I have been with demon for over 12 years and all-in-all from the
technical point of view they have been more than adequate. However my
recent treatment that the hands of the their un-support line and the
debt collection agency they hired to hound me has finally forced me to
make the jump. I am trying to be "in dispute" with them but they totally
ignore me! I cannot do business with Demon.

I have for known for years I have been paying top-rate, and am still
willing to pay the same sort of rate or more, as long as I get the
service. What I have been getting is utterly unacceptable. I have to
find a new ISP.

Having had the same email address etc for over 12 years it is a major
disruption to change things. So I have purchased my own domain name
which I intend to use from now on. I now need an ISP that is willing to
configure its mail servers to accept mail from my domain and serve web
pages from my domain.

Going around the ISP comparison sites on the WWW was not too helpful.
They seem to waste lost of space on things that are not real or that do
not matter to me. Issues that concern me are:-
static IP address
2-8Mb bandwidth is fine
use my own domain name for web serving and email purposes.
competent customer and billing support that answer the phone
competent technical support that answer the phone
reasonable quality skype service
access to a usenet news server
email spam filtering service
100 meg of disk space is fine

I am looking for advise or suggestions for a new ISP.

Thanks in advance Fergus.

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 07:11:53 UTC, fergus@twig.demon.co.uk (Fergus
McMenemie) wrote:

http://aa.nu

Don't be put off by the apparent low download limits. They *are* only
for download, and apply only during office hours Mon-Fri.

OK. Or they'll let you run your own mail server.

As many of these as you wish - no extra charge.

See abive, and also the various options (I take it that you really mean
'data transfer limits'). Actual bandwidth is up to 8Mb/s as usual.

Yes.

Very much so.

Very much so.

They don't provide Skype, but they filter and proxy NOTHING so you can
do what you want.

Yes.

Yes.

I take it you mean web space. 1GB per domain as standard.

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Fergus McMenemie wrote:

Virgin Media are equally hopeless.


I'd suggest Idnet but you'll have to pay around 20p a month to get a usenet
feed from Astranews. Idnet don't have a new server and frankly I wouldn't
recommend you put it on your wish list, many offered by ISPs are second rate
anyway and it's largely an irrelevance now IMHO.

Graham

"Bob Eager" <rde42@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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That link gets me nothing.

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On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 07:55:36 UTC, "David" <david.park@tesco.net> wrote:

You mean a 404, or what? Works for me from several different networks,
and always has done (well, the last 5 years...). Your ISP may be
filtering such a short URL.

OK, try:

http://sod.ms

or

http://aaisp.net.uk

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On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:55:36 GMT, David wrote:

Works for me.

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Thanks Rodney, can you give me name of the ISP and I will use Google.

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Fergus McMenemie <fergus@twig.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Entanet is pretty solid and reliable. My preferred reseller is
UKFSN (www.ukfsn.org).

You get 24x7 support on a real phone number (with competent people
answering the phone). Static IP. I run my own mail server, but don't need
to do so should I decide otherwise. Own domain(s). UKFSN will happily
handle MX for your domain should you so require. There's no port blocking
or shaping - Entanet monitors its available bandwidth and divides it by
the number of connected users to obtain a "share per user". During the
day/evening I typically get my 6-7 Mbs, and at worst it only drops to
2 Mbps around 10pm-midnight.

The only things on your list that I'm not sure about are the spam
filtering and web space allowance.

Chris

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 07:11:53 +0000, Fergus McMenemie wrote:
I did the same a couple of years ago. From being one of their original
200 customers. It is a bit of a hassle changing email address, but no
worse than telling people when you've moved house. One thing I forgot
was that when you change email addresses, some sevices send a validation
email to your _old_ address. Get the new email before you cut off demon
completely. Run them in parallel for a while, e.g. the notice period.
usenet. They're different specialisations so a co. that can do
one well, could easily (and usually) be crap at another.



They're 5-10 USD/month and give better coverage+d/l cap than an ISP will

Have you checked the ratings at http://www.webhostingjury.com/
The reviews tend to be self-selecting (i.e. people only write in
when they have a gripe, or want to "balance" things) so you don't
get a representative view - but it's handy to see the drawbacks.
Also you don't mention access to a MySQL database. You may not
want it now, but that can change in the future if you want to
use a CMS for your website.

you're welcome in advance
Pete

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"Fergus McMenemie" <fergus@twig.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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I used to use Demon as well. In common with a lot of others I
moved across to A&A years ago.

http://aaisp.net.uk

I took out googlemail.com for my e-mail address to allow me to move my ISP
this coming August when my 12 month up.
I choose Google because the other rivals charge, particulary when you wish
to download e-mails to OE (pop3)

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On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:37:29 GMT, David wrote:

As others have suggested try http://aaisp.net.uk

The ISP is AAISP.

Bear in mind that they do not offer full hosting as such, just basic
with no databases or php, just perl. They only have official support
during office hours but that doesn't mean they abandon everything
outside those times and often seem to be working all hours. I even had
a domain set up late one Saturday night.

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In uk.telecom.broadband, on Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:58:52, Alastair wrote:

Likewise. I also use Gradwell for other domains and web-service. The
two work well together. http://gradwell.com

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David wrote:

Hotmail doesn't charge !

Anyway, the best idea is to get you own domain.

Graham

Alastair wrote:

They cost a FORTUNE though and don't even match IDnet's satisfaction rating at
thinkbroadband.com.

Graham

Alastair wrote:

They cost a FORTUNE though and don't even match IDnet's satisfaction rating at
thinkbroadband.com.

Graham

"Rodney Pont" <aspaminy7@infohitsystems.ltd.uk> wrote in message
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find this very interesting as this as never happened before.
Do not think it is my security system as that is not giving any warnings
about access.

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"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:47D138A0.87EC4DC5@hotmail.com...
You get what you pay for. Considering that they only measure
downloads and only in office hours I consider that they are
a bargain - I have a 2GB account, but it's truly unlimited at the
times I actually use it and I generally get less than 1GB at
metered times - in fact I'm thinking of saving a bit by
dropping to the 1GB tarrif.

I don't know who votes there, everyone I know who uses
A&A (home and business) finds them superb.

And they provide features that others don't - bonded
lines, unlimited static IPs (as long as you can justify them
to RIPE) at no extra cost, IPv6...

In uk.telecom.broadband, on Fri, 7 Mar 2008 13:01:55, David wrote:

Are you using a Virgin connection at the moment? That might explain
it...

e.g. Those on AOL may find links to NewNet blocked. Virgin may do
something similar for all I know for other ISPs. Sneaky.

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Well that's a good question.
I'm with Tesco.net they did subcontract to NTL, I have recently asked them
if they used Virgin as Virgin took NTL over, Tesco told me no they were not
using Virgin, after NTL went.

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