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Old Aug 19, 2008 | 02:25 PM
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Can anyone recommend a DSL based Internet Provider that can offer a good upload speed ?

Ideally 4Mb down / 1Mb up

We use Be , but this new one must be different (its for fail-over)
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Old Aug 19, 2008 | 02:54 PM
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If you want to run on different hardware than the LLU (not O2 or Sky?) - you will have to go with something on the BT network (and thus limiting your upload).

Depends on what level of fail-over you want (and from where).
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Old Aug 19, 2008 | 03:27 PM
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faster upload will be from ADSL2/2+ provider like bethere.co.uk. or cable.
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Old Aug 19, 2008 | 04:33 PM
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Upload on NTL cable is rubbish
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Old Aug 19, 2008 | 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by JackClark
Upload on NTL cable is rubbish
So is download at the moment
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Old Aug 19, 2008 | 08:16 PM
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As I said we use Be which are actually pretty damn good value - 1Mb/s upload, so I was wondering if anyone has used an ISP that can offer similar ?

Has to be DSL unfortunately.

EDITED: Someone's just told me to check out Bulldog / Pipex, as they do 1Mb/s upload - will check em out.

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Old Aug 20, 2008 | 06:53 AM
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UKOnline, been with them for several years now. Totally unlimited bandwidth and I can upload at 100k (Download at around 1700k).
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Our office connection with Plusnet is 8Mb/s down, 832Kb/s up.

I know it's not quite 1Mb/s up, but it's getting close.
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Old Aug 20, 2008 | 03:17 PM
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If it's an ISP using the BT ADSL Max platform, then upload is going to be 832kb/second.

You've already got Be, so that rules out their ADSL 2 Annex M option.

If EasyNet have got to your exchange, then they will have some business services but they aren't cheap. I don't know about other LLU providers.

Does your exchange a RFS (Ready For Service) date for BT's ADSL 2 platform? There will be an Annex M option for that, though I'm not sure if that's available now and if all ISPs will be offering it.
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Old Aug 20, 2008 | 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by ChrisB
If it's an ISP using the BT ADSL Max platform, then upload is going to be 832kb/second.

You've already got Be, so that rules out their ADSL 2 Annex M option.

If EasyNet have got to your exchange, then they will have some business services but they aren't cheap. I don't know about other LLU providers.

Does your exchange a RFS (Ready For Service) date for BT's ADSL 2 platform? There will be an Annex M option for that, though I'm not sure if that's available now and if all ISPs will be offering it.
yes, we have Be already and can upload at around 1Mb/s (832Kb/s?)

Easynet is the company we're ditching on the other line, as they're too expensive / slow for our modest budget.

It's looking like Pipex, although I'll check out John's PlusNet suggestion.
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Old Aug 20, 2008 | 08:41 PM
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I'm with PlusNet and took advantage of their free 3 month trial of ADSL Max Premium which is the service that ups the upload from 448 to 832K. Was surprised to get that upload too without losing some download speed but for £8 a month with no increase in usage caps or anything the price was OTT in my book.
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Old Aug 20, 2008 | 09:07 PM
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Plus cant even keep me connected for more than 10 minutes this week.....
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Old Aug 21, 2008 | 11:29 AM
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hmm, ok - anyone with Pipex / Bulldog ?

I'd totally recommend Be - they offer a good consistent service and even their tech support knows their stuff. Decent value too.
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Old Aug 21, 2008 | 11:48 AM
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"Bulldog Broadband is a trading name of Pipex Internet Limited, a Tiscali UK company"

let's put it this way, you want to bethere or be tiscali?
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Old Aug 21, 2008 | 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by suba
"Bulldog Broadband is a trading name of Pipex Internet Limited, a Tiscali UK company"

let's put it this way, you want to bethere or be tiscali?
gawd Bulldog are owned by Pipex, who are owned by Tiscali ?!?!

I need 2 ISP's - one of which I have in Be. We're happy with them.
The other (fail-over and VPN) I was going to nominate Pipex as the package looks good (upload 1Mb/s)
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Old Aug 21, 2008 | 03:04 PM
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ok, goto Samknows Broadband - Comprehensive Broadband Information and look up your exchange and see who is offering faster line there.
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Old Aug 21, 2008 | 03:09 PM
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Originally Posted by spectrum48k
gawd Bulldog are owned by Pipex, who are owned by Tiscali ?!?!

I need 2 ISP's - one of which I have in Be. We're happy with them.
The other (fail-over and VPN) I was going to nominate Pipex as the package looks good (upload 1Mb/s)
Zen or Nildram (proably Nildram). They seem to tbe the only ISPs left who are still reasonably good...
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Old Aug 21, 2008 | 03:21 PM
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Originally Posted by suba
ok, goto Samknows Broadband - Comprehensive Broadband Information and look up your exchange and see who is offering faster line there.
will check it out suba - cheers
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Old Aug 21, 2008 | 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by GC8
Zen or Nildram (proably Nildram). They seem to tbe the only ISPs left who are still reasonably good...
yeah, we use Zen at one of our branches and they seem fine - they only drawback being their upload speed isn't very good.

Basically, I want 1Mb/s upload on either side of the VPN link (also used as fail-over), so we're ditching Easynet at one end, Zen on the other and replacing with one ISP
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Old Aug 21, 2008 | 05:51 PM
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I use Virgin media and constatly seed 2.4MBps on download until they cap me after 3.5gig
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Old Aug 21, 2008 | 05:57 PM
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And of course Nildram is owned by Pipex and therefore Tiscali!
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Old Aug 21, 2008 | 09:14 PM
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Originally Posted by kernel
And of course Nildram is owned by Pipex and therefore Tiscali!
love Nildram, but they're pricey in comparison to others
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