Hi Jan
On Monday 12 September 2005 10:24, Jan T. Kim wrote:
Looking at the offers by BT and NTL, I have not been quite able to determine what hardware is provided with the packages offered. For example, the most basic package from BT is advertised as "Not Mac compatible", but I've not been able to figure out what causes this incompatibility.
I'm on NTL - What can I say about the company... Probably best not to say anything in public. The hell desk is often difficult to get through to, they are (generally) totally ignorant of anything not connected with Bill Gates. If you do hit lucky, there are one or two guys that know of Linux, but support is unofficial & off the record..
Service wise, very little down time, probably less than 48 hours in the last two or three years I've been with them. Upload speed is pretty dire, but offset that against a 2Mbit download, I'm reasonably happy. The transparent poxy cache NTL run can produce interesting results at times.. For example, a broadband speed test returned something like 50GB/Sec recently..
I'm most interested in the basic ones -- having Internet access at work (UEA), I don't need huge download capacity, web space or other add-on features.
Would a basic pay as you go or a fixed low cost dialup be more cost effective ?
Regards, Paul.