Telewest

[Mark Ovens]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 01:09:12PM +0100, Steve Roome wrote:
> Mark Ovens <mark at freebsd-uk.eu.org> wrote :
> 
> > On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 10:09:28PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > > > > I'll keep the account because of the free calls, a single UDP 
> > > > > connection through them is all they'll ever see though !!!
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Ditto, although it hasn't been *that* bad for me until this last week.
> > > 
> > > Maybe ``surftime'' will save us all !!!  I hear Demon are planning an 
> > > announcement (Hi Mark (K)) !
> > > 
> > 
> > Really? a colleague uses Demon and he was told that they aren't going
> > to support it.
> > 
> > I'm hoping Telewest are going to come up with a cable modem solution
> > soon. They are laying a light-pipe along the A4, which is within 100m
> > of my house (and 25m from the nearest house).
> 
> (I think I'll stop lurking now...)
> 
> I would suggest that you steer very clear of telewest! I have cable
> television and two phone lines with them, and the service is
> appalling, neither can be guaranteed to work reliably, although the
> phone line is better than the TV.
> 
> Also, Telewest when they introduced their free isp offerring failed to
> meet demands at all in Bristol and I would expect them to do the same
> as they've done with cable television and their ISP services and screw
> up.
> 

Well maybe the good folk of Bristol are about to see a big improvement
in their service. I live near Chippenham and this fibre they are
laying is running through Chippenham, along the A420 to Bristol and,
in the opposite direction, along the A4 to at least Reading (a friend
worked in Bracknell up to a couple of weeks ago). I guess it is
ultimately running London - Bristol and on into the West Country.

> This mailing list  :
> http://www.escribe.com/internet/_/ 
> 
> has a lot of discussions about the quality of telewest services and
> might be useful before you decide to go with them, just search for
> telewest.
> 
> (back to lurking)
> 
> Hope this has been some help...
> 
> 	Steve
> 
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