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Originally Posted by Elliot Coad
*sniffs/blubbers* NTL suck!  Now I know the technical term "over-selling my part of the BB network" I can use it more. I bet it is that because my friend who lives a few hundred yards away can't play XBL with the lag either.
Thanks for your sympathy and help Towny and co.
lol, I'm off to find the correct forum to find out what's up with sending and receiving email, it says I can't login! Mofo... |
aaah, another old chestnut. This is normally caused by one of ntl's 6 mail servers falling over and the other five struggling to cover the extra workload. There are two solutions:
1. If your mail client software (outlook express ro whatever) will allow you, increase the length of time it will try to connect to the mail server before it times out. If you can be bothered to wait a couple of minutes to get connected to the mail server, it will normally let you on eventually.
2. If you have an alternative paid-for email addy (some webmail accounts are also suitable for this - try Yahoo), go to ntlworld.com and permanently re-direct your inbount @ntlworld.com addys to the alternative. All your ntlworld mail will arrive via this alternative addy with no probs. I set this up myself about 6 months ago and haven't looked back.