timewarrior2001

Its a strange one this.

Just read the whole thread.

He's not ripping off the pensioners as such.
He has told them for £10 a month they can share his connection and he will support them as much as he can.

Now yes T&C's say you must not share out of your house. What if you have a home office in an out building and a PC in the main house, thats acceptable but your still going to breach T&C's

He says neighbours, now if its wireless he's only gonna be realistically sharing with neighbours either side (and he did mention that he was only next door)
So what he has done is slightly enlarged his network, provided a hassle free connection for the pensioners and re-coups some of this initial outlay. Thats 3 PC's on one connection and within T&C's with the exception that its involving 2 other properties. Now to me thats NTL saying you cant do it because it screws them out of screwing others out of money. Not because of any affect it may have on the network.

I dont find too much wrong with that, I'm not certain that I find it acceptable but I'm not quite as against it as others, I know of lots of people that share with neighbours via wireless routers in lofts.

I dont think NTL will do too much, not in regards to this specific part, about his web hosting etc if it is indeed on his residential ntl connection maybe.

I doubt he will get more than a written warning.

And before I get flamed, I am not defending the guy just trying to look at it in a realistic way.

His charging £10 a month for internet access and unlimmited support is good I think, I know of shops that charge a £25 call out and then labour and parts on top. Talk about ripping of customers, well NTL is not going to offer them better by taking £10 a month and offering no onsite support is it?

Each to their own I guess.