BONGO Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 due to a fat housemate with a very worrying addiction to downloading child cartoons such as tale spin, he-man and the borrowersi'm not helping or adding to this thread, but i am laughing my f**king tits off at this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 Ha ha... there has to be one broadband provider out there good enough for us. Wonder how hard it is to make our own company ?To run your own ISP, pretty simple the bigger picture. If however you want to get like BT/NTL with your own lines, exchanges etc, its a million times harder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BONGO Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 To run your own ISP, pretty simple the bigger picture. If however you want to get like BT/NTL with your own lines, exchanges etc, its a million times harder. it's so hard, nobody has done it!!! Not their own exchanges anyway. Only BT has exchanges, in which, telewest, talk talk, Bulldog, pipex, tiscali, orange, Sky, telewest, NTL, AOL, and every other ISP uses and pays BT for. Thats why they can pay me when they are so disorganised, half the time they haven't sorted me any work out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munkee Posted January 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 what do you work as bongo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ted Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 (edited) Slightly off topic, does anybody have any experience with the virgin fair usage policy?I've had virgin as my isp for about 6 months and about 2 months ago my internet speed suddenly went rubbish at peak times. I assume they've put me on their fair usage policy.At the moment im on 6GB per month which isn't really supposed to cater for things like CSS etc.I was wondering whether upgrading my line to their 'unlimited usage' package might do the trick. Edited January 10, 2007 by ted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BONGO Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 what do you work as bongo?I'm a BT engineer mate. I'm supervising contractors that are installing provision equipment for almost every ISP in the country,in BT exchanges. So basically, when you apply for your sky BB or Tiscali or whatever, BT gets a job off that company to provide the linking cables and software between their equipment, and the BT network, so this is what the contractors are installing, and what i do when i'm not supervising, along with all sorts of faults on Broadband, normal lines, ISDN, Private lines, alarm lines etc.It's a really enjoyable job different everyday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish-Finger-er Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 It's a really enjoyable job different everyday.Unlike my job in bt, which is fixing vans that people like bongo break everyday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si-man Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 Im on telewest, 10Mb, is £26 a month I think, with unlimited usage and an average downliad speed of around 850kb/s (had 1300), is allll gravy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadChikken Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 I'm with Plus.NET best I could find:Up to 8Mb speeds nationwide †Free setup availableFixed cost paymentsFlexible usage optionsNo fixed download limitsPriority service on our networkAdvanced web features - CGI & MySQL Extras: Extras: Free online supportSpam blocking and anti-virusEmail addresses (unlimited)Webspace (100MB)Domain hosting (1)Free online supportSpam blocking and anti-virusEmail addresses (unlimited)Webspace (250MB)Domain hosting (5)Static IP 30:1 contention ratio, instead of that rubbish AOL/BT 50:1costs 22.99 a month. Seems alright for me, hope thats ^^^ some use to you.Oh god no, dont go anywhere near Plus.NET if you live in the midlands. We had it at uni and it was an absolute joke. The line was so unstable and used to be down for 12 hrs at a time every month or so. Oh and they dont have a "download limit" but a fair usage policy. If you do download over a certain amount during peak times (6am til Midnight or something) then they basically reduce your line speed by 75% through peak hours. Its not supposed to affect http/msn etc but it does, and it also means online games are laggy as foooooI'd never go anywhere near them again. Ive heard great things about Pipex and Nildram, Im on my dad's AOL 2meg line at home, and although I dont download massive amounts the line is VERY stable and I dont have a single complaint!If you can get NTL they're great for heavy downloaders, a mate at uni who lived over the road used to DL 20gb+ a day at all times and although was politely asked not to use it quite so much (which he obviously ignored) there's nothing in the policy which stopped him doing it!M@ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munkee Posted January 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 So it looks like ntl arent too bad then really? One thing that could be gay is that ntl dont assign you your own ip address do they? so some download sites wont work due to "you have reached your maximum limit for the day" etc thing? we have our cable through ntl, since sky are a bunch of pricks and the guy couldnt be arsed to climb up his ladder any higher to get a signal. So would be easy to sort out wouldnt it? do i have to change from my bt phoneline if i go with ntl? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munkee Posted January 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 Fat boy just arrived and guesse what "im only going to be downloading the odd one or two things now.. ive had enough"I doubt it.. he loves downloading like a fat boy loves cake... oh wait...the irony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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