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Re: [LUG] re ISP's - FYI

 

On Friday 12 October 2007 08:32, Rob Beard wrote:
> Viv wrote:
> > I have previously seen discussions about different ISP's. I thought I
> > would tell you about my recent experience  in case any of you were
> > thinking of changing.
> >
> > I have just changed ISP from Zen Internet (good but, a bit expensive) to
> > NewNet (who I hope will be equally good but, less expensive).
> >
> > A week ago, I changed someone else in my village over to NewNet (he had
> > been with Orange and wanted to escape). The whole changeover process has
> > been remarkably straightforward for both myself and him.
> >
> > In fact, I was quite disappointed. I got up early especially, as I
> > expected to have to mess about with PC and router settings to get
> > everything working again. Instead, I opened firefox and just got a
> > message from my modem / router asking for the new user name and
> > password. Once I had put that in, all was working again (even my Vonage
> > phone system that has it's own separate router). I may as well have some
> > breakfast instead.
> >
> > Cost wise, I was paying Zen £24.99 per month for up to 8mb connection
> > and 20 gb monthly download limit. I am paying NewNet £19.99 per month
> > for up to 8mb connection and 25 gb monthly download limit. The only
> > point to note is that to get that price with NewNet, I had to pay my
> > fees for the year (potentially, a bit risky with a new ISP that I had no
> > experience of but, they have had very good reviews over a long period).
> >
> > If I have any problems, I'll let you know but, so far, so good.
> >
> > See comments on forum at link below, many NewNet customers use Linux.
> >
> > http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=newnet&Number=313
> >9043&page=0&view=expanded&sb=5&o=0
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Viv
>
> That sounds good.  Limits are a bit slow for my needs though, I think
> I'll stick with Enta at the moment as I'm happy with them (£30 a month
> for 45GB peak/300GB off peak for when I have those mad distro
ooooh have we found a secret Vista user!
Tom te tom te tom
> downloading sessions).
>
> Rob


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