New site launched.
 

Note to mods: Please move this post to the appropriate forum if needbe :)

Hi again guys...

Me and my friends have been working on a new ADSL information site for about 2-3 months now and are finally ready to launch it. Before we do, we would like your genuine opinions, suggestions and comments on both the design and the content.

Please bear in mind, the site is not and never will be aimed at competing with "ADSL Guide". We have the upmost respect for them and always have done. :)

We are just a bunch of guys who are getting together to help people understand more about ADSL and what it's all about ( especially with ntl's incompetence sometimes :dunce: )

I won't waffle on too much, so here's the site:

http://www.dslzoneuk.net

Once again, please let us know anything you want to say about DSL ZoneUK.

And please feel free to use the facilites we have available so far.

James

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Perhaps a PM to the Mods beforehand would have been in order.:erm:

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Yeah. Good point and noted. Didn't think :(

As I said, mods: feel free to move it to wherever suits you best - have no problem with that.

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No problem, but please get rid of Gtr Manchester in your profile, be proud of the fact that you live in Lancashire.;) :cool:

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Nah :P Oldham is Greater Manchester ;)

Shaw is Oldham - therefore Gt. Manchester ;)

Altho according to BT, Oldham is Manchester but Shaw is Lancashire (yet Shaw is in Oldham :confused: )

:pp

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Normally I'd remove that link but I think it's an interesting site.
I'll do you a deal, if you link to us I'll leave it there. ;)

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:notopic: I quite agree with you there! :pp ;) :D

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Ah - very good deal Sir. Link back provided ;)

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This could get messy, but Rochdale is also "technically" in Gtr Manchester. it even has an Oldham "OL" postcode. gonads to BT, be true to your roots, ignore artificially imposed boundaries and be proud of your historical heritage. YOU ARE IN LANCASHIRE.:)

Edited to replace B........s with the correct medical definition.;)

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LOL - Ok, whatever ;) I live in Oldham - proud of it.

Lets get back to the topic :)

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Agreed, very clean, and tidy looking site. hope it goes well.:tu:

edit. tried a few pages, links etc. It is quick to load, very smooth.

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good luck

(but is there really a need for another ADSL site?)

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Theres as not as many as there seems - I've looked into this.

And we've tried to provide pages that users will be interested in, and what other sites don't provide :)

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Agreed - looks like a pretty good starting point...

I hope it goes well for you.. (If nothing else, it'll give me somewhere to send my work associates who want advice on Broadband, who aren't getting NTL :) )

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I agree with Iadom, very clean and tidy looking site. One thing that crossed my mind is that perhaps it looks at little too clean. There is very little colour in the site. Personally, I like that, but to others it may be a little 'boring'?

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You might want to (or not :) ) put a link in your driver section alcatel speedtouch for the linux users

http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/in.../index.en.html

Looks pretty smart though.

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Thanks for that. I'll get the Linux drivers on there

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Have now added an ntl & telewest cable availability checker :D

www.dslzoneuk.net/cablechecker.php

Feedback would be grateful :)

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looks good - i dunno why but I didn't expect it to be as professional as it is. I thought it would be just a bunch of links to off-site stuff, so was pleasantly surprised that you've got your own stuff on there, ie the tools section. :)

Not sure I'd remember the URL though.... hope you've got a high ranking in Google ;)

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I'm working on an ISP detect script. It's coming along nicely - but requires me to obtain a list of all the ntl IP ranges that are being used (massive list so far!).

Can you please try the link below and let me know if it correctly detects your ISP?

www.dslzoneuk.net/ip_checker.php

And if it doesnt, please click the link it displays so I can add it, or post here your IP (cross the last 2 digits out tho!)

Thanks again... in advance
James

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That actually works pretty well, nice one. :)

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Thank you Richard. Trying me best :)

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It worked fine this end but could you please tell me who is just a little off novice status what this means:
[img]Download Failed (1)[/img] You are going through a proxy. This may cause problems with some web pages.
NTL have told me that their proxy will have no effect on how a page is viewed. I only found CF due to a problem with the poxy server,,sorry thats my keyboards fault I mean proxy server. ;) Oh and :clap: for your script.

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correctly identified my ISP, my transcache and the IP, i.e. it matched the one reported by my router WAN IP. hth :)

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Same here, proxy and true IP recognised.

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if the proxy has an older version of the page, links can fail, usually a CTRL-F5 cache flush, will cure it :)

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Thanks for that, but have tried that one along with ?1 then ?2 etc but it still used to give me a stored page. The problem was on a little site I have done (novice you understand) and the message board or any new pages I uploaded used to take about 6 hrs to change. Its all working at the moment, I know it was an NTL problem as people on other ISP were getting the new information. Hey I'm glad my little offering brought a smile :rofl: and mad you laugh and thanks for the reps I only found them the other day so have been making good and giving a few out. :) :Sprint:

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I know its a pain, but changing proxy would show the updated page instantly. But you're right - it's no good when u update a lot of stuff and have to keep changing proxies.

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The script works fine - identified the active proxy and my WAN IP

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:tu: Nice clean clutter free site !!

Looks very good so far - though I think we deserve a least a large banner linking to cableforum :D

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lol. You are alreeady on the links page - i'll see what I can do ;)

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Everyone else - this working ok for you? :)

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Yes.