I think AAISP are one of the best examples of how usage patterns effect the price you pay. I probably use 25-45gb a month and I'd expected that by coming here I'd be paying more, but because almost all of my usage is off-peak I ended up saving a (whopping) pound a month and pay

Cost isn't a issue for me as I don't pay for it.
Over the last 4 weeks I've spend over 12 hours queuing on the telephone, all during the day to at 4p/min it's cost me over 1 months line rental in calls alone.

I'm the same. My current 'peak' usage at worst was 8gb. But that is 4pm to midnight - the time I use it the most, and that included uploads too.

Now that peak time is entirely when I'm at work, so will be limited to a few hours of RDP, and the downloading in that respect is not much more than a few kb/s, I should be easily able to stay under a couple of GB. If that's the case, I'll drop my tariff.

Thanks Xela.

I'm not expecting an ISP to maintain a 100% uptime record, that unrealistic.
But it's about finding someone better than where I am now, which it would clearly seem I have.

I've not just made my decision overnight. I've been considering A&A for some time now, and now that my 12 month contract is up I see even less reason to say where I am.

thing is that if something does mess up on your connection, ifyou can get on the internet at all theres the irc
and youll always find someone to help you through some issue ... if not the staff themselves

sometimes if its a big fsck up then you wont be the only one in the same boat and the usual answer from other users on the channel will be ... we know ... lets all just sit back while its fixed

re tariffs ive managed to modify my use to bulk tx at eve and night ... works for me
last month i came in at 900MB peak this month its currently at 1.5GB but still well under the 3GB i buy in

AA have many strong points. One of those is a 30 day contract so, if you decide they blow, leaving is eeeasy.

That was my big mistake with PLusnet. I went from monthly telelworker account to dial-up whilst I moved house, then back to a yearly contract. Then came CBC and the rest is history.

how common are these ddos attacks that drop connectivity, right now I am very seriously considering a&a since nildram are not been helpful on my adsl problems but am worried I will end up with a even more unstable connection.

http://aaisp.blogspot.com/ has 99.999% of outtages (and http://aaisp-planned.blogspot.com) , and the newsgroup, and the IRC channel.

Edited by TechnoGoat (Sun 23-Jul-06 02:55:49)

thanks its good they seem to post even if a 15 second outage.