Tim Couper wrote:

I'd be happy to meet up in the London area - Paddington was a convenient spot .. but maybe it isn't now ...

If it's in the evening, I'd be up for trying to make it along. :-) Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

Stuart Bishop wrote:

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On 23/03/2004, at 1:03 AM, Chris Withers wrote:

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Tim Couper wrote:

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I'd be happy to meet up in the London area - Paddington was a convenient spot .. but maybe it isn't now ...

If it's in the evening, I'd be up for trying to make it along.

And if you have another one in May, count me in. I'll be in the UK for three months and would like to catch up with the locals.

Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced dialup ISP? I'll be connected about 12 hours a day for three months. Extra points for POP's outside of London.

- -- Stuart Bishop <stuart@stuartbishop.net> http://www.stuartbishop.net/

Welcome to the mother country ;-) As for dial-up ISPs, you may have hit a snag. Unlike in dear old Oz all telephone calls are charged on a timed basis in these parts. So instead of dialling up for 20 cents and then paying a flat rate to your ISP most casual use dial-up plans simply use a premium rate number and charge you by the minute. For occassional use I've found Intelynx (http://www.intelynx.net/intelynx.htm) useful and reliable. You can get fixed rate dial up from the major ISPs (BT/Yahoo, Freeserve, AOL, etc.) but they almost universally insist that you nominate a single number to dial from and that it be a BT line. The general price for these is around £15 a month. It is ok if you are a single location and usually only takes a week or so to provision. Virtually all of the ISPs I have encountered cover the whole country. For an exhaustive list try; http://directory.google.com/Top/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Business_and_... Regards, Andy -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the desk of Andrew J Todd esq - http://www.halfcooked.com/

Andy Robinson wrote:

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You can get fixed rate dial up from the major ISPs (BT/Yahoo, Freeserve, AOL, etc.) but they almost universally insist that you nominate a single number to dial from and that it be a BT line. The general price for these is around £15 a month.

Broadband is about £25 per month unless you are in a remote rural area - most people now pay the extra tenner.

Neighbours with unsecured wireless networks are now a fast-growing and very cheap way to get online :-)

- Andy

True, but the problem with broadband is that it is usually a minimum 12 month commitment, and Stuart said he's only here for 3. Regards, Andy -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the desk of Andrew J Todd esq - http://www.halfcooked.com/

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Toby watson wrote:

On Wednesday, March 24, 2004, at 11:10 am, Andy Todd wrote:

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True, but the problem with broadband is that it is usually a minimum 12 month commitment, and Stuart said he's only here for 3. [...] Virgin do a 'no tie in', month to month service. £25.

IIRC, I saw a cheaper monthly deal than that, and that was quite a while back now, so probably worth shopping around a bit. John