any pipex users might want to be aware that thier provider (well most of it) has been taken over by tiscali, there has been (and it may still be ongoing) an effort to migrate customers from tiscali to pipex. At best this means paying pipex prices (at the higher end of the market) for tiscali quality of service (at just about the bottom of the market). At worst it means totally f*cked up connections.

I would strongly advise any customers of pipex or the providers they bought out (nildram.f2s, switch2,toucan,bulldog) to start planning thier migrations ASAP.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/28/tiscali_pipex_migrations/

I have been with pipex for many years.  I have four sites with pipex, one at our main offices, and 3 at collegues offices.

We have all noticed recently that the connections are dropping at times, and we also notice a speed drop.  However.....Our main office connection was only a 2M connection due to pricing issues on a business line, and since the last drop we seem to have jumped upto the 8M service.

I believe we have been shifted around on the network, and will have to wait and see how it goes...




I have always been happy with Pipex.  The main reason for using them was that a static IP was free, and we use these to create LAN to LAN VPN's between all our locations.

plugwash wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2008, 10:00pm:



Yea, it was the traffic I was concerned about, and I have noticed a difference at home recently.  I have not noticed a difference at work, but I do not use the work computers for anything too bandwidth hungry, and not usually during peak (evening) times.