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It has been brought to our attention by a customer that there is a trojan virus currently doing the rounds. It comes in the form of a supposed warning from the police about illegal downloading etc. and asking for a payment into an account.
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It occurred to me after reading an article about the quality and speed of internet in the UK that, from personal experience here in Spain, we don't actually do so bad - perhaps with the exception to pricing.
The article related that UK broadband subscribers at best have a 27% shortfall in the internet speed they're paying for and 60% at worst! That is appalling. The worst offenders in this scenario are Sky and TalkTalk (Tiscali) and the best is PlusNet. Whilst I was with Telefonica on 3M, it rarely, if ever, went below 2M so it was on a par with the best in the UK (30%) and that was on ancient copper cable that doesn't like ADSL compared to the fibre-optic systems of the UK. My time with Europa 6M internet was even better with speeds rarely dipping to 5M which is better than the UK best at 15% shortfall. My current provider, Telecable (Santa Pola Cable), provides me with 4M internet for a monthly fee of €21. Telecable seem to be one of the providers here that are bucking the trend. Why? Well, my 4M internet is actually running closer to 7M because they are trialing an upgrade without increasing the cost to the subscriber!! I wouldn't normally recommend a wireless service provider above a landline one because most of them try to make it do things it's not supposed to do but these guys just seem to want to make it work. No, this isn't meant to be an advert for Telecable but more about my experience with internet providers but, they do seem to be one the big players need to look out for. I have previously used Telefonica and Europa and found them to be very reliable, it''s the price point and the fact you can tailor the services to what you want. I operate my own VoIP service so the only thing I really need is internet. I don't need the phone line that comes with traditional ADSL which incurs an unnecessary financial penalty as nobody offers 'blind' ADSL apart from Vodafone but that prospect can be painful and quite unreliable. Blind ADSL is simply having internet sent down a phone line without having a telephone connection. In conclusion following my experiences of broadband/ADSL here in Spain is that the quality is far better than that reported in the UK so in that respect you can expect to pay more. OK, it's not a very scientific experiment but it is my personal experience. If you want Internet but don't want to pay a monthly rental, then we have the product designed just for you. Now you can have the convenience of 4Mbps hi-speed broadband internet when you want it and without the need for a phone line. If you rent out holiday homes then this is a great addition for your property to increase its desirability. We can even supply you with a telephone as well so not only can you have PAYG Internet without a phone line, you can also have a PAYG telephone as well - without having a phone line!?! (yes, you read it right). So, if you would like hi-speed broadband internet and/or a telephone without the monthly fees, please contact us now! For all clients who have, or were considering tooway satellite internet need to be aware of the following important information.
Tooway have recently changed all customers Internet Presence (IP) addresses to UK rather than Italian (the tooway ground station is sited in Turin). This appears to have caused severe problems with those using VoIP services as your signal has to travel a considerably longer distance before reaching the public internet system. This means that the quality of VoIP services has been adversely affected. I can only apologise to my existing clients, and those already booked, for this issue. It is outside my control and can only be remedied by tooway reversing their decision on IP addressing. From what is being experienced, it appears the signal is being beamed through another satellite to reach a base station in UK or it's being routed through a Proxy Server. I am waiting for a response from tooway as to how they propose to honour their assurances that their system is VoIP compatible when it clearly isn't following these recent changes. In view of these issues, I can only seriously recommend the Hylas Satellite option for those who wish to have the telephone service added, as their ground station is based at Goonhilly in the UK so you should not experience these issues. For those interested, Goonhilly was originally established in 1962 and the first dish was built to link with Telstar. |
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