[YLUG] Broadband

[Alex Howells]

On 14/03/2008, James Jeffrey <james at jgj.org.uk> wrote:
> I've finally transferred away from Be (3 month notice period) after a series
> of lengthy (more than one day) outages on the York exchange late last year.
> When I asked for an explanation of the problems I was told it was
> confidential.
>
> I'd been with them for less than a month when my DSL was out for more than
> 36 hours over the course of three days (two seperate outages).
>
> They also insist on having very frequent outage windows in this area for
> "essential maintenance".

Interesting... what package were you on?  Did the outage affect the
whole exchange?  I'm looking at it for home usage when I move soon as
the new place may not have Virgin Media cable :(