Dave Swegen wrote: > John Taylor wrote: > >> Dave Swegen wrote: >> >>> Funnily enough my switch away from VM is taking place today, and I guess I'll >>> find out in a week or so just how bad ADSL in Milton (Butt Lane more >>> precisely) actually is. >>> >>> >> They should be able to tell you what your theoretical maximum is before >> you switch. >> >> Who are you using ? >> > > BT for the phone line (not much choice), and looking at going for Be Internet > to be the ISP. > Will be interesting to see how you get on. I may need to jump ship if Virgin start being useless for me too. Although I'm pretty much locked in with the ADSL speed that I'd get if I did change. > ISO images are rather large (and there *might* be *cough* the occasional tv > series to download as well *cough* :). It was also deeply annoying to find > that recently some websites are only accesible if going either through a 3rd > party proxy, or an undocumented VM one. > > Yes, I get the occasional ISO, but I must be downloading outside their peak period. Not had any problem with proxies since NTL dumped the 'transparent' ones. > Possibly, but they haven't as far as I can tell ditched the whole idea, and > look like they'll be part of the whole scheme. And then there is the whole > BPI letter-writing can of worms as well. > > I think they are probably pretty much all as bad as each other. Its just pot luck as to which one accidentally gets it right for you. > Basically they seem like a company desperate to lose my custom, and after a > year of trying hard to overcome my natural laziness and inertia they have > finally succeeded. So well done to them ;P > ;-) I had pretty much the same with BT. Put up with the appalling service and repeated billing errors for a couple of years. My final straw was when they suddenly started sending all correspondence to an incorrect address, and then cut me off because I hadn't replied! JohnT