DOS attack logged by Netgear router DG836G

Roderick Stewart wrote:
> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Peter wrote:
>> At home I am with ZEN who have been excellent - except they will
>> terminate service without any warning if you exceed the monthly 50GB
>> download figure (which happened once, due to a combination of stupid
>> usage including some Ipad updating from "Icloud" (avoid enabling
>> Icloud).
>
> I intend to avoid anything on the internet that contains the word
> "cloud", as it seems to mean something like "keeping all your important
> personal stuff on somebody else's computer and allowing them to decide
> how and when it gets moved from one place to another". No thanks.
>
> Rod.

I am working on a personalised pleasure device known as the Iwank.

Should be in a stocking near you by Xmas 2015.

Before that I am launching a new credit card called Iwant, and a new
banking service called Igot.

The Natural Philosopher <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote

>Roderick Stewart wrote:
>> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Peter wrote:
>>> At home I am with ZEN who have been excellent - except they will
>>> terminate service without any warning if you exceed the monthly 50GB
>>> download figure (which happened once, due to a combination of stupid
>>> usage including some Ipad updating from "Icloud" (avoid enabling
>>> Icloud).
>>
>> I intend to avoid anything on the internet that contains the word
>> "cloud", as it seems to mean something like "keeping all your important
>> personal stuff on somebody else's computer and allowing them to decide
>> how and when it gets moved from one place to another". No thanks.
>>
>> Rod.
>
>I am working on a personalised pleasure device known as the Iwank.
>
>Should be in a stocking near you by Xmas 2015.
>
>Before that I am launching a new credit card called Iwant, and a new
>banking service called Igot.

Very funny

Iwank seems quite apt given the Apple fanbois, too...

Apple's philosophy of assuming constant and free and very fast
internet access is ridiculous in Europe. Mind you, I wouldn't mind
0.01% of the billions being showed to the GSM networks by teenagers on
£30/m contracts.

Phil W Lee <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote

>>At home I am with ZEN who have been excellent - except they will
>>terminate service without any warning if you exceed the monthly 50GB
>
>Not in my experience.
>
>Firstly, you can still get through to the Zen pages to top up your
>allowance or regrade to a higher package, and once topped up or
>regraded, service to the rest of the net resumes within about a
>minute, 24/7, 52 weeks of the year.
>
>Secondly you can have a "bank" of additional usage allowance, which
>sits there until you need it. It will stay available indefinitely,
>unless you go over your allowance and use some, and the remainder will
>still be there for any future over-run.
>
>Thirdly, they will send you emails advising of your rate of use - at
>50%, 75% 90% & 100% of your monthly allowance (there might be emails
>at 95% and/or 99% as well - I can't remember). These emails go to
>every email address you have notified them of in your contact details
>at the customer portal, and I have always received them very promptly
>after passing those thresholds.

That's true; they do email you.

>So if avoiding any chance of service interruption is important to you,
>it is very easy to avoid getting cut off through exceeding your
>allowance, and if it is less critical, it is very easy and quick to
>get reconnected.

You have to buy a fairly pricey data pack. Or you wait till the 1st of
the following month, when they reconnect you automatically.

>I've been over quota three times, once resolved by regrading and once
>by getting additional allowance - the third time I already had
>additional allowance, unused from the time before (and I keep it that
>way now, just in case the kids get silly).
>They even supply, free of charge, an applet that sits in the taskbar
>of a windows machine and keeps you up to date on your monthly usage,

I didn't know about that.

>and through which you can check amount used, amount remaining, line
>speed, all sorts of historical data, and even regrade or purchase
>additional allowance for the monitored account.
>
>I have to wonder what more you think they could do.

They could avoid a cutoff by simply billing you at the existing rate,
so if you e.g. pay £20/m for 50GB and you used up 100GB your next bill
is £40.

ZEN do remain IMHO the best domestic ISP, for generally excellent
customer service and very low downtime. But when I recently considered
them for the office too, and tried to speak to them about various
options, I failed to get through to anybody who seemed to know
anything.

Peter wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>
>> Roderick Stewart wrote:
>>> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Peter wrote:
>>>> At home I am with ZEN who have been excellent - except they will
>>>> terminate service without any warning if you exceed the monthly 50GB
>>>> download figure (which happened once, due to a combination of stupid
>>>> usage including some Ipad updating from "Icloud" (avoid enabling
>>>> Icloud).
>>> I intend to avoid anything on the internet that contains the word
>>> "cloud", as it seems to mean something like "keeping all your important
>>> personal stuff on somebody else's computer and allowing them to decide
>>> how and when it gets moved from one place to another". No thanks.
>>>
>>> Rod.
>> I am working on a personalised pleasure device known as the Iwank.
>>
>> Should be in a stocking near you by Xmas 2015.
>>
>> Before that I am launching a new credit card called Iwant, and a new
>> banking service called Igot.
>
> Very funny
>
> Iwank seems quite apt given the Apple fanbois, too...
>
> Apple's philosophy of assuming constant and free and very fast
> internet access is ridiculous in Europe. Mind you, I wouldn't mind
> 0.01% of the billions being showed to the GSM networks by teenagers on
> £30/m contracts.

Id settle for a SDSL connection over my existing wires.

In article <jbd0hs$3bl$(E-Mail Removed)>, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
> I am working on a personalised pleasure device known as the Iwank.
>
> Should be in a stocking near you by Xmas 2015.
>
> Before that I am launching a new credit card called Iwant, and a new
> banking service called Igot.

Shouldn't the banking service be called "Theygot"?

Rod.
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On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:18:19 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in <jbd0hs$3bl$(E-Mail Removed)>:

>I am working on a personalised pleasure device known as the Iwank.
>
>Should be in a stocking near you by Xmas 2015.

The FuFme genital drive was way ahead of its time. Such a pity that it could
only be fitted in a 5.1/4" drive bay; otherwise it might have been a
rip-roaring success.

<http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/fuck-u-fuck-me/>


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Roderick Stewart wrote:
> In article <jbd0hs$3bl$(E-Mail Removed)>, The Natural Philosopher
> wrote:
>> I am working on a personalised pleasure device known as the Iwank.
>>
>> Should be in a stocking near you by Xmas 2015.
>>
>> Before that I am launching a new credit card called Iwant, and a new
>> banking service called Igot.
>
> Shouldn't the banking service be called "Theygot"?
>

Not until I have stolen all the money.

> Rod.