On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 22:53 +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
Truely, they are the *worst* isp I have ever had the misfortune to suffer (with the possible exception of an ISP I once worked for).
The worst ISP for me was BTBroadband.
Days of outages, A service status hotline that told lies, Two months from installation (this was in the early days of ADSL when an engineer had to actually come and visit) before I could get authentication. Laughable News Servers and best of all a spam filter that used to mark BT's own service notifications, billing reminders and postmaster administration mail as Spam....priceless.
The best ISP I had was also my first one, Abel Internet. I used them back in the days before freeswerve when you had to pay a quarterly access fee AND local dial up rates. But Abel forgot to charge me after the first bill. Being an honest sort of chap after the 2nd missed bill I called them, they guy on the other end just laughed and said "don't worry mate" I had that connection free for about 4-5 years and every so often I used to call and check I wasn't going to get landed with a huge bill at the end.
I've lost the access details now, but I sometimes wonder if that account is still active.
Strangely they still charge for 0845 access and are a little expensive on Broadband, otherwise I would still be using them.