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A&A (a UK ISP) today donated £2940 to the Mozilla foundation. It's the amount that ISPA membership would have cost them if they were members which of course they are not:

https://twitter.com/aaisp/status/1146803916853645314

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Straight to the point. Excellent work from A&A. I am currently with Zen and as they are a member of ISPA I'm going to terminate my account and move to A&A next month.

They're very good, however do watch out if you're a heavy user, there is no "unlimited" for A&A. I think I have 250GB per month, and there's a scheme to carry over a fraction to discourage you burning everything on the last few days (e.g. if you have 100GB of quota left on a 250GB quota, you start the next month with 300GB) but if you're the sort of person who routinely Torrents a whole TV series to "see if I like it" and then throws it away after one episode because you didn't then you are likely to exhaust the smaller quotas before a month end and A&A's prices start to get steep.

I watch a bunch of Netflix, Youtube, play some online games, never came close to my quota, but I know people using 1TB+ per month on other ISPs so YMMV.

I pull 750Gb a month max across 5 people so this is fine. Thanks for the heads up however.

That's worth knowing. Also, as a long-term subscriber to A&A for home/business I can recommend them as being very good as an ISP, too.

Having switched to a&a at work recently, they seem to be operating several levels above the more mainstream business DSL providers we've used.

Their control panel is incredibly functional – containing detailed logs of pretty much everything. They also provide a lot of more technical line control options that you'd otherwise have to phone up and convince somebody to get changed.

We haven't had the pleasure of needing to phone them up yet, but from what I've read about them they're a technically very capable team.

I've subscribed my mother to their FFTC service, upgrading her from ADSL. She lives in the middle of nowhere, and BT have historically cocked up an awful lot with the wiring. Their team know a hell of a lot more about networking than I do, _and_ know who in BT to get on to in order to make sure that the wires get reconnected the right way around (which they weren't!).

I really can't recommend them enough. Sure, it's expensive, but a) I like the feeling that I'm contributing to things I agree with, and b) the people who work there deserve to earn a decent wage. Insofar as broadband has a "first class" product, they offer it.

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