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Comments on news posted 2001-10-08 12:54:40: British Telecom broadband users received this announcement recently: "in the short term we have had to impose traffic controls on particular applications & ports to ensure that our customers retain their great internet experience. ..

billsweat

join:2001-04-24
Burton, MI

Ameritech Ahead of it's Time

Ameritech is currently running an annoying ad campaign where a family has to schedule their cable modem access during "off peak" periods. They have to change their life styles to sleep during the day because of their lack of foresight to buy Ameritech DSL (assuming they were one of the 10 people who actually can) instead of cable. LOL.
permalink · 2001-10-08 13:10:03 · Reply to this ·

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Re: Ameritech Ahead of it's Time

hehehe....HEY! I'm one of those 10 people...I'm signing up the business across the hall, so that makes 11!

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permalink · 2001-10-08 13:27:52 · Reply to this ·
philman2

join:2001-02-09
Van Nuys, CA
 Fun, Pacific Bell has the exact same commercial...

I remember that last year, ordering DSL from them (and after that earthlink) was a nightmare which drive me to take cable. And that's working fine!
permalink · 2001-10-08 14:25:15 · Reply to this ·

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Re: Ameritech Ahead of it's Time

What's more amusing is that over the last year, Pac Bell has had a lot of peak-hour latency problems, causing slowdowns during peak hours (see pacbell forum, posts about the "Lag Monster").

I'm not really faulting PacBell for having problems - every ISP is going to have its share of issues and growing pains, but I really do think it's time for SBC to stop misinforming people (or at least grossly exaggerating the truth) and go with a different marketing approach.
permalink · 2001-10-08 14:36:10 · Reply to this ·

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 That was certainly true when I was with Adelphia. Overnight speeds were full on, during the day they dropped amazingly, assuming the service even worked.

They also had a ridiculous item in their TOS that said any usage over 1GB per month was excessive and subject to penalty.
permalink · 2001-10-08 14:54:08 · Reply to this ·

kilingspam

join:2001-04-30
San Jose, CA

BS might help ISP's really compete with telco's.

Well all this BS might help ISP's really compete with telco's. Hell, why have a telco as an ISP if they can't offer service. Go with a covad ISP so you can actually use your connection.
permalink · 2001-10-08 14:22:48 · Reply to this ·

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"Great Internet Experience"

I've seen many a posts in my Tools forum about people complaining about bad BT connections. Ask the dozens of people how great it really is. From the test results, it's all local BT crap routing. Too many users, not enough backbone.

It would be great if they didn't use like a DS3 for the entire country...
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permalink · 2001-10-08 15:57:47 · Reply to this ·
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