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On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Mark Evans wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/02/12 08:56, Gordon Henderson wrote:On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Simon Waters wrote:Noted they are looking for volunteer trustees.Hm. Didn't realise they were a charity... They certianly seemed to charge enough for Internet connectivity the last time I looked at themI've just recently found out is that they have been invoicing for "optional services" in August. Without actually saying what is optional this year beforehand. Effectivly a form of "cramming". I'm also having issues with their firewall changing. In that they don't appear to understand something along the lines of "You previously did X with IP networks A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H & I could you do exactly the same with IP network J?" They quote "5 working days". (Which is actually closer to "at least 10 days" since they typically sit on the change request for 2-3 days.) But in this case they came back after nearly 3 weeks with a query which would have been obvious or better made at least 2 weeks ago. These people are ment to be a specialist school ISP!
Ah yes. We had a 2Mb connection from them for the local (gov. funded) broadband project I was involved with - 10 years ago. I actually had to run a separate ISDN connection to Demon so I could do anything proper - like DNS, email, ssh and so on. I basically proxied all our web traffic and sent it their way but did everything else down the ISDN/PPP link.
They were doing (at the time) 2Mb to primaries and 8Mb to secondaries. But they were just a front for RM and BT. Everything was locked down as tight as a tight thing.
We managed to get the local primary school bumped up their list with a little help from people we knew (like the DIY SOS team, etc.) so it was all well and good...
(not that charities aren't supposed to charge money, but it seemed excessive) - however that was via RM and BT - each taking their cut, I guess.They are also only offering a couple of primary schools in East Devon 2M connections. When BT themselves can supply higher speed ADSL connections to both sites and another ISP appears capable of supplying fibre to the premises several orders of magnitude cheaper than the the numbers DCC were mentioning.
Still 2Mb? Shocking, really. Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq