Gonna be dormant for a while, no Internet

[Pitspawn]

Well it finally happened. I couldn't get any form of decent internet connection, and now I cant even get ANY form of internet connection thats lastable.

I was on 56k, and yesturday the last NTL (Fiber Optic) supporting ISP, Net in a Nutshell went belly up. I now am stuck with pay as you go internet connection WHICH I AM PAYING FOR BY THE MINUTE. Unfortunately, because of this, I cannot realistically spend much more than an hour per day on the Internet w/o incurring massive phone bills.

I am canceling my fiber optic line and getting a copper line put in (running off of BT) With that I'm going to retry ADSL (512/256) and hope to god that my line passes this time. If it does not, I will have to pay out for an expensive FRAICO based ISP. The one I've been looking at is £37 per month excluding phone line rental. So its more like £50 per month for 56k connection :(

I hate England. When I get out of college and into a real job, Im going to plan moving to some tech filled place in Japan or the USA. We are quite literally one of the most dated places for Internet connections.

[RED Hot Machine]

Have you tried the likes of aol and freeserve that offer an unlimited service for a flat fee of around £15 a month, no call charges?

Have you also thought of getting cable?

[rugby]

Don't think the US has great broadband. I'm moving into an area that both north and south have great cable and dsl. We will have nothing and continue to have nothing for years because we between two CO's and the cable company doesn't care one bit about our town.

[klosters64a]

Ouch! I'm sorry to read of your predicament, Pitspawn. I must admit, the UK doesn't seem to have leaped into the "Information Age" with all that much vigor as far as connecting to the Web goes.

Situations are different in every country. Easy, fast and reasonably priced(DSL is expensive in my urban neighborhood)connections to the Web remain a dream for too many people.

[Pitspawn]

Right, Im signed up for V21 56k now. They are very expensive and their service is poor :(

Unfortunately, they are the best out of most ISPs :eek:

Gonna try ADSL soon, changing phone lines about first. If that fails, I will order ISDN. ISDN is expensive, slow and has a long running contract. But the thing is that although my throughput wont be much better (around 50-100% more) but the ping will be better (100-200ms rather than 180-300ms with modem). I play a lot of games on the Internet (Mainly Tribes2 and Red Faction before you ask) so latency means everything to me.

[RedDeathDrinker]

It's a good time to get ADSL. BT have halved the installation fee: - If you take it through BT Internet.

56k is all that's available otherwise up here in the chilly north of the UK........

[Pitspawn]

Yeah the problem is that I failed the ADSL test last time. Its very rare for that to happen. I think something happened before hand because my line quality dropped by around 50% before install. 3 weeks after install the line quality went back to its usual quality for no reason.

Im gonna retry it again. I've had my line cleaned up and i've changed my number so i can be routed to a closer exchange.

If ADSL fails, I will try Home Highway. If that fails, Business Highway will not as its range is 10km. Its very expensive, but I need a low ping badly. I've been forced to put up with 250-300ms pings for over three weeks now. Its bad considering i'm in a clan. My clan members have noticed my poor performance because of the bad ping.