Another broadband question - Bulldog?

If you ask them, they will explain why they haven't dropped the price. I'm
not sure I entirely believe it, but it is still a reason.

Never had a problem with my connection in 2.5 years.

See above - for the amount of non-hassle I have (especially considering I
use VPN extensively and heavily) they're worth paying a little bit more for
IMO.

 

Are you connecting to XP clients or 2000/2003 servers? If 2003 you can just
go into Terminal Services manager, right click on the 'orphaned' session and
say connect and it'll put you right back to where you were.

 

It's 2k Server at both ends, & you can do the right click/connect, but
sometimes the original session just refused to play, giving an
"incompatible video driver" error.

 

Not bothered by their recent traffic-shaping antics then?

 

TOG@toil wrote

slightly off topic but who gives a shit.

I have been looking at my ISP end spam filtering. I noticed that Force9
now offer a spam reporting service not just identifying.

What you do is forward your 'offensive' mail to "thisisspam@youraccount.
force9.co.uk" and they will do the spamcopping bit on your behalf. Good
innit.

So I thought, cut out the middleman(me) and let fuckers die at the hands
of experts and, as a bonus, **** off a few people who have me in their
killfiles.


Bring it on spammers.

 

steve auvache wrote

A small re-read suggests this is not exactly accurate, it teaches your
filters[1].

[1] I half hope/suspect that they take the 'your' data and incorporate
it in their own stuff.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Ferger amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

Is it?

I don't exactly tear the arse out of my connection by I reckon I use a
lot more than that.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, steve auvache amazed us all with this pearl of
wisdom:

I've got Thunderbird for that.

Actually, so far (touch wood) I've had *no spam whatsoever* from my
ISP's email addresses, it's only the free ones I use that now get the
odd one and again, Thunderbird sorts them out in a right and left click.

I might see 3 spams a week now which isn't bad I reckon.

 

Rope wrote

It is surprisingly fucking low if you put 2 minutes of full on video at
the disposal of ukrm.

According to my stats only about 10 peeps got WC before they pulled the
page.

 

Hi,

A quick note about the Spam filtering here. It used to be a case that
you could train your own spam filter with anything that slipped through,
thus giving all of our customers their own personalised filters.

However, a few months ago now we changed the filtering software we were
using on the email platform and currently it isn't possible to train the
filters up. Though they are still accurate at choosing what is spam and
what isn't spam.

 

PlusNet's on-line ordering doesn't work with my combination of Mac and
browser. (P&O Ferries is the same.... As are other websites.)

So I can't order from them.

Bulldog doesn't offer enough webspace, really.

Timo's given me the details opf a good-sounding outfit - pricey, but
they definitely sound clued up.

Then there's Be 24MB. But they don't sound wildly clued-up. What does
the FOAK say about Be, then???? I *don't* want a wirelss modem/router
as (A) I've ot a perfectly decent Netgear 814 router anywa, and (B)
none of the four machines that I'll be using has a wireless card, so
it'll be rather pricy.

 

Be's 24Mb wouldn't be any better than Bulldog's allegedly forthcoming 20/24Mb
service - both are wildly dependent on how close to the exchange you are.

Any 24Mb service will require that your BT line is reterminated - i.e. a
little man from BT goes round to the exchange, yanks your wire out of one
socket an puts it back in another, belonging to your new ISP. It is by no
means unheard of for BT to cock this bit up, leaving you with a poor service
or no service at all. This is one of the major causes of complaints against
LLU internet service providers.

The free router is something of an illusion with Be, because it remains their
property. If you break it, or don't give it back when you leave them, you'll
have to pay for it.

 

Zen works for me. You gets what you pay for.

--

 

Fuckloads

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/21/bulldog_cable_wireless/

 

OK, any chance of an email with a mobile phone number so's we can
discuss this properly? Because Bulldog looks like getting the business
at the moment.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Ferger amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

I hardly use the web anymore. Apart from checking the weather I mostly
just click on stuff from here and might follow the site a bit deeper if
it looks interesting but that's about it.

I do use usenet a lot; probably something IRO 15 or so hours a day if
I'm not at work. I might not be sat at my machine all that time btw, but
I do have it downloading new headers every so often.

Most of my usage is P2P filesharing. I might grab a couple of 500MB
files a week and then keep them uploading 'till demand wears off. I
suppose at it's peak I can transfer a couple gigs a day for a couple of
days and then not use it for a few days.

I reckon I get through about 50gigs a months sharing TV shows and stuff.

I do start to feel guilty if I've been up and downloading at full speed
for more than 24 hours and tend to stop. This is rare though and after a
few hours the upload tends to trickle as demand falls.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Rope amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

Hardly any in fact.

I do have porn on here, of course I do but it's mainly TV shows I've
missed or ones I can't watch because I'm away.

I don't know what Pipex's is but I don't think I get through 100GB a
month and maybe maximum 5 gigs in one session but that's also rare.

 

I'm sorry Simon but that article misses my point. Do they keep clear
blue headroom on the interconnects into and out of their own private
network such that a customer can *always* suck or push data at full
stated customer package speed from the "house" to a server in Japan,
America or Germany.

Bytel for instance, although this is a business service geared up for
high performance application serving over VPN, VoIP etc., buys enough
capacity into and out of it's private network such that we have ~1/3
extra headroom. We allow some classes of customers to burst and only
charge (after negotiation) if it becomes a pattern. Neither do we pass
off traffic through public peering on any of our services (currently)
although we will eventually peer to provide a different class of
product.

'Hog

 

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Another option you may not have considered is Homechoice. I don't know much
about them as an ISP but their video-on-demand service is meant to be very
good.

http://www.homechoice.co.uk/packages/max_speed_base_pack.html

This gives you most of the freeview channels, delivered down your phone line
to your TV, plus the ability to view the last 7 days' worth of BBC content
on-demand (ie whenever you want, fast-forward and rewind), plus the ability
to rent pay-per-view movies at £2-£3 a pop, along with 8Meg broadband. Price
is £29.99 a month which is the same as Bulldog's 8Mb service once the
discount's worn off. Note that watching TV through the box eats into some of
your broadband bandwidth allocation (about 2Mb's worth IIRC)

Main problem is that Homechoice's offering is all done through a single,
combined TV decoder and DSL router box, which, while looking very nice
indeed, really needs to sit near your TV. Since it also needs to plug into
your BT master socket, and connect to your PC, you might end up with cables
all over the shop. Fine if you have carpets to hide them, a PITA if you have
solid wood floors and doorways, hallways and fireplaces in the way (comme
chez moi). You can connect your PC to the box via wireless, but you can't
yet have a wireless connection from the box to the phone socket.

 

TOG@toil wrote

Their website is *very* IEcentric

If it is the same sort of symptoms that Opera used to get with them you
can but you have to do it without the mouse and be alert for subtle
changes to buttons. Blessed be Opera 8