zoo_music_girl: (yet another doll)
zoo_music_girl ([personal profile] zoo_music_girl) wrote2006-04-28 11:56 am

Recommend an ISP?

I'm leaving Plus. I'm thinking of going to Zen, as I've heard such good things about them, but they are bloody expensive (£24.99 inc VAT per month) compared to everyone else. Given my history of connection problems I want an ISP with stellar customer service and support.

Any other recommendations before I move? It's costing me a £14.99 deferred migration fee to Plus so I want to get it right this time.

I'm actually really surprised Plus are giving me a MAC code at all, as I've just been badly Local Loop Unbundled.

Cheers.

[identity profile] steer.livejournal.com 2006-04-29 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
The issue was one between the semi-competent 123-reg sysadmin and the semi-competent spam stopers at the university. 123-reg mail relays keep getting on spam blacklists because they sometimes relay spam. spam stoppers block blacklisted IP addresses.

123-reg people say "we relay mail, some of it is spam -- we can't help being on blacklists sometimes"

spam people say "they are on blacklists -- if you give us IP numbers of servers we can whitelist them for you."

It took me two weeks to persuade 123-reg to provide me the IP nos of their servers and I had to ask them a few times to get themselves removed from the spam blacklist.

A few months after that they changed to new servers which ended up on blacklists.