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bawbag99 · 19-05-2004, 21:45

Well just my tuppence worth.

Been on pipex 1mb for 5 weeks now.

In the most happy with the service especially working stable email servers!
Web browsing is lightning quick compared to NTL, and volia I can now access profiles.yahoo.com which was borked with ntls proxies in Glasgow but overall speed is slightly lower 119-120kB/s compared to 128kB/s on NTL. I also notice that if you have two downloads going web browsing speed takes a hit compared with NTLs service.
News servers are very slow ~19-20kB/s but completion is excellent, not on par with Clara but useable. There seems to be an ongoing issue with them at the mo but at least they are accessable.

Overall happy but the news servers better be working when my clara is up for renewal or it will be firefly 2mb with giganews......

BTW...I have not had reason to contact the support people yet but I am used to NTL so shouldnt be much worse hopefully!!

Cheers to all who responded!!!

19-05-2004, 21:45	#52
bawbag99 Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 11	Re: Anyone got info on PIPEX 1mb service? Well just my tuppence worth. Been on pipex 1mb for 5 weeks now. In the most happy with the service especially working stable email servers! Web browsing is lightning quick compared to NTL, and volia I can now access profiles.yahoo.com which was borked with ntls proxies in Glasgow but overall speed is slightly lower 119-120kB/s compared to 128kB/s on NTL. I also notice that if you have two downloads going web browsing speed takes a hit compared with NTLs service. News servers are very slow ~19-20kB/s but completion is excellent, not on par with Clara but useable. There seems to be an ongoing issue with them at the mo but at least they are accessable. Overall happy but the news servers better be working when my clara is up for renewal or it will be firefly 2mb with giganews...... BTW...I have not had reason to contact the support people yet but I am used to NTL so shouldnt be much worse hopefully!! Cheers to all who responded!!!