Jan: <snip>

The main reason I suggest Black Cat Networks is that I am very happy with their service (more so than any other ISP I have used) and so are other Aluggers who use them and Jonathan (who owns/works for/runs Black Cat) is in the pub every month for the 2nd Thursday Norwich Alug pub meet.

[1] http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk/

This sounds attractive to me, I would be quite inclined to go locally with a company that is known to be "Linux aware". It seems to me that the ADSL service they offer might be a bit more than what I was looking for -- e.g. I don't think I need a static IP; my main use of the connection would be shuttling files back and forth between home and work (via scp / rsync etc.), installing Debian packages, and occasional general surfing / email checking etc.

But then again, a nicely working connection to the rest of the Internet may well be worth the additional costs (mainly the setup fee)... </snip>

Hi Jan,

I've got a bt line here, and when exchange was upgraded to adsl I splashed out and got firstly my dsl from blackcatnetworks and secondly a Netgear DG834G router. Any extra money I spent has been worth it time and time again as I have had a reliable broadband connection for a year now, and have had to make no support phone calls.

Jenny