Would would BT do...

Purely hypothetically, what would BT do about a
company that was sharing a single-user broadband
account, say for the sake of argument 'BT Business
500 Plug and Go', across a LAN of about 40 PC's
if they were to be told about it by a disgruntled
ex-employee?






James H

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:42:30 +0100 and in article <4125ff08$0$20250
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: Purely hypothetically, what would BT do about a
: company that was sharing a single-user broadband
: account, say for the sake of argument 'BT Business
: 500 Plug and Go', across a LAN of about 40 PC's
: if they were to be told about it by a disgruntled
: ex-employee?

They'd say 'that's nice' and then hang up. heh.
What's wrong with the above scenario please?

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chris

On 20 Aug 2004, in uk.telecom.broadband, chris wrote:

>What's wrong with the above scenario please?

BT often indicate a single PC is to be connected with their supplied
USB modem. Whether their T+C describe this more fully I know not.

If they were told, and unhappy, then unless the firm was only part
way into a 12 month contract, switching to another ISP would be an
easy matter and perhaps save them cash, so the informant might even
be doing the firm a favour, whatever his/her intentions :-) Peter M.
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PlusNet <http://tinyurl.com/24ymz> - I recommend them and save some cash.
Depends on account that is opened by new customer, but good value ISP IMO.

"J Houston" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Purely hypothetically, what would BT do about a
> company that was sharing a single-user broadband
> account, say for the sake of argument 'BT Business
> 500 Plug and Go', across a LAN of about 40 PC's
> if they were to be told about it by a disgruntled
> ex-employee?

They would do absolutely nothing. There is nothing in the terms and conditions
to say you cannot share the connection, they just will not support it if there
is a problem with it. I had Business 500 adsl 4 years ago and shared it over 3
pc's. 3 pc's or 40, it makes no difference.

"poster" <us-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On 20 Aug 2004, in uk.telecom.broadband, chris wrote:
>
>>What's wrong with the above scenario please?
>
> BT often indicate a single PC is to be connected with their supplied
> USB modem. Whether their T+C describe this more fully I know not.

Uhm, and even if so, a business tarif would be fine.... What kind of
business doesnt network PCs?

Gaz.

> Purely hypothetically, what would BT do about a
> company that was sharing a single-user broadband
> account, say for the sake of argument 'BT Business
> 500 Plug and Go', across a LAN of about 40 PC's
> if they were to be told about it by a disgruntled
> ex-employee?

They'd wonder how 40 employees could put up with having to share 512 kbs
between them :P

"J Houston" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Purely hypothetically, what would BT do about a
> company that was sharing a single-user broadband
> account, say for the sake of argument 'BT Business
> 500 Plug and Go', across a LAN of about 40 PC's
> if they were to be told about it by a disgruntled
> ex-employee?
>
>
Nothing at all. the only interest maybe, will be to
try and sell the customer a 1meg or 2 meg service :-)

Ian

> Purely hypothetically, what would BT do about a
> company that was sharing a single-user broadband
> account, say for the sake of argument 'BT Business
> 500 Plug and Go', across a LAN of about 40 PC's
> if they were to be told about it by a disgruntled
> ex-employee?
>

Let me guess, you're the disgruntled ex-employee? What, just been fired and
hoping to get a bit of revenge in?

"J Houston" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Purely hypothetically, what would BT do about a
> company that was sharing a single-user broadband
> account, say for the sake of argument 'BT Business
> 500 Plug and Go', across a LAN of about 40 PC's
> if they were to be told about it by a disgruntled
> ex-employee?
>


Some semi-interesting responses so far. That fact that BT's
'Business 500 Plug and Go' package is £29.99 a month
whereas their 'Share 500' package is £45 a month, and
their 'Network 500' package is £65 a month (all excluding
VAT) suggests that BT might no be as laissez-faire as
some in this NG have suggested...





James H

"J Houston" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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<snip disgruntled rant>

FFS - Grow up !