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(Msg. 16) Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:47 am
Post subject: Re: Laptop in France and dialup internet. [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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CT wrote:
> Krusty wrote:
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> > <sobs uncontrollably>
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> > 17 quid pm for 16Kbps, apparently.
> >
> > I hate you.
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> Eh? I thought Sky was a maximum of £10/month.
It's 17 if you're not in a 'Sky enabled' area. Otherwise it's something
like a fiver if you've got the TV & phone package too.
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(Msg. 17) Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:47 am
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Krusty wrote:
> CT wrote:
> > Eh? I thought Sky was a maximum of £10/month.
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> It's 17 if you're not in a 'Sky enabled' area.
Ah, right.
> Otherwise it's something like a fiver if you've got
> the TV & phone package too.
The minimum (2Mb) is free and you don't need to have their phone
package. I just have Sky TV and pay a fiver for the 8Mb upgrade.
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(Msg. 18) Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:14 pm
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:39:37 -0800, Cab wrote:
> France has come on in leaps and bounds with regards to the 'net
> connection over the last few years. I've got a 28Mb line at home that
> gives me phone, 'net and TV, with a fixed IP addy and no caps for the
> princely sum of £20 pm.
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> I've seen offers recently for 100Mb lines for around the same price,
> FFS.
Blimey. L'internet a grande vitesse!
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(Msg. 19) Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:42 pm
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In article <fq3nnl$3nv$1@registered.motzarella.org>, prawn wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:39:37 -0800, Cab wrote:
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>> I've seen offers recently for 100Mb lines for around the same price,
>> FFS.
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> Blimey. L'internet a grande vitesse!
One of our sales bods is resident in Japan and he gets 100mb internet
(over fibre) for a good bit less than I pay for 8mb.. And their ISPs
actively discourage people from taking DSL lines rather than fibre.
Phil.
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(Msg. 20) Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:49 am
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On Feb 27, 1:42 pm, Timo Geusch <tnewsSPAMME... DeleteThis @unixconsult.co.uk>
wrote:
> darsy <dar... DeleteThis @sticky.co.uk> writes:
> > it won't last, though - cheap unmetered high speed broadband's going
> > to tank sooner rather than later. It's already about to in the UK (for
> > UK values of "cheap", of course").
>
> Unless of course the ISPs are allowed to properly analyse the customers
> data stream and insert lots of ads that'll somehow magically pay for all
> of this.
haha - I was involved in a start-up ISP trying to fund bandwidth
charges through targeted advertising back in 2000. It didn't work
then, and I can't see it working now.
> > Blame iPlayer.
>
> Na, that's just the excuse du jour.
oh, I know.
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(Msg. 21) Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:32 am
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On 26 Feb, 23:43, ginge <the.gingeREM... DeleteThis @THISgmail.com> wrote:
> In article <47c49f2c$0$24964$426a3...@news.free.fr>,
> o.f.n.u.... DeleteThis @la.poste.net says...
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> > Simon Wilson wrote:
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> > > Failing that don't forget a) power adapter too, b) screwdriver to
> > > unscrew plates etc, when you find that the hotel in which you are
> > > staying has hard-wired telephones.
>
> > A screwdriver *AND* this webpage:
> >http://goctruc.free.fr/Telephonie/PriseT.html
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> ...which you can download after plugging your modem in.
Page babelfished and saved to the laptop.
On a whim I went, against my better judgement, to the local Currys
Digital - where I found an European modem adapter on the shelf for 97p
- at the till they charged me 7p. It seems to have more spikes and
studs than an overpierced youth who looks like they went face first
into a fishing tackle box but certainly includes a French adapter.
Regards,
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(Msg. 22) Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:20 pm
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Timo Geusch wrote:
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> Unless of course the ISPs are allowed to properly analyse the customers
> data stream and insert lots of ads that'll somehow magically pay for all
> of this.
Looks like BT are actually trying this. See down there somewhere. Not
exactly a popular move.
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(Msg. 23) Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:45 am
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Simon Wilson <siwilson DeleteThis @NODAMNSPAM.hotmail.com> writes:
> Timo Geusch wrote:
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>>
>> Unless of course the ISPs are allowed to properly analyse the customers
>> data stream and insert lots of ads that'll somehow magically pay for all
>> of this.
>
> Looks like BT are actually trying this. See down there somewhere. Not
> exactly a popular move.
Several ISPs both here and in the US are looking at this, if what I read
on t'Internet is to be believed.
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(Msg. 24) Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:51 am
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darsy <darsyx DeleteThis @sticky.co.uk> writes:
> On Feb 27, 1:42 pm, Timo Geusch <tnewsSPAMME... DeleteThis @unixconsult.co.uk>
> wrote:
>> darsy <dar... DeleteThis @sticky.co.uk> writes:
>
>> > it won't last, though - cheap unmetered high speed broadband's going
>> > to tank sooner rather than later. It's already about to in the UK (for
>> > UK values of "cheap", of course").
>>
>> Unless of course the ISPs are allowed to properly analyse the customers
>> data stream and insert lots of ads that'll somehow magically pay for all
>> of this.
>
> haha - I was involved in a start-up ISP trying to fund bandwidth
> charges through targeted advertising back in 2000. It didn't work
> then, and I can't see it working now.
Neither can I, but that won't stop them from trying. It'll just separate
Internet users even more by splitting them into those who are willing to
pay for a decent ad-free service and the flooded-with-ads pikeys who
don't know any better.
>> > Blame iPlayer.
>>
>> Na, that's just the excuse du jour.
>
> oh, I know.
I didn't doubt that...
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