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If you're mostly leeching by Rogerborg (4.00 / 1) #1 Mon Dec 20, 2004 at 05:32:39 AM EST

Then Telewest / Blueyonder do 1Mb/128Kb for 25 Britain's Pounds per month.

You should, however, boycot them because they've just shitcanned the Sabrina the Teenage Witch channel.

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Metus amatores matrum compescit, non clementia.

How old is borglet? by Dr H0ffm4n (4.00 / 1) #3 Mon Dec 20, 2004 at 05:45:49 AM EST

My kids too were put out by the loss of Nickleodeon, Nick Toons, Nick Junior, Nick Replay not to mention Nick Toons+1. No more Rug Rats, Wild Thornberries, Dora the Explorer, Blues Clues. Tears are welling up in my eyes as I type this...

For whom exactly do you subscribe to the kiddies channels? Borglet looks a little young to fully appreciate the fine acting on display in StTW.

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: Kiddies channel? by Rogerborg (2.00 / 0) #14 Mon Dec 20, 2004 at 10:44:35 AM EST

Yes... yes, I suppose it could be construed as being a show for children. If you like. I understand that Ms the Teenage Witch is very popular in prisons as well though.

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Web proxy by random (4.00 / 2) #8 Mon Dec 20, 2004 at 06:44:40 AM EST

Has their web proxy stopped being incredibly irritating?

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Ewww by motty

(2.00 / 0) #9 Mon Dec 20, 2004 at 06:46:15 AM EST

Could do without one of them...

I amd itn ecaptiaghle of drinking sthis d dar - Dr T
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I have Blueyonder by Dr H0ffm4n (4.00 / 1) #11 Mon Dec 20, 2004 at 07:13:16 AM EST

I don't get proxied. Not at the browser level and not so that I've ever noticed at lower levels. But then I didn't use the install disk they give you. I just plugged it in and it works (as long as you've got dhcp enabled).

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: It's transparent by Rogerborg (2.00 / 0) #16 Mon Dec 20, 2004 at 10:53:30 AM EST

All port 80 (and maybe 3128 / 8080 etc) traffic gets re-routed to their caching proxies. Or it did, anyway. And they used to suck, but they've either fixed them or taken them out. I haven't checked for a while, and I'd have to log into my Lunix box and look at some headers, and that sounds like work. I'm content that if we're still being proxied, they've fixed it now so that it actually benefits us as well as them.

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Good question, and yes, it has by Rogerborg (2.00 / 0) #15 Mon Dec 20, 2004 at 10:46:27 AM EST

I recall having to use a non-port 80 third party proxy to avoid it, but that was years ago. I'm just going through their transparent proxy now, and it's fast, available and doesn't block anything. As I understand it, it was pressure from filthy h4xx0rz bypassing it that pressured them into improving it.

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Say by Bob Abooey (4.00 / 1) #2 Mon Dec 20, 2004 at 05:44:03 AM EST

Why do you have a little ASCII arrow at the bottom of your diary on the main page:

Warmest regards,
--Your best pal Bob

I don't know by motty

(2.00 / 0) #5 Mon Dec 20, 2004 at 05:55:19 AM EST

Been wondering that myself.

I amd itn ecaptiaghle of drinking sthis d dar - Dr T
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: Heh. by i (4.00 / 1) #10 Mon Dec 20, 2004 at 06:53:57 AM EST

Here

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Telewest by snugglebunny (4.00 / 2) #4 Mon Dec 20, 2004 at 05:48:43 AM EST

Fast reliable service, been using them for three years, fixed the cable for free when our builder cut it in half and didn't bat an eyelid when I told the installation guy to just let me install it. They appear to have no real problem with Linux unless you phone up asking for help instead of just reporting a problem. Seems fair to me.

: Even then, you can get help with Lunix by Rogerborg (2.00 / 0) #17 Mon Dec 20, 2004 at 10:55:58 AM EST

On their support newsgroups. They're not supposed to, but they'll help anyway if you make with the data, bless their polyester nerd socks.

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I have no suggestion by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 1) #6 Mon Dec 20, 2004 at 06:14:58 AM EST

But I fully encourage rapid procurement of broadband access, as I have a number of half-finished musical endeavors which could use bass parts.

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Zen, without question by random (4.00 / 2) #7 Mon Dec 20, 2004 at 06:42:14 AM EST

Very nice connection, no filtering or transparent web proxies, techies who know what they're doing. People I've recommended them to who aren't technically inclined say their sales and support staff are wonderful too.

However, I'm jumping ship and going with Bulldog soon, because for only a few quid more, I get 4Mbps broadband instead of 0.5. Tasty! Let's hope they're decent.

Plusnet by ambrosen (4.00 / 1) #12 Mon Dec 20, 2004 at 08:10:11 AM EST

Have been good to me, and Customer Service were understanding the one time I phoned about an outage, and told them where tracert was failing.

: Seconded [n/t] by IEFBR14 (4.00 / 1) #13 Mon Dec 20, 2004 at 10:27:02 AM EST

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: Thirded. by Breaker (4.00 / 1) #18 Mon Dec 20, 2004 at 09:25:03 PM EST

Tech support actually listen when you say you've run the ping test, tracert fails here, etc etc. No pressure to take you through their helpline script, although they do very well when my n00b friend calls them too.
They've never screwed up a billing, either.

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Nildram by dunc (4.00 / 1) #19 Tue Dec 21, 2004 at 01:24:27 AM EST

Nildram have been my provider for years (well, as long as I've had adsl, however long that is) and I've had only good experiences. They don't seem to mind me bittorrenting the whole internet either (9.75Gb shifted in Dec so far...). They also host the jolt network (if you care about online gaming) and they've just started testing VOIP.

http://www.nildram.net/

There is also a good comparator thing here:
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/isps/compare.asp

along with lots of other good adsl/ broadband stuff.

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