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Old 14 December 2002, 10:02 PM
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anyone got it?
if so marks out of ten.
ten being the best possible thing scince scoobynet.
Old 14 December 2002, 10:11 PM
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Wouldnt be without it now
Old 14 December 2002, 10:35 PM
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I'd like to answer both halves of that question separately:

BT: 3/10
Broadband: 10/10.

I'll never go back to being without the service, at least not voluntarily. Trouble it, BT have done their best to deprive me of email and web space, and they periodically disconnect me from the 'net completely. I have a business connection too, which I'd have thought should be better.

Not sure whether anyone else is actually any more reliable, though

A.

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Old 15 December 2002, 12:49 AM
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broadband great but wouldnt advise bt im with bt and got 3 other people to go on it and all of us have problems and **** customer service advise telewest if you can get it
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Andy,

I think the main difference between the business connection and the home user accounts is the contention ratio. I have yet to date to see an ISP which offers guaranteed uptime with an SLA on DSL. However I have not looked into that for a few months.

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Old 15 December 2002, 10:23 AM
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Ian: you're right, the main difference is the contention ratio. I get 20:1 (and it never even feels that slow), consumer service is 50:1. The other main difference is that I get a proper Ethernet router instead of the nasty USB thing.

Guaranteed uptime is one thing - although I've lost count of the number of times the email server has become unavailable. Destroying my web site because of a problem with my account that they couldn't identify (let alone fix) is another. The final insult was the fact that the monkey who eventually replied to my letter of complaint obviously hadn't even read it [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

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