NTL turns back on Linux users

[KennyR]

NTL suck anyway. No-one would use their service unless they had to or didn't know better. They offer a very poor service, they have a 1GB download cap, and there is a lot of downtime. Also the proxy service they offer is often as slow as hell, but you'd probably have to use it to get around their enforced proxy.

In case that's not clear enough:

AVOID NTL!!!

BT is almost as bad, but not quite. In fact, in the UK, internet is in the stone age.

I strongly recommend Telewest's Blueyonder service for anyone living in cable areas in the UK. They don't enforce proxies, there are no caps, there is no downtime, you always get your full bandwidth, you can connect with any system that supports DHCP, and they don't spam you or profit by sending your email off to all and sundry. In fact their service is almost perfect. In other words, the opposite of NTL.

[KennyR]

AxE wrote:
iv had almost no trouble with NTL

You're one of the people who tell me all the bad things about NTL, like the proxies. :-P

[KennyR]

mdwh2, don't listen to me, listen to the users.

[KennyR]

As a guess (and *only* a guess), I'd maybe say they're switching to a new custom dialup protocol. Why they're doing this I have no idea, but improving services for their customers sounds like a line of bull, especially since their service is hardly famous for customer support, and other ISPs with better services seem to manage ok on PPP, PPPoE and DHCP.



My favourite is that MS is paying them to eliminate non-Windows users. But then, Apple users can still use it, so there goes that one.

[KennyR]

JurrassicCamper wrote:
But it is not enforced. ntl: home is split into six companies (regions). I can't speak for other regions but its not enforced in NE.

It's my understanding that if you overstep the 1GB cap too much, you get lettered. If you continue to do it, you get lettered some more. If you keep on doing it, you get cut off.

If that was the case with my ISP, I'd have lasted a month and not 12 months!

Same stuff different name... beside ntl: and telewest are soon to merge. That will please you :-P

ARGH