[Gllug] re blueyonder

[Daniel Andersson]

don't have their phone, YET, on it's way though
have digital tv and internet through them

the connection is stable as uhm very stable :)
it's been down for about 2 or possibly 3 times the last year
(living in southend-on-sea)

not using their mail nor their dns, so don't have any problems with that ;)

my 2p


oh. nasty to get an NI number? arse, that's not good. i need one.. :(

/ d

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janet Reid" <lucychili at yahoo.co.uk>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Gllug] re blueyonder


> --- Allen Wayne <Wayne.Allen at rhul.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Is this common considering I have just ordered a
> > telewest phoneline with
> > blue yonder
> 
> imho:
> the phone works fine - it was cut off at one point but
> was reconnected promptly after we got through to them*
4> something about a fritzed box on the roof of our
> block.
> 
> it is a good web connection when it is working.
> i have succesfully done some chunky ftp stuff with no
> trouble.
> it has sometimes had proxy issues and recently there
> was some odd dns stuff. 
> the web connection was out the other day for an area
> around 1sqkm near kings cross station - not convenient
> as kim was working from home at the time.
> kim has had a linux firewall set up with our network
> behind it which worked fine - we are between working
> firewalls atm but that is me learning about debian and
> reluctant/old hardware stuff.
> we have had trouble adding additional mac addresses to
> the list of connections allowed on the BY site - have
> not had that work yet.
> 
> my mail issue could be due to our not yet sorting out
> the right way to set up mozilla but we have had a good
> try - we havent called about this so they havent had a
> chance to respond to it. i do not like the cut down ms
> outlook express webmail client they have - no way to
> capture email addresses and i could create an email
> alias but could find a way to edit my from address so
> that the alias was used when i sent mail.
> 
> *their phone system has some nasty catch 22 loops in
> it where you can end up back where you started in a
> menu system with no human in sight/sound.
> the responses when you reach a person have been useful
> and prompt.
> 
> they seem to send their reminder notices out faster
> than their bills which is a bit disconcerting.
> ie the account overdue arrives before the account due.
> 
> overall feeling - some oddness but nothing as nasty as
> getting an NI number =)).
> 
> kim - post if ive got anything wrong! =)
> 
> hope this is useful - janet
> 
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