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Re: [LUG] Remote Backups

 

On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Martin Gautier wrote:

On 07/09/11 19:49, Gordon Henderson wrote:
Make sure you get the absolute best out of it, if you've not already

e.g. Good filtered faceplate and make sure any internal witing is using pins 2 & 5 only off the faceplate. Get the router connected directly into the faceplate then run cat 5. etc. I'd even go as far as to re-locate the BT master socket to as close as practical to the BT dropwire coming in - which is a slight bit of naughtyness, but if it's done neatly BT won't notice...
Good advice. Already done though. :)

Excellent!

I have one of the BT ADSL faceplates (the ones with a phone socket and RJ11 - fitted by BT when they swapped out my ISDN) within inches of the "dropwire" (which actually arrives underground) connected to a Netgear DG834 with CAT5 to my IPCop.

Over time and a number of ISP buy-outs I've found myself on Talk-Talk Business ADSL who seem to throttle all traffic all day except emails from their marketing department telling me to buy their phone package too. I'm not convinced of their more favourable "business" contention ratio either - it all gets very slow at teatime.

If your on a BT ADSL2 exchange (ie. up to 8Mb and not up to 24Mb) then check your upload speed. If it's 440Kb/sec then your on nornmal priorities over the BTW network. If it's 830Kb/sec (or anything over 450!) then you're on the proper elevated priorities over the BTW network.

Sadly, some ISPs (e.g. eclipse) will sell you what they term a business grade connection, but they don't subsequently move you to the elevated services when using the BTW network - they give you bigger data caps, or less contention in their own networks...

If your line is unbundled, then who knows...

I'm moving when I get the brain cycles to spare looking into it. I'm favouring Xen currently. From experience; excellent customer service, no throttles, no limits.

Zen, not Xen :)

Things do change when you go for one of the niche providers - but you usually pay a little more. I resell Entanet so am a bit biased, but most of them are generally OK. I trade a fixed and well defined data cap (45GB/month 8am to 8pm) for a wooly set of T&Cs, etc. However, I pay £25+VAT a month for that on-top of my BT line...

Gordon
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