[sdfjkl]

Yes, they are more expensive than the main stream providers. And they're worth it, just like it is worth paying more for a good chair and a good keyboard if you use those a lot.

I use the internet a lot and I care about it, so I gladly pay a little more to get a good one that isn't throttled, censored, monitored (at least not at ISP level) and poorly run. I also like to support an ISP that campaigns (and acts) for things that matter to me, such as net neutrality.

My only worry is that A&A is without equal in the UK, and if they ever go away, I'd be forced to lower my expectations a lot. Most other ISPs have caved in to the creeping censorship and offer pretty awful service/support to boot (when I was on BeO2fonica it took them 10 days to fix a broken DSL line, which is how I ended up with A&A).

[nagrom]

Look for enta-net re-sellers. There's a lot of them, and the connection that you get seems to work pretty well. I've noticed 6 hours of downtime in the past 8 years from EN resellers and they're usually one-man bands that you can call up and speak to.