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Quoting Simon Williams <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
I've been with Eclipse for ages. They're cheap, they provide static IPs, their customer service is in this country and has been very good in my experience. They have had mixed reviews at times, but I think that was because they were getting customers faster than they could cope with. I'm almost certain that all of my issues have been due to the useless ADSL hardware I was using. Those that weren't I put down to the line/exchange. Last time I checked you had a choice between fast connection with quota or slower connection with no quota. I'm on a 10Gb/month quota and surprisingly we only go over it when I do mass updates. It works out much cheaper for me to buy a bit more when this happens, rather than go with an unlimited package all year round. And if I don't buy more the connection is just slowed to 512kbps or something, which is no real disaster for me.
If you're running a debian variant, you could always set up apt-cache on a system that's on your network and use that for updates. I run it on one of my servers and use it as an apt-proxy for both Debian (etch and Lenny) and Ubuntu (Hardy, Jaunty and Karmic at the moment!). It means you only download packages once for your entire network as opposed to for each machine, yet you don't need to replicate the entire mirror.
I'm fairly sure there's a way of doing similar things with YUM etc, so have a dig around.
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