The acid test of "Customer Service" is what sort of response you get
when things go wrong out of hours.

Whilst Broadband-by-wireless is inherently more vulnerable than ADSL
(our signal comes via a couple of masts on exposed hillsides, and the
last hop is from a barn on the next hill), Derbyshire's local operator
Zycomm (www.w3z.co.uk) certainly do try hard when there are problems.

I lost my connection on Boxing Day afternoon this year. Tests during the
afternoon suggested that it was my terminal equipment at fault, and at
10pm that night, the MD himself drove 20 miles with a fully-configured
replacement.

The same guy answered the phone personally on Christmas Day the other
year and got a fault fixed within a couple of hours.

Whilst they wouldn't win prizes on the number of faults per year, proper
customer service does a lot to make up for it - worth considering for
anyone within their Derbyshire catchment area.

John Geddes
Derbyshire

On 30 Dec, 11:28, John Geddes <j...@st4rm4rkassociates.co.uk> wrote:
Well thier prices are well above cable and ADSL, but I suppose it
costs for the equipment which they put into your monthly bill. But the
old saying "you get what you pay for" and it does look like people in
the countryside pay a premium for internet.

"naza" <naza911@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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We pay a premium for most things - but it's a price worth paying to stay as
far away as possible from the crime infested multi-cultural diversity of our
towns and cities.

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:40:19 -0000, "Miser" <profit@othersexpense.com>
wrote:

Are you implying that there is a direct connection between cultural
diversity and crime?
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David Quinton wrote:

There is certainly a connection between some nationalities and crime.

Graham

On 31 Dec 2007, Eeyore wrote

Sure is: ask anybody from a country that gets a lot of English
tourists.

HVS wrote:

I actually had certain East European nationalities in mind. Such as the
Bulgarians and those from the former Yugoslavia.

What kind of crime do you associate with English tourists btw ? Many may
behave badly but how about actual crime ?

Graham

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:00:54 +0000, Eeyore wrote:

So you're not just bigoted against VM,you're equally biased against
Bulgarians and Yugoslavs as well.
You really are a bigot of the highest order aren't you.

Daffy Duck wrote:

Government figures sunshine. You can call them bigots too if you like.

In the meantime I'll call a spade a spade regardless of bloody idiotic PC-ness
by which you would have me gagged and unable to identify those who are more
likely to be criminals.

Graham

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:17:46 +0000, Eeyore wrote:

Fine...then i'll also call a spade a spade.....you're a bigot.

On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 11:09:35 UTC, mymail@hotmail.co.uk wrote:

More comments for the archive...

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Daffy Duck wrote:

"a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion"

What does that have to do with telling the truth ?

You are certainly a bloody fool if you think one mustn't identify known criminal
elements because you might hurt their feelings.

OTOH bloody fools like you are running the country which is why it's so completely
fucked.

Graham

mymail@hotmail.co.uk wrote:

On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:42:20 GMT, Daffy Duck <DD@DaffyDuck.com> wrote:


Racist !!!....I haven't heard the like since Arfur Daly.


Jim.

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Were you watching The (secret) Life of Brian last night ?

It's scary to see how much influence Mary Whitehouse actually had to
suppress 'free speech' issues and actually DID stop it being shown in some
places. The likes of Daffy Duck would suppress anything he considers not to
be 'PC' too. It's the new tyranny from the socialists.

Graham

Eeyore wrote:
Yup..for first time I actually saw most of it end to end..very very
subtle stuff..interspersed with slapstick..


Yup. 'Same as the old boss'..

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And a few more comments for your archive:

No-one has ever asked me (or anyone I know) whether I (they) wanted to live
in a 'multi-cultural' country - and, as it happens, I don't.

Besides which, we do *not* live in an integrated racial Eden. The immigrant
groups live, by and large, in their own communities, each trying to recreate
in Britain the homeland they left behind.

If you want see 'racism' in action, suggest to an Asian father that his
daughter marry a Negro. They consider Africans to be (in the exact words
used by an ex-Ugandan Asian being interviewed on Radio 4 last year)
"Scarcely evolved from apes" and it is a politically correct inconvenient
truth that most Asian parents would rather see their daughters dead than in
such a union.

Immigration has brought about a resurgence of diseases, like TB, that were
considered virtually extinct in the UK until the mass influx began.
Immigration has brought the sort of political corruption that is taken for
granted in the Indian sub-continent. Immigration has brought the sewage of
Eastern Europe to operate child prostitution and white slavery rackets in
our cities, Immigration has brought the horrors of African cannibalism to
our capital city (were you aware that London, according to the Metropolitan
Police, is now something a world centre for a trade in human flesh?)
Immigration has, in fact, brought ruin to this country.

Our children have been debased by a filthy ghetto culture, our institutions
have been debased, our sovereignty destroyed, our morality corrupted, and
our heritage pimped by those who have engineered this social catastrophe for
their own sinister ends.

Who are the real villains in all this? - those who arrive in droves to laugh
at us, and take advantage of a society that is so cowed that it can no
longer defend itself against invasion? - hardly. They are merely seizing an
opportunity that has been presented to them by our own indigenous plotters
and schemers who use mass immigration as a tool in their plan to destroy
this nation by diluting pride and respect for everything that is 'British'.

What we see now are the raging flames of the funeral pyre of which Powell
warned - but, dancing gleefully in the macabre shadows cast by this ghastly
conflagration, are those whose mission it is to deliver the once proud and
free people of Britain, bound and chained, to their masters in the 'European
Union'.

When the last shackle has been forged, they will be rewarded for their
treachery - while we will wear the chains we have allowed them to manacle us
with as we face a bleak existence as inmates of the new European
'super-state' concentration camp.

You miss the point. Ron (mymail, etc...) sets 'No-Archive' on his rants,
so I'm preserving them for posterity by quoting them. Might help some
poor sod he claims to have libelled him one day.

Your post will be archived naturally, so your rants will be saved anyway
by Google.
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On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:30:21 +0000, The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c>
wrote:

Punctuation?


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Miser wrote:

Try doing it the other way round too !

The Africans LOATHE (middle eastern - and Indian) Asians with a vengeance and
then some. Not sure about the far eastern ones.

It's only us whiteys who for the most part get on with all-comers pretty well
actually. Our mistake is to assume everyone else thinks like US and is equally
tolerant !

Graham