Mark Foster <blakjak@blakjak.net> wrote:

> World-Net in my experience are pretty poor, they also have a rep for not
> paying their bills (!) which could leave to traffic issues. You also
> apparently struggle to get decent english-speaking technical support. I
> certainly heard enough whines about them when their dialup flatrate was
> competitive.

  Well, the tech support doesn't matter much to me, as I mentioned. They
have their DNS and mail server addresses on their website, which should be
pretty much all I need. I'll bear the comments in mind, though.

> Im looking at providers myself at the moment and Paradise are looking
> pretty attractive.

  Paradise, however, will happily let me go over the standard traffic cap,
and bill me for the extra traffic. I *really* don't like variable costs
if I can avoid them, otherwise Paradise might be an option.

  I expect they're fine for regular users, but this is a shared (ie, high
traffic use) connection.

> To clarify, I work for Quicksilver but I like to have a connection outside
> of the network I work for as it provides for some redundancy when things
> fall over / makes it easy to check things from a third party network. I'm
> currently with Attica, and admittedly I havnt checked what they offer
> Jetstart for yet... (checked their site, $34.95/month with no published
> limitations - Might just do that considering I hold an account there
> already, and their service has been reasonable)...

  Looks interesting. Any current Attica (or Slingshot, who appear to be a
different arm of the same company) Jetstart users around?

> (For the record, although I work for Quicksilver, my opinions posted here
> are mine and mine alone.)
>
> Nevertheless I understand your position Jonathan, but you must surely also
> acknowledge that the caps are very much a way of keeping things within
> cost.

  As people have probably guessed, my current ISP is indeed Quicksilver,
thus Mark's comment at the start of his message. I wasn't going to
identify them (it just seems unprofessional to say "I'm quitting Provider
X, who's better?", because it might seem like an attack on them), but
since it's now pretty obvious, I should make the appropriate disclaimers.

  I have no problem with Quicksilver or their service, nor have I had any
in the past. They're doing what they need to do to keep costs down, and I
don't exactly fit the desirable user profile for a flat-rate service. I
know I'm not going to stay inside their traffic cap, so I'm looking for an
ISP that doesn't have that limitation; this is in no way a criticism of
Quicksilver's policies or service. (There, that should do it.)

   Jonathan

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