Telewest BB - any good?

As per subject.
Just moved home and BT can't swap the existing Telewest line over to
BT until the 9th (damn them), so I'm contemplating keeping the line so
I can get Telewest phone/BB up and running quickly.
I would appreciate some real-life opinions on their service, and
technical info regarding hardware requirements, IP allocation, ports
blocked or not, etc.

No furniture in there at the moment, more importantly no BB. Got to
get your priorities right

Ta

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one word....CRAP
"Steve Evans" <no@spam> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> As per subject.
> Just moved home and BT can't swap the existing Telewest line over to
> BT until the 9th (damn them), so I'm contemplating keeping the line so
> I can get Telewest phone/BB up and running quickly.
> I would appreciate some real-life opinions on their service, and
> technical info regarding hardware requirements, IP allocation, ports
> blocked or not, etc.
>
> No furniture in there at the moment, more importantly no BB. Got to
> get your priorities right
>
> Ta
>
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> steve <AT> steveevans <DOT> org

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 16:11:43 +0000 (UTC), "marky"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>one word....CRAP

Ooookay, any advances on 'Crap'?

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On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 16:11:43 +0000 (UTC), "marky"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>one word....CRAP
Do I take it then that you have immigrated to this country from some
other land and CRAP in your country's language means EXCELENT
in English ! .
Flighttracker .

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 15:32:06 +0100, Steve Evans <no@spam> wrote:



>I would appreciate some real-life opinions on their service,
My experience and opinions:-
paper billing is poor (arrives late with insufficient time to pay by their
specified date)
newsroups are (currently - touch wood, fingers crossed) good
email service has been wrecked by microsoft
web space ok
technical support via newsgroups is reasonable
technical support by phone - not used/required

>technical info regarding hardware requirements
erm - a computer with usb or ethernet interface - they rent you the cable modem
a mains supply point for their modem

>IP allocation
dynamic

> ports blocked or not, etc.
dunno - all the common stuff seems to run - but I don't use anything exotic.
If you want to run your own web server or summat it has to be password
protected.

HTH

Geo

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 17:33:26 GMT, Geo <hy1k-(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:
>email service has been wrecked by microsoft
Can you elaborate on this a little the mail service being poor does
not bother me one bit has I run my own mailserver but would like to
know why you are saying the problem is all down to Microsoft .
Flighttracker .

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 15:32:06 +0100, Steve Evans <no@spam> wrote:

>As per subject.
>Just moved home and BT can't swap the existing Telewest line over to
>BT until the 9th (damn them), so I'm contemplating keeping the line so
>I can get Telewest phone/BB up and running quickly.
>I would appreciate some real-life opinions on their service, and
>technical info regarding hardware requirements, IP allocation, ports
>blocked or not, etc.

I have found them to be really reliable here in the Black Country. It
is fast and, up until this week, I have had 14 months continuous up
time. It was down on Monday afternoon, but back on later.

The mail service is dodgy - refusing to connect - so I use yahoo for
mail.

News server was poor when I tried it - but I use individual.net
anyway.

I have been impressed with the availability and speed of the service
though.

Hardware - they provide the cable modem. CM has USB or ethernet
connection to a PC (or router). IP address is assigned using DHCP, but
in practise mine has stayed the same for the past year.

Not aware of any ports being blocked.

HTH

Noz
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<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>
> Can you elaborate on this a little the mail service being poor does
> not bother me one bit has I run my own mailserver but would like to
> know why you are saying the problem is all down to Microsoft .
> Flighttracker .

The mail servers run on MS Exchange. Microsoft have had some folks at BY
towers for a few weeks now and the platform still has "a few" authentication
issues.

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Craig

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 18:29:57 GMT, "Craig" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>>
>> Can you elaborate on this a little the mail service being poor does
>> not bother me one bit has I run my own mailserver but would like to
>> know why you are saying the problem is all down to Microsoft .
>> Flighttracker .
>
>The mail servers run on MS Exchange. Microsoft have had some folks at BY
>towers for a few weeks now and the platform still has "a few" authentication
>issues.
I am not getting any auth problems I have no problems downloading mail
either my problem is getting mail into my box .
Flighttracker .

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 18:53:20 +0100, Nozza
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 15:32:06 +0100, Steve Evans <no@spam> wrote:
>
>>As per subject.
>>Just moved home and BT can't swap the existing Telewest line over to
>>BT until the 9th (damn them), so I'm contemplating keeping the line so
>>I can get Telewest phone/BB up and running quickly.
>>I would appreciate some real-life opinions on their service, and
>>technical info regarding hardware requirements, IP allocation, ports
>>blocked or not, etc.
>
>I have found them to be really reliable here in the Black Country. It
>is fast and, up until this week, I have had 14 months continuous up
>time. It was down on Monday afternoon, but back on later.
>
>The mail service is dodgy - refusing to connect - so I use yahoo for
>mail.
>
>News server was poor when I tried it - but I use individual.net
>anyway.
>
>I have been impressed with the availability and speed of the service
>though.
>
>Hardware - they provide the cable modem. CM has USB or ethernet
>connection to a PC (or router). IP address is assigned using DHCP, but
>in practise mine has stayed the same for the past year.
>
>Not aware of any ports being blocked.
>
>HTH
>
>Noz

Cheers for that Noz, and all else who replied.

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