"One Reg reader wrote: "This is absolutely killing our sales office in London. We currently have an entire sales team crowded round a laptop fighting over access to a Vodafone dongle!"."

This kind of thing never ceases to amaze me. As someone who works in ISP support (not saying which one), I am shocked by comments like the one above. If your entire business depends on the internet.... HAVE A BACKUP CONNECTION!!! preferably ON A DIFFERENT CONNECTION MEDIA IF AVAILABLE!!!

Our ISP backbone runs on mainly antiquated copper wire and PSTN exchanges as Demarc points... if one of these goes down, you won't get any work done.

GET A BLOODY BACKUP SYSTEM IN PLACE!!!! Oh and if BT want to maybe do something about the state of the UK broadband network (Specifically in Scotland) that would be a help too.

/RANT