Posts by Stuart Oram

Virgin to offer 100Mb/s broadband by year's end

Be Pro vs VM

ADSL 186m from exchange, sync 18Mbps down 2.2Mbps up

Real speeds 15Mbps down 1.8Mbps up

8IPs, No traffic shaping, No cap, £31pm

BE support is off-shore, call centre not so great on the few times I've used it, but email support top-notch (handled by the same call centre I believe).

Still yet to see Virgin match what I'm getting on BE, although I have to say if I relocated further from an exchange, I might have to go for the VM XXL.....

Wheels come off O2's data network

mobile.o2.co.uk

mobile.o2.co.uk all fine for me - non-iPhone, always used that APN.

Probaly just idata affected??

BT does Italian Job on London traffic lights

Nice job - made my morning hell!

Logging calls left right and centre for sites down on our WAN - both of our WAN providers affected!

Google says sorry as Gmail plummets out of the cloud

@ Kanhef

OH GOD...as someone who's been with AOL as an ISP since c.1998, and seen what used to be a pretty good service go downhill rapidly with the outsourcing of customer support and the takeover by CPW of the UK group...I'm looking for a route out....fast.

My own SMTP server on my own box going out via DynDNS MailHop is more reliable than their SMTP!

Speeds dropping like a stone....

Average of 20 outages a month on the DSL connection...

Anyone suggest a decent ISP with no thottling, uncapped (at least 60GB/mo) and no port 25 blocking? .. oh and maybe an uptime/speed SLA?

Autopilot blamed for Qantas plunge

@ Duncan H

You know what it's like...the minute that seat-belt sign goes off, everyone takes them off...advice from the inside...loosen, don't remove.....

BOFH: Remote access malarkey

Brilliant!

Love it! Thanks!

Sky drops download limit and tops satisfaction poll

SNR?

While I'm here ... can someone give me an idea of a "decent" SNR? I know how to find it, but have no idea what is good & what is bad, and I'm getting a lousy 96kbps-128kbps upload......few months ago was getting 320 consistently...

Million bank details sold on eBay

Retention of hard drives?

OK, so fine, contract out the disposal of equipment, but surely in ANY business at any level, hard drives should be retained in-house to be physically destroyed?! Surely that is just common sense.... something which many businesses seem to be lacking....

American ISP flashes phantom bandwidth cap

By no means is my usage heavy, but ...

Uptime

6d 09:53

kBytes Tx/Rx

760444 / 5834717

....And at times when I'm really using the net and not out most of the day, I can use that and more in a day....