What ISP?

[andygates]

With BT being fiendishly spendy and utterly jumping the shark over Phorm, I needs me an ISP.  There's no cable down here in sunny Devon, my monthly usage is around 12Gb (it'll go up now that the Wii supports iPlayer) and all I need is a nice unspied-upon neutral vanilla pipe that stays up.  Suggestions?  Bundle packages might be tempting.

Comments

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

What's Phorm?

[simoneck.livejournal.com]

evil intrusive monitoring of your network traffic (for targeted advertising, at least to begin with).
NTL is still undecided last thing I read.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Exactly that. It's a deep-in-the-datastream traffic analysis that pipes targeted adverts to you. It is allegedly anonymised, but I never believe that.

Basically I don't want ads for goatfelch.com (derived from my foul evening surfing) appearing during the day while showing some cool Wiki article to somebody. It's none of their business and I don't want the adverts at all, never mind 'targeted' ones. And that's assuming that we trust them not to do all sorts of intrusive other screening. They can, simply, feck off.

[jonnycowbells.livejournal.com]

I used Zen alot in the past, but I switch on and off every 6 months (for obvious reasons) so I may have to examine the market in a week or so. That said, Zen's always seemed to have good support when needed, gave me a fixed IP and didn't have much down time. Cancelling and opening services with them is straightforward.

Slightly off topic - anyone got Wii Mariokart yet? Wondering how it compares to Snes, 64 and Gamecube versions (yes, I'm that old and yes, I've played that much mariokart)

[fox-uk.livejournal.com]

I use UKOnline, simply because they have no traffic filtering and pretty much no download limits whatsoever. We're talking GEEGAAABIIIIITES and then some and not so much as a warm router to let me know they're unhappy. Unfortunately, they have been bought out by News International but without any degredation in service.

Then again, if I were to do it all over again I'd be very tempted by Be, for pretty much the same reasons, but with an O2 connection instead of a Murdochian one.