Drinks, anyone?

New ISP. Happy bunny.

 

I placed some orders with ZEN today. Bye Bye Tiscali, BT et all.

 

Some probs connecting, due to the Mac's settings rather than what they
sent me as DNS etc

But it's as fast as 8MB should be (OK, 5-6MB in reallity as I'm rather a
distance from the exchange).

Time will tell as regards service levels.

 

The Older Gentleman secured a place in history by writing:

I get 5-6Mb (note: not M*B*) and I can spit on my exchange from the bedroom
window. No-one gets better than 6Mb IME.

 

I'm about 1.5 miles from the exchange, am on Sky's ADSL2 offering and
get a sync of 14.9M, and between 8 and 11M throughput depending on time
of day.

Not bad for £10/month.

 

ginge secured a place in history by writing:

Well, OK, I was kinda excluding ADSL2. Which I can't be bothered to pay
the extra £5 for, I really don't do anything that needs it at the moment.

 

I'm on a crap line[1], and get a 10-12M sync, and a solid 1MB download.
A mate who lives practically in his exchange gets the full 24MB on
ADSL2.

[1] The crow-flies distance to exchange isn't too bad, but I can
imagine the route is anything but direct given the age of the
surrounding houses.

 

Come on then, spill.

 

Well, the clue is in the headers.

 

<waves>

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www.MuddyStuff.co.uk
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'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

Emphatically not waving, still every time they **** up I end up
getting another free month as a 'sorry' gesture.

The new equipment does seem to be making a difference.

 

Wot 'e said.

 

None apparent. I seem to be getting through ~50Gb a month without
comment, then there's throughput from another three to add to that.

 

I wonder if ours will be as smooth. I phoned for our MAC number today
and she tried to put me through to tech support so I told her where to
go and just give me a MAC number. will be e-mailed in 3-5 days
aparently.

guess i'll have to wait and see.

Adie

 

Wow that is good then. I wonder if they do my area/house.[/QUOTE]

That is a very good question.

Their post code checker
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/websales/availability/get-address.do
told me I could get cable, so I signed up. They offer money back after
30 days if not satisfied - or they did, anyway. Afetr a week of
silence I phoned sales, to be told I wasn't in an enabled area after
all. So sorry. Then a month later they nicked £83 out of my account.
Took me a while to get it back too.

 

The cheeky sods [/QUOTE]

Quite. Shame really - I like RB.