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Monday 20th October
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Just to let you know, NTL installed wireless Broadband today as part of
their trial. It's great!
Thanks very much for all your hard work.
Regards
Brian, Monkston |
Thanks for the leaflet through my door!
I have just moved here and picked MK for its forward thinking policies on
recycling, pedestrian access etc and was gutted to find I had to go back to
dial-up connections!
Sign me up!
I live in Crownhill and was told I am not able to have broadband as I am
more that 5km from Stony Stratford.
Jaz |
| Got ADSL at last (Nildram), went live Friday. Seems now the
60dB limit is active
Shows re-applying now the dB limit has changed is worthwhile.
How do I remove myself from the mail server?
[Email me!]
Regards
Kevin |
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I have not had a letter from MK Council so I assume I am not eligible for
the Pilot. That is unfortunate and I am disappointed as the rest of my
'phones and TV are NTL.
However perhaps I may now go down the BT route if I qualify.
Keep up the good work.
Regards
Ken, Kents Hill |
| I was going to chase the council to see if I could get on
the pilot as I have submitted my forms but heard nothing. Do you have a
contact name?
[Try peter.bonham@milton-keynes.gov.uk]
Thanks
Tony |
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Just letting you know that I have been successful in joining the NTL
trial.
Many Thanks
Ian |
Check
this site.
A lad in London who has had several plights with BT and ADSL.
Richard, Hon Secretary |
Would love to have Broadband but thanks to BT, that's not
on the agenda for now. I'm happy to lobby.
Good luck.
Morad |
Just checked today and I am now able to get broadband
subject to further checks.
Have ordered via Zen and will keep you informed of progress.
George
Pettingrew Close, Walnut Tree |
I had the installation done on Thursday and got access to
the internet on
Friday. So far the service has been good. The speed via the adslguide' s
speed check is:
Downstream 553 Kbps (69.1 KB/sec), Upstream 121 Kbps (15.1 KB/sec)
The only problem I have with it is that they have not yet setup the mail,
therefore I am using an open relay server to send mail.
Regards
David Hudson[You could try
NTL's SMTP server] |
NTL enabled my Wireless Broadband last Friday night and
here are my initial impressions:
NTL have stated that there are configuration problems with their mailserver
so I dont have an NTL email address yet. Not really a problem since I run my
own server (sendmail) which is fine for outgoing mail but have spent a long
time configuring my spam filters (spamcop) and Demon account to forward mail
to my server with fetchmail. In the longer term I'll probably use Gradwells'
OMDR service for mail forwarding, but that will have to wait until I know
whether the trial will continue indefinitely. However I currently have a
working email system in defiance of NTL :)
The most significant effect is the availability of the 'always on'
operation. This is changing my thoughts of the way I am using the Internet
since the local servers I run were optimised for minimal telephone usage.
(This goes back 8 or 9 years when to access the Internet required a National
rate call on a 14K modem).For instance I run a local news server which
uploads newsgroups of interest in the early hours everyday. With an fast
'always on' connection this is no longer necessary as I can now access
remote news servers in real time without tying up the telephone, so news
reading is more up to date and I'm not restricted to pre-configured
newsgroups.
The Firewall logs are incredible. Total number of firewall hits so far today
are 4189 (from midnight to 21:41hrs), mostly from W32.Blaster.Worm infected
Windows machines probing port 135. I would recommend that NTL connected
Windows computers should have a fully updated operating system and use
antivirus software and a firewall. (Or like me use Linux and a firewall)
I run Debian Linux on this computer and upgraded the software yesterday.
This required a download of 95MB of data. This was completed in about 20
minutes at approx 70KB/sec. (The equivalent analogue modem would have taken
about 19 hours).
In general I am well impressed with NTLs' offering. Apart from the e-mail
service, which I have already worked round, the system seems robust and a
big improvement on what my current ISP (Demon) can provide.
Hope that Helps
Bob |
Following the new 60dB rule, last week I logged on to the
broadband checker that Serena recommended. It
said something like, 'although you are a long way from the exchange, you may
be able to to have 512K service subject to line checks but you cannot have
the 1Mb service'
Today I checked again and it said:
"Your exchange has broadband ADSL. However, the length of the telephone line
between you and the exchange is too long for broadband ADSL"!!
I am hopping mad because I have just reordered ADSL with plusnet. Should I
phone them and tell them about BT's out of date databases? Because if I
don't I don't see any hope of the order even getting off the ground
I'm intending to get down the
pub to say hello!
Martin |
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