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Originally Posted by gethin
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Just need to find a ISP thats not Phorm anyone know if Sky is looking into phorm?
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RE: Sky:
YES and um... NO?
Currently not looking to deploy but i would bet my last that if and when phorm launches in the UK Sky will quicly run and jump onto the bandwagon.
IE: let someone else take the risk and do all the grunt work, then reap the benifits.
As for an ISP, i can highly recomend BE* 24mb down and 3+5mb up under optimal ADSL2+ conditions (IE: if you live next door to your BT exchange) top whack will set you back 22 quid a month, its unshaped, the fair usage policy is awesome (i download bus-tonnage of data and have never been shaped/throttled)
The greatest benifit of my ISP is that its still small, and they really do listen to customers (they have an awesome communityvia a forum, IRC server, their support is one of the best ive used and they understand that their customer base has significant power over their commercial success as a business)
The downside is that ADSL is a little glitchy at best and results will vary widely due to the constraints of the technology (IE it wont tolerate long noisy lines very well), however that being said the BT cable goes from my house, through europe to bosnia, swings up and across through russia, loops the loop round the czech republic and finaly routes back through to my excange and i get 6mb solid on my very rural connection.
I was originaly on the mid package (£20 a month and they instantly dropped me down to the base package after a 5 min phonecall (8mb @ £14 a month and refunded me six quid there and then.)
On BT i get 750kb down, (they told me my line would never push 2mb)
AOL is simmilar.
Sky again is the same.
There have been reports of glitches in their DNS servers too but there are options available to work around this.
So yeah, ive been through a good few ISP's from back when 33.6kbps dialup was insanely fast and frankly ive never been with a better provider.
Theyve publicly stated on their forums that "Theyre not looking into using phorm
FOR THE TIME BEING which is less than reassuring, but im certain if they deployed the backlash would be thus that they would frankly loose their customer base.