Hello all

My migration to aaisp from Zen was completed today. I was on Zens legacy 1meg service. Now i'm synced at 4256 kbps and getting download speed of 400k/s or so. So i've very pleased.

One thing tho i notice if i do a whois lookup on my new aaisp ip my full name is in the results. I really dont like the thought of people being able to get my full name that easy. Can i get this changed?

Blackmesa8

yes just email support, or ask in the irc channel

Edited by deleted (Fri 14-Aug-09 21:20:32)

Email support or PM me your login and I will get the RIPE info removed.

Welcome to AAISP

I think i've found where i can change it in the Broadband members area. But it says

"The following details are published in RIPE. If you are an individual and not a business then you can choose to leave some entries blank. You should only include VALID contact details here and not make up details.

And "Name Firstname then surname of natural/real person"

So am i aloud to change it from my real name to say "Blackmesa8"?

Blackmesa8

I have removed the details completely

It's still showing up when i do a whois search.. Am i correct to assume it will take a while for the change to filter through the ripe database?

Thanks for your amazingly quick response and help tho

Blackmesa8

In reply to a post by blackmesa8:

It's still showing up when i do a whois search.. Am i correct to assume it will take a while for the change to filter through the ripe database?



Blackmesa8

I just did a whois direct from ripe.net and it has been updated, it was pretty much instant.

Yep its not showing up through them. On the whois search i was using tho.
http://whois.domaintools.com/

It still shows up. I guess there slower in updating than ripe themselves.
I'm sure it will update there soon too, and be gone
Thanks again for your quick support.

Blackmesa8

It has gone from http://whois.domaintools.com/ too now. No mention of my name anywhere todo with my ip. And i must say 2nd day on aaisp and its still amazing. Everything is so speedy and loads instantly

Blackmesa8

I'm interested if your pings stay lower and remain consistent with AAisp Blackmesa.

After your feedback on the Zen TB subforum I've been checking AAisp out and think I may be able to save some pennies on the 2gb Pro package at £20.50 especially after realising that includes VAT.

As long as the connection remains a quality connection "Off peak" when the greater allowance is available and when I play online the product could serve me well.

Although I believe AAISP don't implement traffic shaping/throttling i wouldn't like the idea that the network got "swamped" as soon as the generous allowance period started. From the face of it AAisp don't look to me as thougn they would attract the heavy user type customer, so I'm sort of assuming that they can be generous off peak because it's likely that most their business users have probably packed up for the day.

Anyway, I've got the Free version of NetLimiter monitoring just how much I do use. I know I use around 10-15GB a month, but I'm not sure what i use during AAisp's peak weekday period. So if I'm within the 2GB monthly usage and certainly with the 1 month minimum contract I might well give them a try.

I've been with AAISP for a while and rarely seen it even slow down - they have plenty of capacity... even more now they've switched everyone to IPSC.

Well, nearly everyone. I'm currently stuck out in the cold since BT jumped the gun this afternoon.

I don't want to risk re-booting my router just yet, otherwise I'll likely loose my BRAS profile which I've had for months, but likely would be reduced when I initially sync too fast and then get knocked down by BT (as has happened in the past).

So currently accessing internet via my Vodafone 3G dongle and can see what happens tomorrow morning. Nothing urgent happening tonight for me to start jumping up and down.

Just gets me that BT seem to undermine the excellence of A&A by not living up to their expected capability.

No doubt other ISPs will have taken a hit this afternoon. At one point my Vodafone 3G dongle would not sync - considering Vodafone's 3G mast is about 150 metres away from me and visible through the window, made me wonder how that mast communicates back to Vodafone. It is a wooden pole variety, no microwave dishes but BT were there when it was commissioned and there is a newly laid duct across the road to a BT manhole. Make you think...

Cheers!

In reply to a post by Ancient_Mariner:

made me wonder how that mast communicates back to Vodafone. It is a wooden pole variety, no microwave dishes but BT were there when it was commissioned and there is a newly laid duct across the road to a BT manhole. Make you think...

You'd be right, the mast is connected to the landline network.

just reset ppp?

Yeah, I didn't word that too well. The point I was making was that I bought the Vodafone 3G dongle due to the proximity of their 3G mast, as a back-up to my ADSL connection. However, since the mast and my house likely connect to the same BT exchange, with the initial lack of my 3G dongle 'seeing' the mast, I wondered whether I have inadvertently not improved my reliability?

Anyway it is connecting fine now, indicating maximum signal on the connection wizard and Excellent Signal on the task-bar.

Cheers!

Indeed I consider AAISP to be the best ISP around.. except for the fact they have to rely on BT, which spoils it.

LLU can't come fast enough, IMO.

In reply to a post by Vorlon:

I'm interested if your pings stay lower and remain consistent with AAisp Blackmesa.

...............

As long as the connection remains a quality connection "Off peak" when the greater allowance is available and when I play online the product could serve me well.

Here's a pic of my line usage which for 3 days wasn't being used at all.
The green area on the bottom of the charts shows the MAX (So worst case) ping times as they vary through the day so should give you some idea of how the network performance varies by hour.
Think you'll be ok

Ping time link

How can you tell if a change to IPSC has occurred?
thanks

seems slow at the moment

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/1...

http://www.speedtest.net/result/543976204.png

You're either on 21cn/ADSL2+ or 20cn via IPSC.

There's no third option any more. If you're having problems like that contact A&A* as that's not normal.. BT are known to have screwed up their capacity planning and that affects at least 2 exchanges in different ways - Basingstoke and Watling Street.

You should never get slowdowns of that magnitude on A&A - their stated policy is never to be the bottleneck on a connection. If you do then it's likely someone at BT needs hitting with a cluebat.

* IRC tends to be fastest, but the other methods work as well.