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On Friday 13 February 2009, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > Quoting Dave Berkeley <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > 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? > > Hi David, > > I've been following this thread with interest as I'm about to change > my service provider as well. > > I've been looking at DST (http://www.directsavetelecom.co.uk/) who > provide 8M Broadband with a 20G monthly limit between 6pm and midnight > and unlimited d/l outside these hours as well as all 01,02 and 03 > calls for £19.52pcm as well as a 4 port router (don't know which > make/model and it sounds like you wouldn't need one anyway) and there > is the option for a free static IP. (more info at > http://tinyurl.com/atv7cj ). > > As far as sharing a neighbours connection is concerned, it's certainly > do-able (although I've never done it), just check out the multiple > routing part of the Linux Advanced Routing Howto ( > http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html ) you would > simply set your connection to Provider1 and your neighbour's to > Provider2. > > Hope this is of some help, > > Matt. > > -- > Matthew Macdonald-Wallace > matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/ Hi Matt, Ive been on that deal from DST for a couple of years now. It's certainly cheap but not the greatest of services. I'm about a mile from the exchange in Brixham and the best I usually get is less than 2 Mb. At times it is pretty dire, say from 4 to 6 pm when everyone comes home and logs on, often less than 100Kb. There again, my wife spends hours on the phone, mostly long distance due to 4 scattered kids, northern family and a wandering life and the unlimited calls included are a good deal and broadband isn't mission critical to me. I was going to try TalkTalk who have an LLU setup in Brixham but they don't include calls to Jersey where we have a daughter. George -- 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