[dundee] Telewest Broadband 512Kb

[Colin Brough]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 04:47:13PM +0000, tom stott wrote:
> From: tom stott <tstott at computing.dundee.ac.uk>(by way of tom stott
> 	<tom at linuxdisco.co.uk>) (by way of tom stott <tom at linuxdisco.co.uk>)
> Subject: Re: [dundee] Telewest Broadband 512Kb
> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:47:13 +0000
> To: Tayside Linux User Group <dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Cc: 
> 
> well apart from their dns being almost unusable, the total inability to
> correctly bill you, then then over billing by a vast amount, regular outages,
> and don't expect to use their pop3 servers if u plan to use the supplied
> @blueyonder.co.uk address's and so on....
> 
> personally i cant stand telelworst broadband and as soon as my 12months were
> up i changed and went to an adsl ISP (whom i have had no problems with at
> all), tbh id rather go back onto 56k than use those bumbling fools again. But
> i do know people that have and still use them happily enough.
> ahhhh rant over

Feeling better, now, Tom? :-)

>From my 8 months or so of experience, their connection has been good -
one brief outage - though their mail-server is a joke for a major ISP!

I've not been overbilled, but I have Talk Unlimited on my phone line
and broadband, so the bill is very close to the same amount each month
- there's not much that they can muck up!

Can't comment on DNS - not been a big problem for me...

If you want to use binary newsgroups (I don't) then there are regular
complaints about incompletes, but then you do get that facility for
free (I understand that BT, for instance, don't have binary
newsservers as part of the standard package).

Oh, and I don't have the option of ADSL, so I'm stuck if I want
broadband!

Cheers

Colin

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Colin Brough                             Colin.Brough at blueyonder.co.uk