Posts by Simon

MS takes Windows 3.11 out of embed to put to bed

imagine

imagine what it would be like running windows 3.11 on todays dual core machines

Virgin Media and BPI join forces to attack illegal filesharing

flaws in your plans

I recieved a letter yesterday telling me that my bandwidth is now being adjusted if I go over a certain quota a day, however I am a realist as someone who used to work for an ISP I would like to quickly point out a few facts,

firstly the above mentioned cancel DD, change number and start a fresh would not work due to the fact your physical line would remain the same from the exchange to your home and its on this that the broadband (adsl) is provisioned, if you however got a second line installed and got your broadband installed on this then excellent otherwise you need to wait 10 days for your line to be transferred to a new isp, maybe even ceased then provided again depending on how you do it.

secondly moving to another isp is pointless now anyway we live in a world of bandwidth throtling in the next couple of years those isps who dont already will on some scale throttle our speeds so all moving isp would do is delay the inevidatble.

it sucks but this is the world today