Tiscali boots off heavy users

[BonyTony]

Tiscali UK is to boot off a bunch of heavy users tomorrow after they ignored requests to reduce their online usage to less than 150 hours a month.

This is for users on its 56k Anytime dial-up service....so if you spend more than 5 hours a day on average you will have your service terminated .

Well i for one can say whan i was on dial-up i would spend 6 hours min on a week night and possibly 12 hours + sat and sunday...5 hours a day aint enough....i spend even more time now online with having broadband .

Anyone wishing to read the full artical read it at the Register

 

[SPeedY_B]

FFS, this is BT's doing!

arseholes.

 

[SPeedY_B]

Thankfully Freeserve (the dial-up provider I am with now) use more than one company to provide their FRIACO ports (3 companies if I'm not mistaken) and BT is one of the lesser used dial-ins, so Freeserve can offer their users a better service.

Not that I care, My exchange is going to be DSL enabled on wednesday

 

[SPeedY_B]

www.griffin.net.uk
Recommended to me by Geffy

 

[SPeedY_B]

I noticed that just after I posted, can we say "irony"

quite wierd as I was on their literally 10 mins ago.

anyway, it's £50 setup, and £19.99/mo and apparently a good service (geffy's server had an uptime/connection of 42 days before a power cut the other day)

 

[SPeedY_B]

aha, my browser had cached the page (woot )

Griffin Internet CopperStream 500 Home is our entry level self install ADSL service. It is designed to provide broadband Internet access for home users with one or more computers.

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Upto 500Kb/s Download Speed
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Upto 250Kb/s Upload Speed
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Maximum 50:1 Contention Ratio
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24 x 7 Unlimited Internet Access
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Unlimited EMail Addresses
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100Mb Free Webspace
* Upto 5 Static IP Addresses
* NEW Quad virus scanning of inbound and outbound e-mail
* NEW Spam filtering of inbound and outbound e-mail

Setup Charge: £ 50.00
Monthly Charge: £ 19.99

This service is provided is self-install. This means that you will need to provide your own ADSL modem or router to be able to use the service. Griffin Internet provides a range of suitable modems and routers that can be supplied to you pre-configured. You will also need to buy at least one microfilter.

actually its not cached, take a look here > http://www.griffin.net.uk/internetaccess/adsl/default.asp

Must just be something on the front page thats using their (bork) database

 

[SPeedY_B]

Aha, you're a cable user, blueyonder I see (behold mod powers ) whats their service like?

As the only other major cable provider is NTL, and I've only ever heard bad things about them ...

 

[SPeedY_B]

xxxxx-xxxx-xxx-xxx.cableinet.co.uk

It's good to know that there are decent cable suppliers, It's always been in my mind that :
DSL = good
Cable = bad

But I suppose thats because around here we've only recently had DSL and the slightly further regions have NTL supplying them.