| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 4 May 2001 at 20:41:19 |
| Subject: | Re: ADSL (was Networking options) |
Dave Fisher said,
> Hi Neil,
>> There are relatively few complaints about them in uk.telecom.broadband,
> Try http://www.adslguide.org.uk :)
No thanks, I hate reading web based forums.
>> apart from the dreadful transparent proxy server.
> Thats one thing that doesn't "seem" to effect me, which is odd. I can't
> attribute anything to the proxy anyway, but I still wish they'd get rid of
> it ;)
Very odd. It was bad enough when I used a dialup BT account.
> Whilst I've personally not had too many problems, there is no way in merry
> hell I'm staying with BTOpenworld come my renewal, albeit next January, as
> there are plenty more ISP's that are there for the end user, and not for the
> publicity, which is basically all BTO are in it for.
I've all but decided who to go with, and it ain't BTO. None of them will
let me order it until I've moved into the new house, because they need
to do a line check. Why they can't check it now is beyond me, the house
is occupied and the line is active.
>> With the exception of Freeserve, who also use a transparent proxy
>> (although it has to be better than BT's) the other ISPs charge at least
>> £10 per month more and many aren't even bothering to try to compete.
> You get what you pay for at the end of the day.
That's normally true, but not necessarily in this case. An ISP has to
charge a tenner a month more than BTO to make even a small profit. BTO's
a) The wholesale price is artificially high, and BT are the wholesaler
too
b) With £30bn debts, what's a few quid extra :-O
Cheers
Neil
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