[Colchester] The Internet

[Jai Harrison]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Wayland Sothcott
<wayland at sothcott.co.uk> wrote:
> Joao Verissimo wrote:
>>
>>    There one thing I would like to see... Every body getting together
>>    and target an ISP like Virgin Media and try and get better support
>>    for Linux.  If everyone (being Linux users) across the UK acted as
>>    one then the ISP will adjust to include Linux support
>>
>>
>> >I think Linux is very well supported these days. Obviously with Linux you
>> > should get a router and not even try and use a USB Modem.
>>
>> I actually just had some problems with Virgin's modem... no internet at
>> all, until I launched Internet Explorer inside a virtual machine and it went
>> through the configuration.... with all sorts of questions and form fields
>> that I really didn't think I should answer to have a working internet
>> connection.
>> Despite the fact that the bloke who installed it said that he had
>> configured it all for me and I wouldn't need Windows.
>>
> So Virgin supply a router that can only be configured from Internet
> Explorer? I think you should dump Virgin. Their email service is weak. They
> are in with Phorm and they supply routers that are not Browser compatible.
>
Seconded. That sounds awful.

Also thanks for your definition of Linux and the reason a lot of
devices don't work with it. I found it quite insightful.