SDSL or fast upload speeds on ADSL wanted

I have 1mb Pipex ADSL.
It's ok for downloads but I really need a way of uploading my backups
offsite via xDSL.

I was looking at SDSL but it's not that cheap at the moment.

Are there any services on xDSL that is cheap and will give me fast
uploads?

I had a look at Bulldog ADSL because they offer 400k upload speeds.
I would have joined them but I heard a lot of bad things about them so
held off.

Any other suggestions?

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 06:49:06 +0000, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>I had a look at Bulldog ADSL because they offer 400k upload speeds.
>I would have joined them but I heard a lot of bad things about them so
>held off.

the 400k is only available on unbundled Bulldog exchanges - are you on
one ? The bad things were mainly about datastream higher speed
products I think.

Other options - bond two ADSL lines ? Andrews & Arnold provide this
via a specialist hardware box, Nildram were looking into it too.

<TIC> any wireless providers around ?

Phil

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 16:56:58 +0000, Phil Thompson
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 06:49:06 +0000, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
>>I had a look at Bulldog ADSL because they offer 400k upload speeds.
>>I would have joined them but I heard a lot of bad things about them so
>>held off.
>
>the 400k is only available on unbundled Bulldog exchanges - are you on
>one ? The bad things were mainly about datastream higher speed
>products I think.
yep I'm on one of the 400k ones.

Are bulldog ok in general then?

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 00:58:52 +0000, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>Are bulldog ok in general then?

can't say personally, try
http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/postlist...&Board=bulldog
bearing in mind groups like this are usually full of moaners and
people with problems

they did have problems on some BT exchanges where they put a single 2M
datastream link in and fed 2M customers off it. Even 1 customer gets
less than 2M due to overheads so although technically within published
contention ratio the users weren't happy.

Phil

> >the 400k is only available on unbundled Bulldog exchanges - are you on
> >one ? The bad things were mainly about datastream higher speed
> >products I think.
> yep I'm on one of the 400k ones.
>
> Are bulldog ok in general then?

I use the 1MB 20 contention ratio service and it seems fine. I've just run
the speed test and it came in as 942/243Kbps 'actual speed'. I've had no
problems on the reliability front, either, except for an authentication
problem one day that was resolved quickly.

Don't know about CS as I haven't used them. I hope they're better than BT,
who insisted when I was getting autnetication errors recently that I'd need
a visit from an engineer!