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Re: [LUG] OT: Switching to Eclipse

 

Neil Williams wrote:

>> Have you done much investigating about this switch to eclipse,
>> recently they have been getting loads of bad comments about
>> their service on adslguide and dslzoneuk.  I know several people
>> that used to recommend them all the time, and now all but 1 have
>> migrated away.

Been with them for, um, 7 years? They haven't seriously cocked up.

Since they got bought by Kingston (somebody who had a dire reputation 
even before), they have turned into another budget no-frills ISP with 
crap support and a limited product line. I've seen my account type 
become obsolete three times (although to be fair, they have not forced a 
change on me until I asked for it) and a great reputation sullied by 
cost and corner cutting.

The online status has gone from accurately updated within minutes of a 
fault, to hardly updated at all (there's two open tickets dating back 
months). It also needs logging in as an account holder to view now, 
which smells of "hiding the problems from the potential customer".

The peering seems pretty good though (I play online games so ping is an 
issue to me), throughput I'm hardly qualified to say, being at the end 
of a 512kbps piece of string, even flat out I won't be registering on 
their graphs. Connection issues have generally been BT's fault (radius 
servers or the pots line) and solved within an hour or two.

Overall? Yes, they're Okay and I'm reasonably happy - but like any ISP, 
they're all good until it breaks and you can't get hold of somebody to 
unbreak it.

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