Steven Sumpter <ssumpter@gmail.com> wrote:
A fair assumption in my experience too, but wrong. I was using a
PowerBook I'd brought along with me. I run a cache at home to speed up
web browsing and avoid redownloading the same patches multiple times,
so it was a trivial bit of ssh tunneling to use that instead, and
oddly enough, the page came up just fine now NTL's caches were out of
the picture.

And this is why I pay a bit extra to use Zen, even though I'm told I'm
"wasting" my money for not going for the cheapest option.

Well, NTL still looks completely broken in Nottingham.

3Mb/s is quite nice, but I think I'd rather have 1Mb/s that works.

--
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the
planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a
bicycle with three speeds.
- Quentin Crisp

Peter wrote:

to at the moment. The best ISP I ever used was xs4all (xs4all.nl) in
the Netherlands. They cost about twice as much as everyone else, but
the service was fantastic, they know what Linux and home networks are,
and they regularly fight government, spammers and scientologists for
online rights. Unfortunately they don't operate in the UK :-(

probably won't get it until the end of net year. As I said, NTL seems
to have improved dramatically between the first time I used them in 2002
and this time since July 2004. They even answer the phone quickly at
the moment!

Steve.

You mean it worked OK !

read again he said is it was fantastic, your just jealous.

Reg Edwards wrote:
No, I mean it was fantastic. It never had any downtime, always got
maximum speed, gave me a free router, answered the phone instantly and
were prepared to put up with my rubbish Dutch or talk in English when
needed, provided excellent news group servers, gave me an account on a
unix computer on their network, knew what linux was, provided IPv6, had
the option of 8Mb ADSL in 2003...

The list goes on.

I wish I was back on their service!

In article <KicUe.5846$oq4.547@newsfe5-win.ntli.net>, ssumpter@gmail.com
says...
reason why it don't at the moment is because there is not enough Linux
users to bother with.

Don't get me wrong, I like Linux or would do if I can get it to do what
I want it to do.

My ISP gives us a choice, if I wanted to I can use their cache, I would
not go with a ISP who uses a cache, I had enough problems years ago with
Freeserve and their cache.

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 20:56:09 +0100, AD C <graphi47uk@y.a.h.o.o.co.uk>
wrote:

there may well be. There are probably some good people out binge
drinking tonight too, but the reputation of many tends to be afffected
by the behaviour of the few.

Phil
--
Remember - Global Warming is only a weather forecast :-)

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In article <nmo3i1h78948j5ckrs267ul9flgq7gr4kl@4ax.com>,
phil.thompson@spamcop.net says...


anyone who binge drink is a prat.

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:42:04 +0100, AD C <graphi47uk@y.a.h.o.o.co.uk>
wrote:

QED.

Phil
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Remember - Global Warming is only a weather forecast :-)

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:42:04 +0100, AD C <graphi47uk@y.a.h.o.o.co.uk>
wrote:


According to current "wisdom", 2 pints of strong (5%) beer, 2 large
glasses of wine or 2 double shorts is classed as binge drinking. So
that includes everybody except the most dedicated teetotaller, I
guess.

Jake