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so use a linux box and iptables in between your router (or instead of your router) and your internal network

Question: do youkeep an individual log of every individual phone call thats made or do you rely on NTLs bill recording the numbers called ?

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Exactly the same sentiments from me, as I've posted on other forums elsewhere, it's the only way to next gen speeds at reasonable prices while maintaining a good quality of service.

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Keep a record of every call and fax sent now have since the large bill. Time/number and how long talking. Fax keeps its log and can print out when asked.

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I'm a little lost in all of this, but, being a member of IEEE's Communications Society (I like telecommunications), some of this stuff interests me. What is EuroDocsis? Is that some bastar*dization of DOCSIS 1.1 or 2.0?

Do you guys in England have Tx lines or Ex lines?

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I agree with you, I don't believe NTL need to (or should) offer webspace or newsgroups or games servers or e-mail or any other crap like that. Such things should be left to other companies to provide and you simply choose which ISP you want to use to connect to them all.

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But they do thats the point, and they provide a crap service with them.

If they didn't want to provide all that stuff then they should have sold the product as a basic connection to the net, nothing more.

For £24.99 a month its a bloody expensive "basic connection to the net" don't you think , especially if the DNS doesn't work.

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Quite agree with you on this with all the problems we should be payed to take the service :p can honestly say it never passes a week without sime problem or the other with NTL.

DNS e-mail newsgroups Ubrs all preventable with maintainance and back up systems

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e-nail? Not heard of that, is it some kind of virtual DIY?

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Virtual Diy keeping a NTL connection:)

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Hi Jerrek.

EuroDOCSIS is another development of DOCSIS standard, it supplies a downstream of 38Mbit/s at QAM64 modulation rather than the standard DOCSIS 1.0/1.1 27Mbit/s, with no extra demands on carrier-noise ratio IIRC.

England, in common with pretty much everyone else except North America ;) has Ex lines and STMx lines not OCx lines :)

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Indeed. Japan has Jx lines by the way. BBKing also messaged me with a few points how EuroDOCSIS differs from DOCSIS. Most important is the 8 vs 6 MHz bandwidth.

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Yip the only real issue is making sure there's an 8MHz rather than a 6MHz wide band clean enough for transmission.

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I objected to paying £34pm for a 1 meg service that was barely faster than 600k, and i cant say i,m overwhelmed by the speed of 600k, but its cheaper. So why i would want to pay more, would take some thinking about.
No point in taxing the already overtaxed ntl network. ;)

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If your dissatisfied and you feel that your not getting vfm the simple solution is to go back to dialup, its cheaper than 600k and then you wont be contibuting to the overtaxed NTL BB network :)

I remember (way back) when customers were asking for a 1meg service and NTL's reply was basically it will never happen because there isnt enough customers that want it, (we now have a 1meg service) in order for ntl to be competitive they must invest in a faster service to give their domestic home customers further options to spend more of their hard earned cash otherwise they will be left behind by the compitition.

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What instead of complaining??
NTL advertised 1meg amongst other things for "high speed gaming", a reason why i got it, and it was for about 3 months. After that it became a 750k connection. I dont mind paying for goods that are as they are supposed to be, not what they are'nt. :)
Ive had adsl for 2yrs, and over 10 on the inet, so yeh i know exactly what "value" is as you put it, or are you simply not allowed to voice an opinion??
I heard this site was a little biased, but this takes the cake.
If i dont like it, just F.O. and dont complain?
If NTL HAD the money to invest in the current setup it would be miles better, but a lot dont think they have. Unless you know different, and if its not that bad why are there so many complaints about the same problems over and over again?