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Hi All I've got a broadband account with UKFSN. They are retailers for EntaNet. EntaNet notified me that they would be upgrading to 21CN last Monday and that this would mean a downtime of 10 minutes. The connection went down for around 30 hours. You can't phone UkFSN and EntaNet's technical support was poor. They said it was a problem with BT at the exchange, which may well be true. Today my connection went dead again. Can't get through to UkFSN. EntaNet contacted BT who said that I had been online today (this morning; I had) and the problem was resolved. It was only when I phoned again (this time using their wholesale broadband freephone line 0800 804 8041 - they put you through) that they realised that it was a second fault that I talking about. Still no connection. Has anyone experienced similar problems? Can anyone recommend a better provider? Virgin Media say they can provide me with a fibre connection. Has anyone any experience of this? I would really like to ditch those incompetent wasters at BT. Incidentally, I had lots of fun setting up an Acer Aspire One netbook as a mobile gateway, forwarding my server traffic through it, and using it as a gateway for the home network. In the process I found that the last Ubuntu kernel upgrade has broken the eth0 driver. I also had to route round my ISP's SMPT so I could send email. So I have a nest of routing modifications, DNS resolver mods, NAT etc. Thanks D -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html