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02-Sep-2003, 09:33 PM
Is it just me, or is this internet grinding to a halt? I haven't been able to access the internet at work all this week, apparently there is some kind of DOS attack going on in Somerset. At home it's slower then I have known for a long time. Some pages take a long time to load and the rest just don't load at all...
Perhaps it's a conspiracy.
Martin ~
02-Sep-2003, 09:49 PM
Martin, not having any problems at this end. I`m running on Cable Internet broadband, everything is loading as normal. Your problems may sort out on their own, who knows? Cheers, William R.
03-Sep-2003, 10:08 AM
It's happened from time to time with me Martin, remember me complaining just before my hols about the time to load and keep getting cut off. At the moment touch wood, no problems but I am considering broadband as it's only £25 with cable.
03-Sep-2003, 11:03 AM
Noel - £25??? In my area NTL are offering broadband £17.99 a month and your first 3 months free if you sign up before October....and no installation costs!
Love and LightHayley
03-Sep-2003, 01:57 PM
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Originally posted by Hayleypink Noel - £25??? In my area NTL are offering broadband £17.99 a month and your first 3 months free if you sign up before October....and no installation costs! Crikey Hayley I pay nearly that much for the basic internet telephone access, and Telewest say they're making a loss on it. There are no offers at the moment with Telewest . I'll hang fire. Thanks Hayley.
03-Sep-2003, 02:12 PM
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Originally posted by Martin You could always move to Kent Noel... Umm, well alternately I suppose I could get a very long cable ( about 390 miles long).......nope, being silly now. Back to the ironing. Internet zipping along as good as ever up here Martin.[  ]
03-Sep-2003, 02:37 PM
Maybe you should give NTL a ring - or call Telewest and ask them to beat NTL's price. Its their usual price as I know a friend in Surrey who has been using NTL Broadband for a few montsh now and is very happy with it. Noel - most ISP's offer narrow band at around £10 so NTL are very good at doing Broadband for 17.99.
We have an NTL phone at home (not broadband -staying with AOL narrowband) and thats cheap too - no line rental on the phone - so we only pay for calls. which are 1p off peak and 2p a min at all other times...local and national all the same. we used to get an hours free calls a month to any other NTL number - not sure if we still get that but our bills are only about 5 or 6 pund a month. i do have a second line for work and NTL do charge line rental on that of £6 a month.
Love and LightHayley
03-Sep-2003, 08:06 PM
I don't think we can get NTL oop here Hayley. The cable package we have is something like £18 a month for more channels than we need plus the internet charge of £13 to £15 not sure exactly as it's one bill Mag pays. However thinking about it maybe I should just upgrade to broadband and not tell her. She never checks her bank statements . <vbg>
03-Sep-2003, 09:56 PM
Broadband is very different to normal dial up. I think that ISPs would prefer everybody to sign up to broadband as it doesn't seem to use up valuable phone lines. The ISP that I use has a dial up ratio of about 12 to 1, that's 12 users to every connection available. I'm not sure what ratio other ISPs have but one connection costs them a lot of money.
Martin ~
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