[Gllug] BT Broadband

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:42:15AM +0000, Matthew King wrote:
> Christopher Hunter <chrisehunter at blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > There are three ISPs to avoid right now - BT, Talk Talk (Carphone
> > Warehouse) and Virgin Media.  These three have signed up with Phorm to
> > log web browsing habits and plague users with "appropriate" adverts.
> 
> Not to mention some to always avoid. I'd possibly put BT in that list
> but it certainly includes Tiscali. From what I've heard it should
> include Sky too but I've no direct experience, except that I understand
> my uncle, who uses Sky, has a pre-configured router and has not been
> given either the router or ADSL passwords. This is exactly the sort of
> thing which rings alarm bells in my head.

Errrm: how do you configure port forwarding then ? Or is this a 'dumb blonde'
modem that doesn't do that sort of thing ?

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