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Company blog · aa.net.uk/etc/newssystemspolitics
A&A is the company blog at aa.net.uk, writing about systems and politics. Since 2012, 44 different Hacker News readers have linked it 59 times, most often “A UK ISP which is fighting against censorship”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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59mentions?
2recommend?
44HN people?
2012–2026first – last linked?
Rarely recommended · 2 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link A&A's site for this UK ISP's no-filtering policy, IPv6 service and technical notes such as its BGP and RPKI post. Most comments praise the ISP itself rather than the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /12 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2019-07-05
- /kb-broadband-realinternet.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-12-29
- A UK ISP which is fighting against censorship3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-06-26
- BGP and RPKI3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-04-18
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-16
- UK sanctions law, A&A, and Domain blocking2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-06
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-30
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-30
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-10
What Hacker News says?
It may be worth looking at the AAISP L2TP Service[1]. They are a domestic ISP, so I guess iplayer should work over the service. [1]: https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/l2tp-service/
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on “Apple's iCloud+ “VPN””Submitted A UK ISP which is fighting against censorship as a story · 166 points
HN discussionOr use http://aa.net.uk which does not have filtering at all and has native IPv6, is run by people who care for their craft. I've been a very happy customer.
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on “Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets”Submitted BGP and RPKI as a story · 108 points
HN discussionAndrew’s & Arnold (UK-based ISP) actually are compliant with XKCD 806! https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/why-choose-aaisp/
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on “AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits”Submitted UK sanctions law, A&A, and Domain blocking as a story · 22 points
HN discussionMy ISP actually supports this[0], though I haven’t had cause to use it yet - they are also very reliable! [0]: https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/why-choose-aaisp/
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on “AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits”Submitted The ISP against censorship – AAISP: 'Your packets. Our people.' as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInteresting response to this by UK ISP Andrews & Arnold: https://www.aa.net.uk/etc/news/bgp-and-rpki/
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on “Is BGP Safe Yet?”Submitted Aaisp: Our Network as a story · 1 points
HN discussionDoes it? I don’t recall giving A&A permission to deal with my data in any nefarious way, i’d doubt they would anyway. https://www.aa.net.uk/
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on “NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew”Admittedly in the UK, but the ISP I use don't have a problem with people running servers: http://www.aa.net.uk/
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on “Now That It’s in the Broadband Game, Google Flip-Flops on Network Neutrality”If you're seeing frequent drops in connection, contact their support. [0] They're very good at getting openreach to fix problems. Another option for you in particular (if you're willing to keep paying for both virgin and AAISP) is to set up a router with multi-WAN support which can load balance between both wans and handle failures, instead of swapping manually. [0]: http://aa.net.uk/support.html
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on “ADSL over wet string”Yes and no. The market works in the UK. If you don't want a "hand holding" ISP that filters and DPIs your connection you have a range of good alternatives e.g. http://aa.net.uk/ The shittiest providers in the UK are usually the vertically integrated players (Sky, Virgin, BT) that optimise their business around selling bundles to consumers (TV, mobile, net and movie subs). Fortunately, thanks to local loop unbundling…
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on “The end of the level playing field”I get mine from my isp: http://aa.net.uk/telecoms.html - there are other IPv6 providers out there and they make life so much easier. :)
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on “IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10% deployment”Definitely true neither they nor we should have to do it. Fortunately, there are still some good ISPs left in the UK. I'm with Andrews & Arnold and they're staunch supporters of an uncensored net ( http://www.aa.net.uk/kb-broadband-realinternet.html ). They're also just generally awesome - dual homed static IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, a geek answers the phone if you ever have reason to call, you can choose your backha…
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on “Google disables SSL search at BT’s request”Nextgrid, though at the moment it's still a work in progress (building an entire telco core network from scratch by yourself takes a looooong time), but in the meantime you can get the numbers from my carrier partner directly: https://aa.net.uk/telecoms.html Those are UK mobile numbers, with SIP for voice and webhooks for texts, and all lookup tools I've found recognise their numbers as "Three" (a mobile carrier in…
Comment linking /telecoms.html
on “Mailinator launches Disposable SMS”The term "communications provider" is defined under UK law, though the practical meaning of the term is less clear: http://aa.net.uk/legal-cp.html
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on “Details of UK website visits 'to be stored for year'”These ISPs are using DS-Lite, Dual-Stack Lite. https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/top... (this isn't a purely Juniper thing, but they have nice diagrams on their documentation) It's a kind of carrier grade NAT with 4over6 baked in. Depending on the version of this they are relying on your modem to perform encap/decap of 4to6, hence when you switch to modem mode or your own router you fall back…
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on “More than 1/3 of all access to Google is now over IPv6”I am rarely in the same country very long and use https://www.aa.net.uk/ in the UK for a UK 07 number that can retrieve SMS and that I can use a VOIP phone with. As far as I'm aware they're the only service in the UK allowing this with 07 numbers.
