Re: [OTish] BT Midband OR 128k ISDN Service Recommendations?

["Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

Midband is Home Highway, pure and simple + a £10per month ISP, with lousy
call allowance, and mediocre features.

We are in the same situation James,  and opted to install a second Highway
installation: the Low Start package gives you £249 installation charge,
then
a quarterly £93, with no call allowance (because all your calls will be
FRIACO or Surftime)

I am on Demon Internet (again) and can recommend the service (if not the
company!). It costs £25 a month for Surftime 24/7, and £19 a month for 64K
unmetered, but you have no cut off (I am currently on hour 49 since
connecting last) and a static IP address with no port blocking.

128k is either charged (different number) or you have to pay an extra
£40pcm.

The other best option imo, is Quik Internet, with 128K unmetered, and a 420
hours allowance (210 at 128k) for £35 a month. except there, you have no
static IP.

It's all very, very depressing, especially when you have people busily
discussing how 256k upload just isn't enough. The UK rollout of Broadband
is
more about politics and nepotism than sound commercial sense, and this is
just the crap we have to live, or move house to one of the quasi random
areas blessed with broadband.

I.