| From: | Dave Fisher |
| Date: | 21 Jun 2001 at 16:07:16 |
| Subject: | Re: What's going on? |
Hi Neil,
On 21-Jun-01, You Wrote About The Subject Re: [amigactive] Re: What's going on?,
> Gareth Griffiths said,
>> Yeah? I've heard a lot of bad things about BTOpenworld, which was why I
>> was looking at Zen ADSL (http://www.zenadsl.com)
BTOpenworld are WORSE than bad, trust me I use em :) Avoid at all costs.
> Zen are reckoned to be good, but I think it's £50+VAT = £58.85. Claranet
> are £50 inc VAT.
Yeah I'm looking at Claranet for when I switch in 8 months :) Zen & Nildram
both have very good reputations.
>> but thats £10 more expensive,
> You get what you pay for. BTOpenwoe is the cheapest ADSL service
> available, and it shows. The only good thing about the mail server and
> translucent proxy is that they are slightly more reliable than the news
> server :-O
Ahem, translucent proxies :) We have 3 now. Well ok, 1 translucent and 2
opaque :)
It was funny, last Saturday morning news broke that the TP had been disabled
and browsing was flying along. Not long after we all said it had gone back
to how it was. BTO were questioned on the Monday morning and it turns out
the TP was disabled for approx 5 minutes on Saturday as there was a fault
which they thought was related to it. Yet in that time half the forum users
spotted it was off. Sad really, shows how shite it is, but as its beneficial
for customers and they have so few complaints (as no-one knows its even
there), they refuse to do anything about it.
As for the mailserver, so long as you don't mind a mail from one BTO user to
another taking in the region of 19 hours, external mail taking close to 36
hours and not to mention all the ones that never even arrive, then you'll be
quite happy. ;)
>> and is irrelevant anyway as I can't get ADSL yet (although when RADSL is
>> available I should be able to)
> Choose your ISP carefully, you will be committed for at least a year.
And as it stands have to pay £150 install and be retested should you choose
to switch after the contract expires.
Best Regards,
*Dave Fisher - Team AMIGA*
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