Recommend me a good dial-up ISP

[Paul K]

Originally Posted by SMHarman

Time to lobby your MP i feel. Don't you do corp comms, a good PR campaign is needed here, perhaps you could even offer him (well most are hims) some help with his reelection campaign.


Find yourself a nice government job that enables you to work from home and requires a BB connection. That would be a pretty good sponsor.

And if you work for the department of work and pensions then it's your duty to make as much use of your broadband as possible
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3600686.stm

Originally Posted by Paul

And if you work for the department of work and pensions then it's your duty to make as much use of your broadband as possible
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3600686.stm

Hmmm, saw that this morning. It's amazing how some people think the internet is a truly anonymous place to be ... prolly the same people who pick their nose while waiting at traffic lights and think no-one can see in to their car.

There is a Glasgow University field station near our new house so maybe they'll be interested in getting the exchange enabled. Alternatively the Scottish Parliament might have some plan of its own to get rural areas upgraded. I'll have to do some digging, and maybe write a letter or two.

Ohyesohyesohyesohyes!

Looks like I'll be getting broadband for Christmas 2006.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4478497.stm

Nearer the time I think I'll start a 'recommend me a good ADSL ISP' thread.

[Graham M]

Woop! not too long a wait then

[chahal]

here is an answer which can make your life a bit easier the only problem is you gonna have to find some one who lives nearby who would share the connection with you
go for a satalite connection and share it with may be two others to reduce the cost per month by using wireless router
ive done it before so i know it works well i had a 2mb connection which i shared with three others in canada plz give me a shout if you need some help in this regard ......

I did give that some thought, there are a couple of problems with it at our location though. First, we haven't lived there long, so it might not be easy to set up an agreement with neighbours; second, it's a rural location, the houses are well spread out and we would probably have issues sharing the signal adequately; third, two-way satellite broadband systems (you couldn't share a one-way system IMO, as you still rely on dial-up for the upstream) retail at over £2,000 in the UK; and finally, I wouldn't trust anyone else to manage the system, and I can't do it as sat modems are all USB only at present, with no drivers for Mac, which is my home computer of choice.

Snookered!

Nice idea though, thanks for the suggestion