Beware of claims about 24 megabyte broadband. I was reading a few articles over the weekend about this. The bottom line is that very few people indeed can get anywhere even remotely close to this speed, unless they happen to live right next door to the telephone exchange. In fact, one of the articles goes on to say that in many cases, the signals travel almost a kilometre before they actually leave the telephone exchange building. George. > -----Original Message----- > From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Beasley > Sent: 28 November 2005 09:44 > To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [access-uk] Re: Service Providers > > Peter, take a look at www.bethere.com. I doubt very much > that they are operating in Helensburgh just yet, but they > claim to be offering download speeds of up to 24 megs. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Logue" <peterlogue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 12:17 AM > Subject: [access-uk] Re: Service Providers > > > > Hi Andrew, > > Thanks for that info. I have logged onto the plusnet site. They are > > adequate, I suppose, but I still didn't like the fact that you are > > limited. > > I also checked into Freeserve and, again, found that you > are limited. > > Then I came across Telewest and was very surprised. I liked them a > > lot. They offered TV services, telephone services, and, hooray, > > unlimited broadband at a very resonable price. Unfortunately, they > > didn't cover Helensburgh on the firth of Clyde. I then checked on > > Virgin, which possibly does do Helensburgh, but they too limit the > > user. I'm used to 10MB download speed and no limit, so I might find > > being limited quite restrictive. At the moment it looks like > > Freeserve, the wana do people will get my phone call later > next week. > > And what is this... Wanna do, anyway. Are they Australian? > Some kind > > of cross between a wallaby and a kangaroo? > > Yes, I'm moving to Scotland. Well, someone has to take over from > > Rangers manager, Alex McLeish and I aim to fill out an application. > > > > Peter > > > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > ** and in the Subject line type > > ** unsubscribe > > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > > ** immediately-following link:- > > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > > ** or send a message, to > > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > > > > > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > ** or send a message, to > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq