Neighbour popped over today asking who I'd suggest for broadband (he's
on a dial-up BT connection).

From what he's said his surfing habits aren't going to change
significantly (but we all thought that?) it's more a case of "always on"
and freeing up the phone line.

I've pointed a few people to Newnet's website before as they do a Lite
package that looks pretty good value, but as it's a neighbour and I'll
probably be the first port of call if there's any problems, I thought
I'd see if anyone is using them, has used them, and what they think etc?

cheers,
Paul
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Paul Hutchings wrote:
I'm a non-exec director of newnet, but I have installed a few lines for
people and it's an ace, simple, cheap service.

cheers
peter

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In article <435282e9$0$38037$bed64819@news.gradwell.net>,
Peter Gradwell <peter@gradwell.com> wrote:

Thanks Peter, I spotted that on the website.

I've had a couple of replies saying it's reliable/quick so unless any
horror stories come up they look like the favourite at the moment.

cheers,
Paul
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paul@spamcop.net

At 17:42:55 on Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Peter Gradwell <peter@gradwell.com>
wrote in <435282e9$0$38037$bed64819@news.gradwell.net>:

That's good to know, Peter - I shall take a serious look at Newnet. (I
like its Metronet-style structure of "pay for what you use".) Can you
confirm that they don't block access to news.gradwell.net? :-)
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deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
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At 18:54:00 on Sun, 16 Oct 2005, MinusNet <me@privacy.net> wrote in
<435293ab$0$33626$892e7fe2@authen.white.readfreene ws.net>:

I am deeply impressed by your detailed and logical argument, which has
totally convinced me.

(MUST not play with trolls ... MUST not play with trolls ...)
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Molly Mockford
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
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"Molly Mockford" <nospamnobody@mollymockford.me.uk> wrote in message
news:Bk8Y12DTLpUDFwlo@molly.mockford...
But Metronet have an upper limit of usage, beyond which you dont pay
any extra, newnet dont appear to have that safety net.

In article <43529cac$0$38041$5a6aecb4@news.aaisp.net.uk>,
Ian Stocks <nospam@testbox2.co.uk> wrote:

Indeed. Metronet is definitely worth looking at.

--
Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK.

Krustov wrote:
heh. I spent this afternoon writing new usenet pages actually. Now at
the above url.

cheers
peter

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Molly Mockford wrote:
No :-)

I'll also find out about the upper limit (have just emailed relevant
bod) and report back.

peter

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On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:57:23 +0100, Peter Gradwell
<peter@gradwell.com> scrawled:

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Stuart @ SJW Electrical

Please Reply to group

Lurch <usenet@sjwelectrical.co.uk>:
He meant `the above URL (with a nice slash appended to it)'.

b.

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At 20:26:42 on Sun, 16 Oct 2005, MinusNet <me@privacy.net> wrote in
<4352a95e$0$41011$892e7fe2@authen.white.readfreene ws.net>:

Had lunch with him on Thursday.

(MUST not play with trolls ... MUST not play with trolls ...)
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Molly Mockford
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
(My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever.)

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:57:23 +0100, [Peter Gradwell] said :-

What is ?

Perhaps you'd like to test it first.

http://www.gradwell.com/products/usenet.php

just doesn't work.

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:59:01 +0100, [Peter Gradwell] said :-

I must say - you inspire no confidence whatever on this product.

Perhaps you should have said nothing _until_ you've checked.

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 17:28:16 +0100, Paul Hutchings <paul@spamcop.net>
wrote:

Paul,

Having just signed up to our good selves yourself I'm surprised you
didn't point him in our direction!

I think £14.99 incl. VAT isn't bad value for a 2Mbps service.

Jake

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:21:54 +0100, MinusNet <me@privacy.net> wrote:


So I take it you haven't used ours then.

Fair enough, it has a 1GB cap, but that's pretty normal for that
price.

There are no port restrictions and a static IP address comes as
standard.

"Peter Gradwell" <peter@gradwell.com> wrote in message
news:4352a26d$0$38046$bed64819@news.gradwell.net.. .
IE6 after 5 mins view source shows

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

with a pulsing 99.9% loading bar in IE6

so i tried FireFox

Firefox pops up an alert "Redirection limit for this URL exceeded. Unable to
load the requested page. This may be caused by cookies that are blocked."

IE6 was still trying so i closed it.

Mark

The web site talks about 'buying extra data', so perhaps there's a
limit that requires to user intervention to continue ?

They are, though they seem to be falling behind rather.

Firstly why do they charge different amounts for 500/1M/2M ? AIUI BT
Wholesale's price is no longer based upon connection speed ?

Secondly the connection charge is rather high at £70, where as other
ISPs have tracked BT's price reduction.

I'm looking for an ISP for my parents, they will consume less than
1GB/month, but their line length is 800 metres, so it's very likely
they could have a 2MB service. They won't consider anything above
£15/m, Metronet's 11:75/m deal would be ideal if it was 2Megs rather
than 500 k !

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:56:29 +0100, MinusNet <me@privacy.net> wrote:


LMAO

Whatever.