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Looking to rent a local office to work out of, as the broadband options at home are dreadful.
Unfortunately my nearest town has pretty poor connectivity so I'm faced with a choice of trying to get the best I can there, or travelling further. If I go for local:
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The following services are available in your location:
BT Wholesale ADSL
BT Wholesale ADSL Max
BT Wholesale WBC (21CN)
BT Wholesale SDSL
BT FTTC
AOL LLU
O2 / Be LLU
TalkTalk (CPW) LLU
Sky Broadband / Easynet LLU
Tiscali LLU
Orange LLU (Formerly Wanadoo)
You are connected to the Alton telephone exchange.
ADSL is available in your area
Your exchange is also enabled for ADSL Max services
Your exchange is also enabled for ADSL2+ services
According to BT Wholesale, houses at your postcode should be able to support
up to 2Mbps via ADSL
7.5Mbps or greater ADSL connection via ADSL Max
15Mbps or greater via ADSL2+
Standard ADSL RAG results
You can receive 2Mbps ADSL
You can receive 1Mbps ADSL
You can receive 512kbps ADSL
You can receive 256kbps ADSL
You are approximately 515 metres from the exchange. Note that this is the straight line distance - the actual cable length will be longer!
ADSL status: Enabled as of 28/02/2003
ADSL Max status: Enabled as of 31/03/2006
SDSL status: Enabled as of 17/07/2005
21CN WBC status: Enabled as of 31/03/2010
FTTC status: Available in some areas
AOL: Enabled
O2 / Be: Enabled
C&W / Bulldog: Not available
Edge Telecom: Not available
Entanet: Not available
Lumison: Not available
NewNet: Not available
Node4: Not available
Orange: Enabled as of 29/11/2007
Pipex: Not available
Sky / Easynet: Enabled as of 07/05/2007
Smallworld: Not available
TalkTalk (CPW): Enabled
Tiscali: Enabled as of 25/07/2007
Tiscali TV: Enabled as of 25/07/2007
WB Internet: Not available
Zen Internet: Not available
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There's no cable and although the exchange has been "enabled" for FTTC, no business areas I can find can get it. Wonder if some businesses there have leased lines BT wants to protect. Hmmm..
So if I go local then I'm stuck with ADSL and all the broadband speed maps show dreadful speeds in the town.
I need to negotiate with the office place to make sure that I can exit immediately if the broadband turns out to be useless (accpeting I'll have to shell out for the line install and one month's broadband). I'm looking for 10Mbps down minimum and have to accept that upstream via ADSL will be slow anyway.
I've narrowed the list of possible ISPs based on my requirements, but I still can't find one that fits them all:
- Line install and rental and broadband must be from same supplier (can't be bothered mediating between the two in case of a fault and want a direct line of accountability)
- BT have to be eliminated from the circuit as far as possible, so not an ISP using BTW (rules out IDNET and Zen who I'd otherwise go for)
- One month contract
- SLA
It's that last one that's the problem.
AAISP look perfect and can provision over BE but no SLA (is that because BE don't do SLAs? Their own site makes no mention of them in a B2C capacity)
Spitfire can do the SLA, not sure about minimum contract term and LLU. The one month is a must in case it's rubbish.
Am I overlooking anyone? What would you suggest?
Thanks.
Unfortunately my nearest town has pretty poor connectivity so I'm faced with a choice of trying to get the best I can there, or travelling further. If I go for local:
--
The following services are available in your location:
BT Wholesale ADSL
BT Wholesale ADSL Max
BT Wholesale WBC (21CN)
BT Wholesale SDSL
BT FTTC
AOL LLU
O2 / Be LLU
TalkTalk (CPW) LLU
Sky Broadband / Easynet LLU
Tiscali LLU
Orange LLU (Formerly Wanadoo)
You are connected to the Alton telephone exchange.
ADSL is available in your area
Your exchange is also enabled for ADSL Max services
Your exchange is also enabled for ADSL2+ services
According to BT Wholesale, houses at your postcode should be able to support
up to 2Mbps via ADSL
7.5Mbps or greater ADSL connection via ADSL Max
15Mbps or greater via ADSL2+
Standard ADSL RAG results
You can receive 2Mbps ADSL
You can receive 1Mbps ADSL
You can receive 512kbps ADSL
You can receive 256kbps ADSL
You are approximately 515 metres from the exchange. Note that this is the straight line distance - the actual cable length will be longer!
ADSL status: Enabled as of 28/02/2003
ADSL Max status: Enabled as of 31/03/2006
SDSL status: Enabled as of 17/07/2005
21CN WBC status: Enabled as of 31/03/2010
FTTC status: Available in some areas
AOL: Enabled
O2 / Be: Enabled
C&W / Bulldog: Not available
Edge Telecom: Not available
Entanet: Not available
Lumison: Not available
NewNet: Not available
Node4: Not available
Orange: Enabled as of 29/11/2007
Pipex: Not available
Sky / Easynet: Enabled as of 07/05/2007
Smallworld: Not available
TalkTalk (CPW): Enabled
Tiscali: Enabled as of 25/07/2007
Tiscali TV: Enabled as of 25/07/2007
WB Internet: Not available
Zen Internet: Not available
--
There's no cable and although the exchange has been "enabled" for FTTC, no business areas I can find can get it. Wonder if some businesses there have leased lines BT wants to protect. Hmmm..
So if I go local then I'm stuck with ADSL and all the broadband speed maps show dreadful speeds in the town.
I need to negotiate with the office place to make sure that I can exit immediately if the broadband turns out to be useless (accpeting I'll have to shell out for the line install and one month's broadband). I'm looking for 10Mbps down minimum and have to accept that upstream via ADSL will be slow anyway.
I've narrowed the list of possible ISPs based on my requirements, but I still can't find one that fits them all:
- Line install and rental and broadband must be from same supplier (can't be bothered mediating between the two in case of a fault and want a direct line of accountability)
- BT have to be eliminated from the circuit as far as possible, so not an ISP using BTW (rules out IDNET and Zen who I'd otherwise go for)
- One month contract
- SLA
It's that last one that's the problem.
AAISP look perfect and can provision over BE but no SLA (is that because BE don't do SLAs? Their own site makes no mention of them in a B2C capacity)
Spitfire can do the SLA, not sure about minimum contract term and LLU. The one month is a must in case it's rubbish.
Am I overlooking anyone? What would you suggest?
Thanks.























