<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 March 2013 10:39, Alain Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:addw@phcomp.co.uk" target="_blank">addw@phcomp.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 10:33:40AM +0000, Matthew Walster wrote:<br>
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> I'd say I know 20-30 on Virgin Media, and 10-20 on DSL. The rate of faults<br>
> is roughly equal -- but when it *does* work, by far the superior service is<br>
> obtained through Virgin Media.<br>
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</div>Reliability beats a faster speed (IMHO). If you are out for a day the pain is<br>
far worse than having a slower speed.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed. I've had degraded service or outages far more often with BT than Virgin. YMMV.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> Virgin Media support *is* terrible. I've seen NTL/VM National Ethernet<br>
> installs take over 12 months to provision. However, if the service is<br>
> *working*, I've always had a fantastic service. My only gripe with the<br>
> Virgin service is that they overwrite DNS TTLs, but I'm really clutching at<br>
> straws there.<br>
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</div>Because it is, unfortunately, not a crime to:<br>
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1) not obey RFCs - eg pass the TTL on unchanged.<br>
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2) screw up your config (like leaving a 60 second TTL forever, not just<br>
transition) which encourages the likes of Virgin to do (1).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Trouble is, Virgin intercepts DNS queries so I can't transition to my own resolvers. I don't want 60 second TTLs, this is true. But I'd like to be able to test my DNS infrastructure from my home with "dig"!</div>
<div><br></div><div>M </div></div>