I'm half looking for a second ADSL provider to use as backup for my
ukfsn one. Back in my ISDN days I used to be with Fast24 Internet who
seemed to provide a reasonable service then.

Does anyone know how good their ADSL is?

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Chris Green

<usenet@isbd.co.uk> wrote in message news:dr7m6g$ppm$1@slavica.ukpost.com...
I'm half looking for a second ADSL provider to use as backup for my
ukfsn one. Back in my ISDN days I used to be with Fast24 Internet who
seemed to provide a reasonable service then.

Does anyone know how good their ADSL is?

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Chris Green

Why do you want to have a second ADSL provider? Nearly all problems you'll
experience will be with the local exhange going tits up - which no matter
how many ADSL providers you have, will be of no help to you.

Does your current ADSL provider have a back up dialup account?

**SS**

"SecretSquiddle" <SecretSquiddle@remove.googlemail.com> wrote in
news:43d7a2bc$0$23284$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk:

Very bad (leaving shortly!)

Still £37.49pm for 2Mbit, News off since the beginning of the month,
regular failures of email and broadband services, and very poor support.

Used to be one of the best, now can't wait to get rid!

NewsWD <news@news.com> wrote:
So that's a 'no' then! :-)

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Chris Green

<usenet@isbd.co.uk> wrote in message news:dr8k4j$4ac$2@slavica.ukpost.com...
NewsWD <news@news.com> wrote:
So that's a 'no' then! :-)

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Chris Green

Give www.zen.co.uk a try. Very reliable, no fuss over usage - and 1 month
contracts, so if you don't like it you can leave.

No the cheapest out there, but you do get a quality service.

**SS**

SecretSquiddle <SecretSquiddle@remove.googlemail.com> wrote:

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Chris Green

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:38:59 +0000 (UTC), usenet@isbd.co.uk wrote:

I must be missing something here.....

You want to have ADSL service with two ISPs down one telephone line?

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Tony

Tony <look@reply-to.stuff> wrote:
the exchange as one will allow only 1Mb/s and the other 2Mb/s.

I used to have an ordinary POTS line and an ISDN line with the ISDN
being used for internet, however we now have ADSL available (since
about May last year) and I have changed the ISDN line back to a POTS
line. The ex-ISDN line is a business line.

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Chris Green

Tony wrote:

You are...

Never stated. Blindingly obvious that it needs another line, which
no doubt Chris, and many others, have. Not everyone considers that
a backup is not just useful, but can be essential (helps also where
there are suspicions about routing issues, or to test hardware with
minimal disruption to day-to-day use of the net). Also handy if you
want one connection with fixed IP and another with dynamic IP (eg a
researcher not wanting to be so easily identified when visiting the
same site several times a month). Peter M.

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:02:14 +0000, Peter M <us-mail@rocketmail.com>
wrote:

You know that, I know that, and it turns out now that the OP does too.
The original message looked (wrongly) as if the OP didn't have a clue,
which we now know that he does.


What a waste of bandwidth!

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Tony

Tony <look@reply-to.stuff> wrote:

admittedly).

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Chris Green

Tony wrote:

That's one opinion. I took it to mean someone wanting a second ISP on
a second phone line. If it later became clear that the intention was
to use the same line, then the person making the request would quite
quickly be given appropriate advice about it being impossible for an
end-user (as against an ISP) to have that facility.

The people who are less informed might be expected to start with
"I'd like to add a second ADSL service on the same phone line"

(apologies if that matches the exact wording of such a post a few
months ago - it isn't intended to claim that poster 'has no clue')

I don't know how long you've been reading posts in this group, Tony,
but these questions do come up from time to time (how to use 2 ISPs
on 2 separate lines), and get straight answers, too. Peter Morgan

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:42:40 +0000, Peter M <us-mail@rocketmail.com>
wrote:

Nothing that I have written called for you to be so patronising.

I started off by asking whether the OP wanted two services on one
line, and it was you who seem to have decided that the question was
out of order.

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Tony

usenet@isbd.co.uk wrote:

Perhaps Tony had not seen other posts you have made re VoIP, etc, etc.
I felt sure anyone using ukfsn would know what they were doing and
asking about another ISP would mean on a second line by default!