| The internet |
| Martin | Is it just me, or is this internet grinding to a halt? I haven't been able to access the internet at work all this week, apparently there is some kind of DOS attack going on in Somerset. At home it's slower then I have known for a long time. Some pages take a long time to load and the rest just don't load at all...
Perhaps it's a conspiracy. |
| William R | Martin, not having any problems at this end. I`m running on Cable Internet broadband, everything is loading as normal. Your problems may sort out on their own, who knows? Cheers, William R. |
| noel | It's happened from time to time with me Martin, remember me complaining just before my hols about the time to load and keep getting cut off. At the moment touch wood, no problems but I am considering broadband as it's only £25 with cable. |
| Hayleypink | Noel - £25??? In my area NTL are offering broadband £17.99 a month and your first 3 months free if you sign up before October....and no installation costs! |
| noel | quote:
Originally posted by Hayleypink
Noel - £25??? In my area NTL are offering broadband £17.99 a month and your first 3 months free if you sign up before October....and no installation costs!
Crikey Hayley I pay nearly that much for the basic internet telephone access, and Telewest say they're making a loss on it. There are no offers at the moment with Telewest . I'll hang fire. Thanks Hayley. |
| Martin | You could always move to Kent Noel... |
| noel | quote:
Originally posted by Martin
You could always move to Kent Noel...
Umm, well alternately I suppose I could get a very long cable ( about 390 miles long).......nope, being silly now. Back to the ironing. Internet zipping along as good as ever up here Martin.[:)] |
| Hayleypink | Maybe you should give NTL a ring - or call Telewest and ask them to beat NTL's price. Its their usual price as I know a friend in Surrey who has been using NTL Broadband for a few montsh now and is very happy with it. Noel - most ISP's offer narrow band at around £10 so NTL are very good at doing Broadband for 17.99.
We have an NTL phone at home (not broadband -staying with AOL narrowband) and thats cheap too - no line rental on the phone - so we only pay for calls. which are 1p off peak and 2p a min at all other times...local and national all the same. we used to get an hours free calls a month to any other NTL number - not sure if we still get that but our bills are only about 5 or 6 pund a month. i do have a second line for work and NTL do charge line rental on that of £6 a month. |
| noel | I don't think we can get NTL oop here Hayley. The cable package we have is something like £18 a month for more channels than we need plus the internet charge of £13 to £15 not sure exactly as it's one bill Mag pays. However thinking about it maybe I should just upgrade to broadband and not tell her. She never checks her bank statements . <vbg> |
| Martin | Broadband is very different to normal dial up. I think that ISPs would prefer everybody to sign up to broadband as it doesn't seem to use up valuable phone lines. The ISP that I use has a dial up ratio of about 12 to 1, that's 12 users to every connection available. I'm not sure what ratio other ISPs have but one connection costs them a lot of money. |
| LDunlop76 | quote:
Originally posted by noel
I don't think we can get NTL oop here Hayley.
No, I didn't think so either. Broadband for us would be £10 a month more than we're paying for dial-up and would mean changing ISP, which is a major hassle as I use my current e-address for business purposes and it's on all the publicity stuff. So fo the time being we're hanging fire. At the moment our connection speed seems pretty good, though sometimes in the evening pages can take longer to open...... which is usually when I decide to quit! <g>
Hey, d'you think they give the southerners the cheap phone deals because they can't afford anything more after what they have to pay for their houses? How anyone affords a mortgage down there beats me! |
| Hayleypink | yes very true linda! its very expenisive to live here...but i like it :-) |
| noel | It's very expensive to live here as well Hayley. Damn council tax. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr. |
| Hayleypink | yeh its all a much of a muchness...ou earn more in london to be able to spend more...i agree noel on council tax - what a rip off!!!!!! |
| Spitfire | Noel, We took up Telewest broadband at the beginning of the year and wondered why we hadn`t done it ages ago. My advise would be -- don`t hesitate, go for it. A dial-up download (taking an hour)is completed in minutes. I have been a member of a geneology chat room for several years and am never ever cut off. With dial-up, I always had to re-enter several times per session. |
| Spitfire | Martin, There is something I have never experienced in this forum before. On many occasions recently, I click on a forum and get the `page cannot be displayed`, message. However, a second click displays it. I only mention this because when I have had this message in the past I have gone elsewhere. The moral is, keep trying -- the pages ARE there. |
| Martin | quote:
Originally posted by Spitfire
Martin, There is something I have never experienced in this forum before. On many occasions recently, I click on a forum and get the `page cannot be displayed`, message. However, a second click displays it. I only mention this because when I have had this message in the past I have gone elsewhere. The moral is, keep trying -- the pages ARE there.
I have had this message quite a few times. I always reload or refresh the page and it usually loads the second time. I just think the server times out too quickly sometimes. |
| Hayleypink | yeh me too - just refresh and you'll me fine |
| noel | quote:
Originally posted by Hayleypink
yeh me too - just refresh and you'll me fine
I get that frequently as well recently. Maybe the internet fairy is trying to get us to convert to broadband. |
| LDunlop76 | Me too, but only in the last few weeks. I'm persistent enough not to be deterred by it! |
| Martin | Last night my internet connection ground to a halt. I could log on but could not browse or get my emails. It seems to be working much better now. |
| Spitfire | Martin, I`ve given up trying to understand these faults. Yesterday,I too, couldn`t access my mail. Kept being told that either my account name or password was incorrect (although I hadn`t altered anything), a few hours later it was working again!!!!! |