AAISP provide a service that is very different to your typical ISP.
We signed up for 80/20 FTTC on the Home::1 tariff. The predicted line speed on BT Wholesale was marginal for 80/20, so we wanted to be able to switch down to 40/10 without issue.
We are exceptionally heavy Internet users (200-300GB/month) so also required an increased quota.
Of course, all of this comes at a cost, costing more than most of their competitors. But with this, we get:
* Low and consistent latency - 9ms whatever the time of the day.
* No throttling or speed restrictions. Our old ISP used to throttle if we used the Internet heavily in the day, despite being "unlimited". The advantage of AAISP not having an unlimited tariff is that they can pay for the bandwidth they need and guarantee you get the best speeds.
* No monitoring - I know that they have no systems in place to store any communications data. This is very important to us.
* IPv6 working, out of the box. Each one of our network devices has it's own IPv6 address.
* No NAT - we have added a block of IPv4 addresses, allowing us to ditch NAT.
* No restrictions on running servers on your line.
* Tech support available by IRC and email, very proactive, very knowledgeable.
* Comprehensive line monitoring including throughput, latency and usage.
* Their ethos is to maintain your privacy and digital rights, in stark contrast to the big ISPs.
After ~12 days of 80/20 service, we decided we would switch down to 40/10 service as the difference was marginal. This was done simply by sending an email.
If you rely on the Internet, want functionality like IPv6, or are simply fed up with government monitoring, AAISP is for you.
As a quick addition - I do a lot of network scans for penetration testing. For a start, most ISPs technically don't allow this. AAISP do. But the 9ms latency means that scans run exceptionally fast compared to competitors.
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