{"id":226,"date":"2008-01-15T22:41:46","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T22:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/?p=226"},"modified":"2015-07-21T11:10:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T10:10:59","slug":"looking-for-a-new-isp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Looking For a New ISP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use a business ADSL line at home provided by my employer, but since I&#8217;m changing jobs, that&#8217;s going to go away so I need a new ISP. My blog and mail are also hosted at work, so they will have to hang off the end of the new line while I change and configure my new hosting. My current ISP is, well, work, as an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enta.net\/\">Entanet<\/a> reseller and I&#8217;ve been exceptionally happy with Entanet, but business lines aren&#8217;t cheap so I&#8217;m not going to migrate it to my private telephone number.<\/p>\n<p>So, I solicit your opinion. I need the following things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Static IP<\/li>\n<li>No blocked ports<\/li>\n<li>Free setup and activation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now I know these things are provided by a lot of ISPs and certainly my previous ISP before I got a business line provided my company, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedom2surf.net\/\">Freedom2Surf<\/a>, do this and so do pretty much all of the other Entanet resellers do, so this isn&#8217;t a problem really.What makes the choice difficult are the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;d like ~800KB upload speed which is only available on the business connections with all of the above, as I&#8217;m going to have to host my blog and mail on the end of this line for a week or 4<\/li>\n<li>At least ~50GB download allowance, preferably with extra allowances off-peak<\/li>\n<li>Around \u00a325 on an ongoing monthly basis, ignoring discounted months up-front<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Extra bonus points for being able to provide extra no-NAT IP addresses either cheaply or at low cost. F2S used to charge \u00a35 for an extra IP, I can&#8217;t see the situation now. <a href=\"http:\/\/freeola.com\/\">Freeola<\/a> (Entanet reseller) are offering 8 IP no-NAT free and are the clear winner at the moment, but none of them offer an 800KB upload without paying for the business package, which is on average a third extra.<\/p>\n<p>Answers to this Dear Lazyweb in the comments. I&#8217;m willing to listen to people telling me to get cable, but Virgin Media support are said to be clueless, though if the price versus speed ratio is high enough that it&#8217;s worth me junking my BT line and ADSL kit for a wireless cable router, then I&#8217;ll think about it and hope I never have to speak to them. Ooh and Entanet and therefore their resellers are trialling 24Mb ADSL, though sadly my exchange isn&#8217;t due for this til 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use a business ADSL line at home provided by my employer, but since I&#8217;m changing jobs, that&#8217;s going to go away so I need a new ISP. My blog and mail are also hosted at work, so they will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/?p=226\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}