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Originally Posted by andrew_wallasey
Im sorry but what a stupid post. Agreed most modern day PCs come with a NIC built in but how could NTL provide a service to people who don't have NICs? I mean who is going to install this NIC in the customers machine because its treading on very dodgy ground ntl engineers opening up customers PCs to install a NIC. What would happen if he broke the machine, who would pay for the repair? So for the average joe bloggs who had no idea about computers and just wants faster internet he would not install a NIC in his computer and would be perfectly happy with USB.
So what NTL have done is perfectly correct providing people with the option of what they want.
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Calm down a bit m8. You may disagree with what GC says but that doesn't mean his view is stupid. Looking at it especially in the context of this entire discussion (which I suspect you haven't read, or at least not properly) I think it's quite sensible.
All he is saying is that NTL should encourage people to connect via ethernet where possible instead of USB. We've discussed already at some length the pitfalls of NTL engineers installing NICs in customer PCs. But GC makes clear that while he thinks NTL offering free NICs might be a good idea in itself, he accepts they would have to totally disassociate themselves from the install side of it. Nothing stupid there at all.