On Thursday, September 09, 2004, at 09:02AM, Phil Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You lot should thank your lucky stars you can even have decent ADSL... I >live right in between Portsmouth and Southampton, RIGHT ON THE EDGE of the >two telephone exchanges, so even tho it's a massively built-up area I'm too >far from each exchange... Thus I can only have NTL, which SUCKS (and oh my >god... Never ever phone technical support unless you fancy driving your own >fingernails into your skull through frustration), and crashes 8 to 9 times a >day forcing me to reboot my cable modem and router... And because the area >is so massively over subscribed, it's only going to get worse! You'll no doubt be glad to know then that in central London the ADSL subscription levels have several times caused similar issues with the DSL cutting out. I have a friend who lives in Shepard's Bush and some evenings gets cut off a lot even on ADSL. -- Mark Benson http://homepage.mac.com/markbenson -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
