[Gllug] NTL tells Linux users to ---- off

[Christopher Hunter]

On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 12:57 pm, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> On Wed 15 Oct, Richard Jones bloviated thus:
> > "Unfortunately, for a tiny number of Linux users we will no longer be
> > able to provide them this service. We are genuinely sorry but have no
> > option but to make this system change."
>
> Any idea what special thing their dialler needs to do in order to
> work?  Can't imagine why you would implement anything so non-standard
> that it wouldn't work with standard software.  PPP is a very flexible
> beast.

If you read the article in the "Register", you'll see that NTL claims "a 1:1 
contention ratio".  What it actually means is that the dialler software 
doesn't allow connection most of the time!  Appartently, the NTL dialler is 
badly broken, and they can't even provide their "service" to most of their 
clients!

Chris

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