| From: | Dave Fisher |
| Date: | 6 May 2001 at 13:38:01 |
| Subject: | Re: ADSL (was Networking options) |
Hi Neil,
On 05-May-01, You Wrote About The Subject Re: [amigactive] Re: ADSL (was Networking options),
> I've had a look, but I really dislike reading discussions on the web.
I find slow ones aren't too bad, but web forums that are the speed of a
mailing list like this one, are awfull :-/
> It's bad enough reading newsgroups at Google :(
Newsgroups are bad enough full stop :-)
> If we do a broadband feature, I'll definitely mention it. It's a very
> useful site.
Cool :)
>> [BT Poxy Proxy]
> It's not just the way it can go out of date, it's the way their proxy
> servers fall over. When it's transparent, there's no easy way to get
> round it, so sites become accessible. You can skip the proxy, by adding
> a "? to the end of the URL, preferably with a fake variable assignments
> too.
Tell me about it. I went to one of the manual pages for the ships on
Planetarion and was talking to someone else as the time, and the costs
didn't tie up. I stuffed a ?1234 on the end, reloaded and sure enough the
page was updated. Sucks really, but there you go, they deny there is a
problem and refuse to even look at it, let alone correct it.
Its annoying really, I didn't fully understand the relationship between
BTignite and the ISP's when I signed up (last June!), otherwise I may not
have chosen BTOpenworld. The biggest thing to swing that was the £150
install fee being waived. Although having seen how easy it was to install
my particular ADSL, if I'd paid £150 for it, I wouldn't have been happy!
> Well, BT have already screwed up. I asked for my Home Highway to be
> disconnected on Friday and a new line to be installed at the new house
> on the same day. They only booked the first part. Then I asked for the
> home line's number to be transferred to the existing line at the new
> house. They arranged that, but have to send an engineer round to do it.
> They booked him for the morning, despite my telling them we wouldn't have
> access until the afternoon.
LOL. How do they get away with it ? Its crazy, it really is.
> The good part is that as a HH customer I get £27 compensation for each
> day I'm without service. Instead of coming Friday afternoon they'll come
> early Monday morning. I don't need the phone line at weekends anyway and
> I'm getting £81 compensation! That's half the ADSL install paid for :)
Ah thats not so bad then :) A friend of mine ordered ADSL a few weeks after
I got mine installed as I told him how easy it had all been. I think he
wished he never bothered. Some 24 engineers, several trenches, visits from
the local complaints manager later, he finally got it installed after 5
weeks from the first visit when they arrived, wired it in, tested it, said
it doesn't work, checked the line and said, "erm you've got a DACS unit,
that has to be removed before we can install it". Usefull!
He did get 3 or 4 months free ADSL for it. After they'd charged him and he
pointed out they said they wouldn't, that is.
Best Regards,
*Dave Fisher - Team AMIGA*
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