Anyone got info on PIPEX 1mb service? - Page 4

TigaSefi · 06-05-2004, 14:48

Apparently, to get a brillant News group service, u need to pay for a dedicated one.

zoombini · 06-05-2004, 14:59

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Originally Posted by Bifta

The news service has been faulty for weeks now.

Sounds familier, however, there is signs of recent upgrades & many happy customers. Not that I use the newsgroups, I dont have the time to trawl through them nor want to download massive binaries.

For every problem reported that I read, there were many coming back saying that they did not have a problem. Unlike NTl, we come back & sympathise & tell them the fix is "coming soon" or just live with it because "thats life".

So I think you have made my mind up for me, I shall go with them just to pi$$ you off. :pp

I only need 1 filter to run the rest of the phone system through & the modem is useless to me.

Bifta · 06-05-2004, 15:01

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Originally Posted by zoombini

So I think you have made my mind up for me, I shall go with them just to pi$$ you off. :pp

It won't pi$$ me off in the slightest, and with an attitude like that I think you should sign up with them, you deserve everything you get

Charlie_Bubble · 06-05-2004, 15:12

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Originally Posted by Bifta

The news service has been faulty for weeks now.

Yes, I noticed that, but on the other hand I noticed the NTL ones were broken for years!

Bifta · 06-05-2004, 15:21

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Originally Posted by Charlie_Bubble

Yes, I noticed that, but on the other hand I noticed the NTL ones were broken for years!

True, but I've left both companies in disgust

Admittedly though, the service from NTL despite it being pretty poor was still far FAR better than the one I experienced with Pipex.

zoombini · 06-05-2004, 15:48

I deserve a damn site more than I am getting from the NTL service & I have no doubt that I will get it with Pipex. Cu.

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!!!