Hi,
I get my broadband from IDNet.net. They are BT delivered and are a fantastic ISP. I'm on their home Supermax tariff which gives me 832k upload and traffic priority at the exchange for £35 a month. I have a 60GB monthly limit but for double the price you can get their business service which has no limits at all.
IDNet promise no port blocking or throttling and no contention within their network (once BT hands off the data to them). They now offer ADSL 2+ which will give you higher up speeds and if you speak to Simon there will offer you bonded ADSL (customised routers bonding multiple lines together for that big pipe experience)
Cheers,
Paul.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Imran Chaudhry <ichaudhry@???>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:59:58
To: <hampshire@???>
Subject: [Hampshire] Recommendations for LLU Broadband Provider with Fast
Upload
Hey All,
We're moving office premises soon and the local exchange [1] supports
a number of broadband providers that are LLU enabled, so this gives us
some providers that do not use BT's network.
We're after a reliable fast upload provider that won't break the bank,
thus proper full SDSL is out. The idea is to help improve performance
for home workers on VPNs with VOIP phones etc and also for remote
offsite backup and the occasional large upload (isos etc).
We've evaluated an "Annex (M)" pseudo-SDSL package which offer a
guaranteed upload/download rate but the performance has been poor over
the regular BT phone line.
Some ideas put forward are Virgin Cable Broadband, which offers something like
Download - 31.87Mb/s Upload - 1.44Mb/s (Mb = Megabit) (source: speedtest.net)
Another idea was ADSL bonding but nearly everyone I talked to had
negative comments about its reliability. Yet another idea was to find
a provider that has "reverse ADSL", with the up and download speeds
reversed.
Any suggestions? Thanks!
The exchange is due for upgrade to 21CN [2] soon which I understand
increases the upload speed "for free". Has anyone had their exchange
move to 21CN and noticed improvements? One respected ISP has stated
some negative things about 21CN [3].
[1] http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/STLOCKH
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_21CN and
[3] http://aaisp.blogspot.com/2009/09/info-bt-single-box-design-still.html
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