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http://www.aaisp.net/

No filters.

AAISP are awesome and any self-respecting geek should be using them but they would have no ability to affect filters of this kind, only the optional porn filter, which they do disable.

Yes they do. The internet isn't a simple star based network where every access point can be controlled. It's a dynamic system (powered by BGP). Router advertisments can fuck up any content filtering instantly if desired.

Also read their policy here:

http://aaisp.net/kb-broadband-realinternet.html

DPI is impossible on multiple tier 1 line level unless the laws of physics have suddenly changed.

I really wanted to go with AAISP when I moved house recently, but they're just too expensive. To add a 16Mb unlimited/unmetred Sky Broadband connection to my Sky package cost an extra £3/month, whereas AAISP want £25/month for 100GB plus a £50 setup fee. I understand that Sky are subsidising their Internet connection with the rest of their package, but still it's just too much of a difference. I wanted AAISP mostly for the native IPv6, but I can get decent free tunneled IPv6 from Hurricane Electric anyway.

[edit]: And any blocks Sky puts in place can easily be routed around via my VPS anyway.

It's no so much that AAISP are expensive, rather that's the going rate for a true Internet connection these days.

I'm with Goscomb.net, native IPv6, proper unhampered Internet connectivity and clueful admins ( they did an rDNS for me in five minutes ) but unlike AAISP they don't use metered billing, but capped throughput. Might be worth checking if that works better for you.

How much extra is your VPS costing per month? Be sure to add that onto your Sky cost assessment.

Interesting. I will take a look when our sky contract runs out.

You can get a VPS for $5/month from Digital Ocean with 1TB of bandwidth that is ideal for these purposes. I use the $10/month 2TB version, but only because they gave me $1000 of free credit for pointing out some security issues in their login process a few months back.

Well we know how much your principles are worth.

Secondly, I've done the same move and it cost £16 to migrate (regrade was required as it was on LLU). I spend £55/month and for that I get the line rental, 300Gb. It's a tiny proportion of my income for a service. I pay way more for gas/electricity.

My house has 3 children, a wife, 3 iPads, an XBox 360, Three laptops, two wifi connected televisions, 2 servers and a NAS. I barely touch 100Gb.

It's fine.

If I wanted to spend an extra ~£30 a month on my principles, spending it on a broadband connection wouldn't be top of my priorities.

Don't they abide by the blocks on The Pirate Bay website and such? How come they're still trading?

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