well done on a choice well made
look forward to seeing you on the irc

All I gotta do know is work out what to do with all my spare IP's, get my existing domain names moved over, and get my rDNS setup.

We currently have our home workers on BT Business Broadband, but I caught my boss looking over my shoulder, then later on he was looking at the CUG pages making notes.

Mass migration of 50-odd accounts maybe???

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We currently have our home workers on BT Business Broadband, but I caught my boss looking over my shoulder, then later on he was looking at the CUG pages making notes.

Mass migration of 50-odd accounts maybe???

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heh!

it can be contagious! and I know you've already made your choice but I second everything everyone's said so far. top dollar over here. irc can get a little.. disturbing at times though... (i'll not mention anything about BT engineers wearing tea towels!)



Just kidding! Hope to see you on IRC anyway, let us know how you get on here if not.

Jon

Did anyone mention that A&A are hidiously unreliable? :-p

only the other day we suffered the effects of a ddos
but after a short while it was sorted by the staff and after a quick restart of the router service was all back to normal

i leave the country for weeks at a time and know with full confidence that things will be sorted in short shrift should there be any boggle

even with zen i used to have to get ppl to come to the house and restart my routers for me, usually the day after i left for 6-8 weeks, you cant imagine how stressful that is when youre 1600km away in another country

these days i dont give it a second's thought

sure its irritating not to be able to get ones email or reach ones servers for a short while, irritating that some script kidding numptie takes it upon themselves to generate a ddos but i do rest easy in the knowledge that a skillful dedicated and caring team work to ameliorate any effects quickly and efficiently

now im the first to recommend zen
or was ...
they [zen] can only dream about the personal preference and monitor portal that A&A provide, giving total view and control over ones connection, any combination of ips FREE, dns and rdns right there for your own editing, the staff at A&A even changed my username on request!!!! to jzaw of course this sort of personal service is unsurpassed in my experience

the capping on A&A connections wont suit everyone but they suit me very well at this time
oh its uncapped offpeak and at the w/e

to put it briefly id swap the type of unreliability that A&A exhibits for the type of unreliability exhibited by any of the other isp's out there ... mysterious unfathomable issues reliant on a non existent cooperation from BT to resolve ...

bras stuck at 512k .... see if your isp can spank BT's bottom and get it fixed quicker than A&A
want to chat instantly without telephone menu's and for free with your tech support ... try your isp's irc,
oh thats right ... they dont have one .... A&A do

gimmie another isp ? no thanks! gimmie A&A!!

signed ... a fanboy

Define "hidiously unreliable"

Have they lost 700Gb of EU's email?
Have they swapped to usage based charging and then stuffed up measuring your usage?
Do they terminate your PPP session at least once a day?
Have they left calls raised to them outstanding for 11 weeks without a hint of resolution?
Have they consistantly broken functionality of their website?
Have the added new services that have been intermittant from day 1?
Do they shape packets based on what appears to be a random formula?
Have they had faulty gateways that drop packets and severely slow your speeds down for months, despite being told by so many people, and failed to sort them?
Does DNS resoultion die several times a week?
Do their webservers run to a crawl more often than not?
Do their phone systems send you round the houses and then cut you off?
If you don;t get kicked off does it take up to 2 hours for them to actually answer the phone?
Does it take several days for them to answer email/tickets?

No?? Well I think I'll take my chances then ;-)

> Define "hidiously unreliable"

Unreliable connectivity with several periods of up to an hour with no or limited connectivity.

There are lots of plus points of being with AA but you should at least be aware of the problems before you join.

I've been with them a couple of months, I can't comment on too much as I only use them for connectivity, but they seem like a damned good ISP. I always get the impression they're techies first and a business second, IYSWIM.

As Xela says, they do seem to suffer more than other ISPs when DDOS attacks occur, it's annoying when it does happen but little things like the IRC channel means you tend to have an idea what's going on (assuming of course that you can get there).

if by several you mean once every two months or so
sure
but it all came back up with no intervention from me
that simply wasnt happening with zen and certainly not with plusnet and even less so with freeserve as my previous isps

"No?? Well I think I'll take my chances then"

Maybe not but they are substantially (over 50%) more expensive for my light user needs than my current provider(s), and none of the list you post have affected me (yet ).

So I'll take my chances too, and for the time being A+A aren't getting my money. Which is a shame for all concerned

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