Today (or so British Telecom tells me) my net connection will be cut off as I am moving to a new, cheaper ISP - Tiscalli. According to Tiscalli I could be waiting an entire 28 days to get my connection back! However they said your usually connected to them within a week of requesting broadband from them.

The package isn't an upgrade in any way, shape or form. It's a 2 MB down 256 Kb up package which is what I have at the moment however as at the moment I'll only be getting 1 MB down even though I pay for two. This is because BT are complete idiots and have not upgraded my local exchange. If I was stuck out in the countryside in rural Britain fair enough but I'm in the Midlands! BT are also the scum responsible for my poor 256 Kb upload speed. BT own all ADSL lines in the UK to the best of my knowledge. They lease lines out to companies but if BT hasn't upgraded my exchange and insist on limiting all of their customers to 256 Kb upload speeds then there is nothing that can be done about it for they are a leading monopoly for ADSL.

On a different topic, my server is up and running 24/7 and has been for over three days now, trouble is it wont be accessible whilst I swap ISP . It currently runs, Apache with PHP, MySQL, Python, Perl on the web server and provides the following services FTP, IRC, Mailman Mailing List, SSH, Postfix/Sendmail (Email) and Webmin (Remote Administration. I also use it to keep an IRC client (irssi) and a Bittorrent client (ctorrent which took around 10 mins to compile on the 275 MHzARM processor lol) open. It's proving to be very useful indeed .

The thought of no web access for a week is scary, the thought of no web access for 28 days is the stuff nightmares are made from.

I'll be back when my connection is, until then, bye!



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