[GLLUG] Broadband/cable provider [OT]

[James Courtier-Dutton]

On Mar 8, 2013 8:22 AM, "michael norman" <michaeltnorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/03/13 02:31, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> I am a long term Be user and have always been happy with their service,
but I will have nothing to do with Sky.  According to their info once the
deal is concluded home users will be migrated to Sky.  I have told them
that there are no circumstance I will use Sky so unfortunately for me this
is the end our our relationship.
>
> M
>
>> On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 21:28 +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
>>
>>>     Jason at UKFSN tells us that SKY have purchased O2 (and I assume Be)
>>> landlines and broadband under an agreement that existing wholesale
terms and
>>> conditions will be respected for the immediate future.
>>
>> The "immediate future" they foresee is limited to about 5 months
>> according to their letter today.  The whole mess then goes to Sky...
>>
>> C.
>>
Sky broadband is actually quite a good deal if you already have sky tv.
I do have a big gripe currently, their DNS servers are really slow to
respond, making the whole web surfing experience a slow crawl unless you
put bind in cache mode locally on you home lan.
It can take over 30 seconds to get a dns response !
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