Choose a new broadband ISP

The glitch with getting the 8Meg ADSL working was caused by the master phone socket unbeknown to me having a microfilter built in to it. This meant that I was trying to plug the modem + filter into a filtered phone socket rather than plug the modem without its associated filter directly into the unfiltered ADSL output.
I worked this out after research led me to this useful site:

http://www.clarity.it/telecoms/adsl_bits.htm

Bulldog appear to have offered me:

unlimited 8Meg broadband for £17.50 pm .
£1 for the first month, no connection fee, no contract.
a free wireless router.

My internet connection gets cut off soon, and frankly I’m not that bothered. If I haven’t finished the last ultraversity module by then I can upload it from work. Who needs broadband in the summer holidays?

Oh bums, I’ve just realised that with the loss of my broadband supplier I’ll have to move the manor park website as well, since it’s hosted at http://www.manorpark.homechoice.co.uk/

and that will break the links from sites such as this one
http://wildweb.london.gov.uk/LW2/PublicSiteView.do?siteid=7320

Perhaps I’ll just shift it onto a combination of Flickr and the Manor Park blog http://manorpark.blogdrive.com/

My current ISP will cut me off on June 30th, blaming BT for not supporting their legacy VOD network, so I have to find a new one and the transition won’t be easy since the release code system thingy, (a bit like the one for transferring a mobile number to a new network) doesn’t apply to moves from videonetworks to normal broadband.

I’ve been with the old one for several yeaars, and when they started up it was by far the best available service in the London area, sending streaming video to the TV simultaneously with a genuine 1Mb intenet commection all over the twisted pair of copper wires which were always used on older telephone exchanges. But for the last year or so it became expensive compared to the competition, so I had intended to stick with them only until after the online degree course finishes in May 2006.

Now I have to arrange for an alternative, including allowing for an indefinite break in service sometime before June 30th, which could become extremely inconvenient.

The first I’ll look at is Bulldog.

http://www.bulldogbroadband.com/

and it probaby makes sense to consider escaping from the BT landline quarterly standing charge as well, not to mention switching electricity, gas, water, banking, insurance, savings, travelcard, subscriptions, etc etc

Modern life is rubbish.