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If you are suffering from this, please switch to a proper ISP such as Andrews and Arnold or newnet plc. Cheap ubiquitous internet connections in the UK are alw
by meaty 14y ago
If you are suffering from this, please switch to a proper ISP such as Andrews and Arnold or newnet plc.
Cheap ubiquitous internet connections in the UK are always broken in some way.
- tarkin2 14y agoI'm chomping at the bit to change ISPs, but won't these also be affected?
- meaty 14y agoFor the moment, no. At least Andrews&Arnold have a policy though: http://aaisp.com/news-censorship.html http://aaisp.com/news-censorship.html
- jiggy2011 14y agoIIRC these sites are blocked because of a court order, the ISP has no say and has to comply. Looked at the prices for Andrews and Arnold £25 per month with a download cap of 25GB. I would use that up in under a week.
- meaty 14y agoActually not strictly true. Only the larger named ISPs (larger market share) have to comply. The smaller ISPs do not. +£10 for 100Gb. +£20 for 200Gb. Not particularly expensive and considering it's a proper line, not some screwed up censored telescreen pipe, I'm not fussed.
- jiggy2011 14y agoThey seem to price much higher for daytime use , which is when I would mainly use it (I work from home). 200GB of offpeak and daytime per month would be £332.00. Besides, if everyone just switched to a "proper" ISP then they would be forced into compliance, the same as everyone else.
- meaty 14y agoIf you pick the home::1 contract, it's not tied to any time of the day. "No units or time periods - usage is any time of day or night." I work from home a lot too and have a wife and three children on the end of the line as well. If everyone switched to much smaller ISPs and they were numerous, it would be hard to police.
- jiggy2011 14y agoI can't seem to get more than 50GB per month with that (according to logs I shift 10x that). Problem is that people will just go with whichever ISP is most popular and their friends are using or the cheapest. People won't generally sit and research all of their options.
- meaty 14y agoYou top up during the month.
- antihero 14y agoYeah they'd cost me like £200 a month for what I use. Not going to happen. They do look neat though.
- regularfry 14y agoA&A are fantastic. I've recommended them to quite a few people now.