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on “Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do”The ISP appears to be “AAISP”, at https://www.aa.net.uk/ , for anyone else in the market for a UK ISP soon.
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on “Literally Suffocating in Meeting Rooms, A Little”A lot of services reject numbers from known VoIP providers as a way to reject fraud (and I guess prevent people from defeating number-based marketing/advertising tracking by using unique numbers?). You can work around that by using lesser-known providers. In the UK, Andrews & Arnold ( https://www.aa.net.uk ) provide UK mobile numbers which don't seem to be rejected by anything.
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on “It’s time to stop using SMS for security”AAISP have operated a time-based bandwidth tariff for many years: http://aa.net.uk/broadband-prices.html 9am-6pm Mon-Friday is charged at 1.25-10x (ratio depending on the technology/broadband type) the price of bandwidth outside of this peak time. Granted, AAISP customers tend to be more technical and are willing to pay more for an clueful ISP.
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on “Leaked Comcast docs prove 300GB cap has nothing to do with network congestion”> We offer both the slower ADSL services and the faster VDSL (fibre to the cabinet) services, FTTP and G.FAST services where available. The package is available with a copper pair or you can use with a phone line you buy from another Openreach-based provider such as BT. https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/home1/
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on “I tried to cancel Virgin Media broadband contract”See if Andrews & Arnolds would work wherever you move to. I've been with them for a few months now and don't think I'll want to switch anyone else afterwards. https://www.aa.net.uk/ Checking an address on their website will require active BT phone line at the address, but if you call them up they can check the area for you (I did that). I was asking their salesperson about static IPs addresses and all sorts. Answere…
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on “I tried to cancel Virgin Media broadband contract”In the UK, use this: https://www.aa.net.uk/ I'm not affiliated with them in any way. They just have a great reputation for good technical knowledge, privacy, and support.
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on “I tried to cancel Virgin Media broadband contract”For UK numbers I can also recommend these guys: https://www.aa.net.uk/telecoms.html Their technical support is actual tech support, with tech guys that won't take any bullshit, especially if you have 2FA (TOTP-based) on your account. The numbers are not recognised as VoIP and will work with every single service (I have yet to find one that will fail). I believe they are partnered with a local carrier that does some…
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on “Listen to a SIM-Jacking, Account-Stealing Ransom”UK equivalent: http://aa.net.uk/ "We have no so called black boxes to covertly monitor traffic and/or pass traffic monitoring to the authorities or anyone else. Obviously the law is such that we may have to add such black boxes, but we would resist as far as possible. We may even find we are not allowed to change this web page if ever that happens. However, I, as director, am happy to answer direct questions on this…
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on “Sonic.net CEO: We Delete User Logs After Two Weeks. Your ISP Should, Too.”> Is it within the terms of service for your ISP to do so? I That depends on which ISP you choose. It is not really our concern what you do with your internet connection any more than it is the concern of the power company what you do with the electricity they supply ... However, we ask that you do not use the service for anything illegal http://aa.net.uk/legal-aup.html
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on “Why Tim Berners-Lee is no friend of Facebook”A&A: > We don't provide a filtering service to restrict or limit access to anything on the Internet. When you take services from us you are opting out of any filtering services. The Internet has a lot of good and useful things, but it also has a lot of unpleasant and offensive things. Don't blame us for what you find on the Internet.[...] > We do not have, in our network, any equipment installed to filter access to…
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on “UK ISP group names Mozilla 'Internet Villain' for supporting 'DNS-over-HTTPS'”
