In a dilemma : Which one of them!

which 1mb service provider do i choose from the following
services i am looking for are speed, reliability, email, newsgroup access
and preferabbly a no tie in monthly contract., i am trying to make a
decision , the following isps are the ones i have in mind.

Pipex
Plus Net
Easy Net
Bulldog dsl
AAISP
Prodigy

Any input welcome

TIA

Regards
Chris H

In article <bmmseg$o7mkl$(E-Mail Removed)>, Chris H
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>which 1mb service provider do i choose from the following
>services i am looking for are speed, reliability, email, newsgroup access
>and preferabbly a no tie in monthly contract., i am trying to make a
>decision , the following isps are the ones i have in mind.
>
>Pipex
>Plus Net
>Easy Net
>Bulldog dsl
>AAISP
>Prodigy
>
>Any input welcome

Speed - there's not much between them all. You're going to get somewhere
around 450 k per second.

Email and newsgroups - well, they should all provide that.

Tie-in's - that should be easy to find out from their web sites.

Reliability is probably the main issue.

I'm with AAISP. They've proved very reliable for connectivity but that
is all I use them for - I have my own email, web, dns and news servers.
I use them because I needed 16 IP addresses (may soon need to increase
that - free of charge) and I wanted an ISP that was fairly clued up. I
also liked the fact that they properly route your IP block (giving you
an extra address on a different netblock for the WAN port of the router)
rather than using the same IP address on both ports. This means that
when I do upgrade to more IP addresses I can get them to add the new
ones on whilst still continuing with the old ones at the same time.
--
David Mahon
Due to the recent virus attacks, please email any
replies to newsreply_01 AT amigo.co.uk

450k a second !!! Are you sure about that ??

"David Mahon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:V+1WllA71vj$(E-Mail Removed)...
> In article <bmmseg$o7mkl$(E-Mail Removed)>, Chris H
> <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
> >which 1mb service provider do i choose from the following
> >services i am looking for are speed, reliability, email, newsgroup access
> >and preferabbly a no tie in monthly contract., i am trying to make a
> >decision , the following isps are the ones i have in mind.
> >
> >Pipex
> >Plus Net
> >Easy Net
> >Bulldog dsl
> >AAISP
> >Prodigy
> >
> >Any input welcome
>
> Speed - there's not much between them all. You're going to get somewhere
> around 450 k per second.
>
> Email and newsgroups - well, they should all provide that.
>
> Tie-in's - that should be easy to find out from their web sites.
>
> Reliability is probably the main issue.
>
> I'm with AAISP. They've proved very reliable for connectivity but that
> is all I use them for - I have my own email, web, dns and news servers.
> I use them because I needed 16 IP addresses (may soon need to increase
> that - free of charge) and I wanted an ISP that was fairly clued up. I
> also liked the fact that they properly route your IP block (giving you
> an extra address on a different netblock for the WAN port of the router)
> rather than using the same IP address on both ports. This means that
> when I do upgrade to more IP addresses I can get them to add the new
> ones on whilst still continuing with the old ones at the same time.
> --
> David Mahon
> Due to the recent virus attacks, please email any
> replies to newsreply_01 AT amigo.co.uk

Chris H wrote:

> which 1mb service provider do i choose from the following
> services i am looking for are speed, reliability, email, newsgroup access
> and preferabbly a no tie in monthly contract., i am trying to make a
> decision , the following isps are the ones i have in mind.
>
> Pipex
> Plus Net
> Easy Net
> Bulldog dsl
> AAISP
> Prodigy
>

I'd vote for Plus Net. Been with them a year and have only had
a couple of outages that affected me for a few hours (I work a lot at home). Download
speeds consistently around 50-55 KB/s, depending on site...

They also have the usual offerings of unlimited email accounts, news, webspace etc
etc and also have a nice fax-2-email service. With a fixed IP I pay GBP 21.99.
Monthly contract by DD.

BTW, I don't work for them... :-)

Dave

> I'd vote for Plus Net. Been with them a year and have only had
> a couple of outages that affected me for a few hours (I work a lot at
home). Download
> speeds consistently around 50-55 KB/s, depending on site...
>
> They also have the usual offerings of unlimited email accounts, news,
webspace etc
> etc and also have a nice fax-2-email service. With a fixed IP I pay GBP
21.99.
> Monthly contract by DD.

GBP 21.99. for a 1mb connection?
wow

In article <bmokn4$gva$(E-Mail Removed)>, baz <(E-Mail Removed)>
writes

>450k a second !!! Are you sure about that ??

Well, nearer 460 really but 450 is a nice even number to work on -
that's on ADSL 500.

I get about 920 because I have the home 1000 service (and I see that is
what you are after so you would get the same).

That's kilobits per second (not kilobytes). Download only (upload is
slower).

--
David Mahon
Due to the recent virus attacks, please email any
replies to newsreply_01 AT amigo.co.uk

AAISP has my vote - we have around 30 AA accounts in the offices on our
group and no problems.

"Chris H" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:bmmseg$o7mkl$(E-Mail Removed)...
> which 1mb service provider do i choose from the following
> services i am looking for are speed, reliability, email, newsgroup access
> and preferabbly a no tie in monthly contract., i am trying to make a
> decision , the following isps are the ones i have in mind.
>
> Pipex
> Plus Net
> Easy Net
> Bulldog dsl
> AAISP
> Prodigy
>
> Any input welcome
>
> TIA
>
> Regards
> Chris H
>
>

"Chris H" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:bmooge$p0mcq$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I'd vote for Plus Net. Been with them a year and have only had
> > a couple of outages that affected me for a few hours (I work a lot at
> home). Download
> > speeds consistently around 50-55 KB/s, depending on site...
> >
> > They also have the usual offerings of unlimited email accounts, news,
> webspace etc
> > etc and also have a nice fax-2-email service. With a fixed IP I pay GBP
> 21.99.
> > Monthly contract by DD.
>
> GBP 21.99. for a 1mb connection?
> wow
>
I think he's talking about the standard 512k a/c...

Archeon