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In article <slrn8lkgt4.79a.tony@realh.co.uk>,
	{tony}@realh.co.uk (Tony Houghton) writes:

> I don't know about Freeserve, FWIH they're quite good (so far), but a
> lot of cheapskate services get into a vicious circle, because it's so
> hard to get a line, once you've got it you'll keep it as long as
> possible on the off chance you might need it later on.

As a redhotant subscriber, I know all about ultra-cheap unmetered
access.  Yes it can be hard to get a line at certain times of day.
So I structure my working so that any longer periods online are in
the morning or at night, and use demon when I can't get RHA.

Having said that, I did a remote backup of 20Mb of data over RHA
this afternoon.

> Bandwidth isn't the problem though, if you're just idling with the odd
> ping, you won't be using any. It's hogging the modem that's the problem.

Precisely.  And RHA actually seems to offer rather better ISDN  bandwidth
than demon - on average.  The only reasons to keep demon are reliability
and a decent newsfeed.

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