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Originally Posted by Charlie_Bubble
I've heard bad things about Bulldog recently though. I'm looking around for a decent ADSL ISP and I heard that bulldogs 2Meg off-peak tends to drop to 1Meg at weekends rather than the full 2. The other thing that puts me off them is they don't have their own news service so I'd still have to fork out for my aditional news access.
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The speeds you will get will Bulldog do depend on what exchange you are on, and what the other Bulldog users on your exchange are doing..
Of course, if you are in Central London on an LLU exchange, then you are foolish not to get it - virtually zero contention and 400K upload then
Though, Bulldog do seem to upgrade the bandwidth available, when they notice their are sustained speed issues and/or an exchange gets more Bulldog users
I personally (on my exchange) have no problems on their Primetime 2000 product and get over 200K when downloading..
During the day, when my product is supposed to be capped to 512K/60k - I often exceed this and get up to 100k
As for news access - you are right, they don't have their own newserver.
I use
http://news.individual.net/ (free) for text groups and ClaraNews for binaries and it seems to work quite well for me.
If anyone does want to join Bulldog, can they drop me a PM - I have a referral code somewhere
Sunil