Recommendations for a business broadband supplier.

Looking for recommendations for a business broadband supplier, ADSL, not
hugely bothered about speeds over 8Mb download, upload speed and
reliability are more important as it will be used to provide a site to
site VPN link. Both lines are good and are running 8Mbps solid on an
outdated product with bags of SNR headroom. Budget is around 40 PCM per
line.

Is anyone reselling BT Infinity or similar?

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Clint Sharp

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:36:07 +0000, Clint Sharp wrote:

> Looking for recommendations for a business broadband supplier, ADSL, not
> hugely bothered about speeds over 8Mb download, upload speed and
> reliability are more important as it will be used to provide a site to
> site VPN link. Both lines are good and are running 8Mbps solid on an
> outdated product with bags of SNR headroom. Budget is around 40 PCM per
> line.
>
> Is anyone reselling BT Infinity or similar?

http://aa.nu



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Clint Sharp wrote:
> Looking for recommendations for a business broadband supplier, ADSL, not
> hugely bothered about speeds over 8Mb download, upload speed and
> reliability are more important as it will be used to provide a site to
> site VPN link. Both lines are good and are running 8Mbps solid on an
> outdated product with bags of SNR headroom. Budget is around 40 PCM per
> line.
>
> Is anyone reselling BT Infinity or similar?
>
I am not sure that any ISP that relies on BT backhaul is going to be
able to offer better reliability than BT gives to any of its customers.

ALL the broadband issues I have seen bar ONE were down to BT screwing up
its own circuits and the ISP was powerless to do anything about it.

You may pat more and get made promises; but at the sharp end if
Openreach screw up, it is wasted money. They move at their own pace.

"Clint Sharp" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:J+WSyJEHFB+(E-Mail Removed)...
> Looking for recommendations for a business broadband supplier, ADSL, not
> hugely bothered about speeds over 8Mb download, upload speed and
> reliability are more important as it will be used to provide a site to
> site VPN link. Both lines are good and are running 8Mbps solid on an
> outdated product with bags of SNR headroom. Budget is around 40 PCM per
> line.
>
> Is anyone reselling BT Infinity or similar?

Zen or Andrews & Arnold

You will need static IP addresses to get the VPN to work reliably, and both
of these suppliers will provide static IPs automatically.

Would be worth talking to both these suppliers about ethernet connectivity.
It is quite likely that the applications that you wish to run over the VPN
would benefit from a much faster upload speed, so if you can get 8Mbits/sec
symmetrically (or even 2 Mbits/sec) you should see better VPN performance.

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Graham J

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>"Clint Sharp" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:J+WSyJEHFB+(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Looking for recommendations for a business broadband supplier, ADSL, not
>> hugely bothered about speeds over 8Mb download, upload speed and
>> reliability are more important as it will be used to provide a site to
>> site VPN link. Both lines are good and are running 8Mbps solid on an
>> outdated product with bags of SNR headroom. Budget is around 40 PCM per
>> line.
>>
>> Is anyone reselling BT Infinity or similar?
>
>Zen or Andrews & Arnold
>
>You will need static IP addresses to get the VPN to work reliably, and both
>of these suppliers will provide static IPs automatically.
The VPN already exists, it just needs to be moved to another supplier
for reasons I can't go in to just yet.
>
>Would be worth talking to both these suppliers about ethernet connectivity.
Ethernet would have been the ideal, too expensive or at least was. End
to end it was around 3500 a year and a 7k install fee. I'll enquire
again but it's not changed a lot the past three times I've looked into
it.
>It is quite likely that the applications that you wish to run over the VPN
>would benefit from a much faster upload speed, so if you can get 8Mbits/sec
>symmetrically (or even 2 Mbits/sec) you should see better VPN performance.

It's running acceptably well on a 8M/800k line so essentially an 800K
(minus overhead of course) VPN. Of course, more bandwidth would be nice
but it's by no means essential.


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Clint Sharp