seem good, but im not sure on contract length, and I'd have to move my BT phone line.
'Be' seem good, but aparentely i cant get them till December.
Eclipse also seem good, but aparently their recent LLU usage is a problem for migrations.
As you lot have pointed out, IDNet seems to be the best atm, but their lack of webspace and low usage limit is a big downer for me.
UKFSN look good tbh, im hearing good things about them tbh.
The 20Mb of webspace is a little low, but the SQL on it is v.handy.
The bandwidth usage on them is alright, but not ideal, but i would be willing to pay the extra few £ for the 60/330Gb option, which im confident would more than cover me, and im sure that after a few months of usage, i'll be able to gauge what my usage will be and adjust accordingly.
I cant find much on ADSL guide about them though. Thoughts?
The Eclipse Evolution 'Option4' looks the best from what ive found:
http://www.eclipse.net.uk/index.cfm?id=fixedcomparison_res
I'll carry on looking though...
Aparently ive got to wait 5 days for Tiscali to cough up my MAC code!
http://www.eclipse.net.uk/index.cfm?id=fixedcomparison_res
I'll carry on looking though...
Aparently ive got to wait 5 days for Tiscali to cough up my MAC code!
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My mates on Bulldog, still not sorted his e-mails yet months on, and now he says they all getting sold to someone else, he only signed up about 3 months ago to. 