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British ISPs (www.zen.co.uk)

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Sky and Virgin aren't British owned, so who is? British Telecom and:

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

can anyone speak from experience of these providers

specifically re. web blocking, dpi protocol blocking, self hosting

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I'm with Zen now and my experience has been mostly great. I haven't done any of the more technical things you've mentioned so I can't comment on that, but in general they've been consistently reliable and fast for me. The only issue I've had has been due to a fault with the router a few months ago but the customer support sorted it within a day by walking me through how to factory reset the router.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Well cityfibre are the network providers and you need some one to act as an isp on the network to connect you, I went with noone internet as they provided a static ipv4 and ipv6 without cgnat, then they got bought/merged/billed not sure which by hometelecom. New customers don't get a static ipv4, existing do. I haven't noticed any type of blocking but that might just be my isp.

Most of the main providers do cgnat, mid contract price rises and generally questionable things. The one thing I was a bit concerned about was the pppoe connection rather than DHCP, but is doesn't seem to have made much difference.