Why doesn't BT Openworld send email to AOL?
31 March 2002, 12:54 PM
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I have an AOL account (since 1993) which I use as TCP/IP connection from wherever I am in most parts of the World to connect to my mail server, it IS good for that - just. I have BT Openworld ADSL at home. In reality both are aimed at Joe Public who doesnt know any better and they are garbage services. AOL is full of SPAM like there is no tomorrow, hundreds of em and they do nothing to stop it. They do not give a sh**. BT Openworld, well, what can I say. This is also not so hot, OK for uploads and downloads most of the time but surfing the net is useless, sometimes slower than a 56k line. If you get ADSL check out adslguide.com and use one of the other servises that gets rated such as Nildram. At work I have a Gig of glorious bandwidth from Blueyonder - get cable is my advice........
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I have an AOL account (since 1993) which I use as TCP/IP connection from wherever I am in most parts of the World to connect to my mail server, it IS good for that - just. I have BT Openworld ADSL at home. In reality both are aimed at Joe Public who doesnt know any better and they are garbage services. AOL is full of SPAM like there is no tomorrow, hundreds of em and they do nothing to stop it. They do not give a sh**. BT Openworld, well, what can I say. This is also not so hot, OK for uploads and downloads most of the time but surfing the net is useless, sometimes slower than a 56k line. If you get ADSL check out adslguide.com and use one of the other servises that gets rated such as Nildram. At work I have a Gig of glorious bandwidth from Blueyonder - get cable is my advice........
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31 March 2002, 02:10 PM
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A gig of BW - erm what exactly are you using? Id be interested to know seeing as its hard enough getting an STM-1 (155mbit)connection at present, that is if youve got £200k to buy one and in an area thats serviceable, plus the backbone infrastructure to make it even feasible.
31 March 2002, 04:15 PM
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I develop video games for a living (have done for 20 years now). Am using a computer of course :-) Worked with Yorks/Diamond Cable + others (BT Labs) on specialised network systems. Just what we do - and we can afford the bandwidth, its free :-)))))) Still have a free ISDN line we aint used for a year, just use it for Fax line (better known as the Carlsberg Complaints line now ??).
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I develop video games for a living (have done for 20 years now). Am using a computer of course :-) Worked with Yorks/Diamond Cable + others (BT Labs) on specialised network systems. Just what we do - and we can afford the bandwidth, its free :-)))))) Still have a free ISDN line we aint used for a year, just use it for Fax line (better known as the Carlsberg Complaints line now ??).
Dave
31 March 2002, 05:08 PM
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My point was that even if you did have a gigabit connection it wont be a dedicated external facing connection - you may have a link to something like the LINX over gigabit ethernet but thats not the same as an outbound connection. Plus the rest of the NET would be a huge bottleneck to you.
My company is a large global ISP and our main transatlantic links are STM16 (2.4GB to the layman) and that suffices for all US bound traffic for all UK customers. We are also a SuperJANET hub which is one of, if not, the largest bandwidth WANs in the UK.
My company is a large global ISP and our main transatlantic links are STM16 (2.4GB to the layman) and that suffices for all US bound traffic for all UK customers. We are also a SuperJANET hub which is one of, if not, the largest bandwidth WANs in the UK.
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