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Well, the connection came back up yesterday morning. A total of 55h outage spread over 4 days. That was for a scheduled 10m downtime on Monday. UkFsn tells me that asking for a reduction in the bill is "unreasonable". Judging by the comments I've heard here, service from all providers is pretty much random, and tech support all poor. It is just pot luck. None of the providers seem interested in having happy customers. With little to distinguish between the services you are left with price. I'm paying around £25 /month for a landline I hardly use (except to call ISPs when the net is down!) and another £20 /month for my EntaNet account. To be fair, EntaNet did eventually start taking the matter seriously, and from Wednesday kept me informed of the progress. It seems that I can knock around 40% off my monthly bill by moving to Virgin cable (or fibre as they call it), and hopefully get a faster connection too. For back-up I am thinking of putting a mobile broadband dongle up in the roof space, where I hope I can get a better signal. I could control it from a spare gumstix, with power over ethernet. I can PXE boot the gumstix, and NFS mount the rootfs, to control the whole system from my server. I would prefer a fixed IP address, which Virgin won't do. But I can always use DynDNS, which would also cope with the occasional use of a mobile backup connection. What could possibly go wrong? Better would be connection sharing between neighbours. Has anyone tried this? D On Thursday 12 February 2009 22:11:08 Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Shaun Orchard wrote: > > In Cornwall it's even worse. > > > > The few exchanges that have been unbundled (the major towns as usual) are > > done by the rubbish pile them high outfits, like Tiscali/AOL/CPW, and a > > few by Sky/Easynet (the one of two LLU providers I'd actually consider > > moving to). I think Be (the other one) are in Saltash only. > > > > My own exchange doesn't have any LLU either. Fortunately my exchange does > > have a WBC date (which doesn't appear to be very many in Cornwall) in the > > very distant future (!) > > More than mines got! (Buckfastleigh) No target date, nothing. > > But I always wondered if BT just hate us for the Wi-Fi project we ran.. > > Gordon -- 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