Re: Who made the law?

2012-08-30 Thread Leo Lapworth
On 30 August 2012 21:28, Mark Fowler wrote: > On Thursday, 30 August 2012 at 14:14, Ash Berlin wrote: > > On 30 Aug 2012, at 18:47, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > > Where is the usage policy of #london.pm IRC channel. > > > > We don't have one. We should have one. And not just for irc, but for the

Re: Who made the law?

2012-08-30 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thursday, 30 August 2012 at 14:14, Ash Berlin wrote: > On 30 Aug 2012, at 18:47, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > Where is the usage policy of #london.pm IRC channel. > We don't have one. We should have one. And not just for irc, but for the mailing lists and for real live events. Here, let me

Re: Who made the law?

2012-08-30 Thread Ash Berlin
On 30 Aug 2012, at 18:47, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > Where is the usage policy of #london.pm IRC channel. > > At least two people got kicked today, one for what has been traditional > banter for the last ten years, and another for questioning that kick. > > Without agreed guidelines this is ar

Who made the law?

2012-08-30 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Where is the usage policy of #london.pm IRC channel. At least two people got kicked today, one for what has been traditional banter for the last ten years, and another for questioning that kick. Without agreed guidelines this is arbitrary. Is this what we do these days?

Re: Which sucks least? Sky, Talktalk to BT broadband?

2012-08-30 Thread Yan Fitterer
I'm with them. No issues. You can configure pretty much everything from their web systems. Only drawback IMHO: support during office hours only. Not that I've ever actually needed it... oh- and price: they were not cheap last I checked. But they remain the only ISP that ever picked the phone

Re: Which sucks least? Sky, Talktalk to BT broadband?

2012-08-30 Thread Mike Whitaker
On 30 Aug 2012, at 13:42, Andrew Beattie wrote: > > On 30 Aug 2012, at 10:57, William Blunn wrote: >> If you want a "technical" style service, you could go for AAISP > > I might go with them just on the strength of their website.I just looked > at http://www.aa.net.uk/broadband.html and fo

Re: Which sucks least? Sky, Talktalk to BT broadband?

2012-08-30 Thread Andrew Beattie
On 30 Aug 2012, at 10:57, William Blunn wrote: > If you want a "technical" style service, you could go for AAISP I might go with them just on the strength of their website.I just looked at http://www.aa.net.uk/broadband.html and found them talking about ADSL1, ADSL2+, FTTC, FTTP, LLU and

Re: Which sucks least? Sky, Talktalk to BT broadband?

2012-08-30 Thread Peter Corlett
On 30 Aug 2012, at 10:57, William Blunn wrote: [...] > If you want a "technical" style service, you could go for AAISP (includes > native IPv6!) or Zen, though you will tend to have to pay more per gigabyte. AAISP's marginal cost per gigabyte[0] is only slightly more expensive than Zen in the da

Re: Which sucks least? Sky, Talktalk to BT broadband?

2012-08-30 Thread David Hodgkinson
Sky have been rock solid for me in NW1. I went with them largely because they have the old Easynet unbundled infrastructure. I get 10MB/s that doesn't drop off in the evening. We get our phone line from them too. It's also nice to have free "The Cloud" wifi when out and about. And as mentioned,

Re: Which sucks least? Sky, Talktalk to BT broadband?

2012-08-30 Thread William Blunn
On 30/08/2012 07:15, Andrew Beattie wrote: i am moving out of the london.pm area, into a broadband wasteland in PA17 5DA, where the nearest exchange is here: http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/WSWEM What, in the option of London.pm would be my least lame broadband option? Your option

Re: Which sucks least? Sky, Talktalk to BT broadband?

2012-08-30 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Hello > From: "Michael Lush" > To: "London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers" > Sent: Thursday, 30 August, 2012 8:18:12 AM > Subject: Re: Which sucks least? Sky, Talktalk to BT broadband? > > I'm a long term user/fan of Zen (http://www.zen.co.uk). While not > the cheapest they have terrific customer support

Re: Which sucks least? Sky, Talktalk to BT broadband?

2012-08-30 Thread Dominic Thoreau
On 30 August 2012 07:15, Andrew Beattie wrote: > i am moving out of the london.pm area, into a broadband wasteland in PA17 > 5DA, where the nearest exchange is here: > > http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/WSWEM > > What, in the option of London.pm would be my least lame broadband option?

Re: Which sucks least? Sky, Talktalk to BT broadband?

2012-08-30 Thread William Blunn
On 30/08/2012 10:16, Jérôme Étévé wrote: I've been with bethere for phone and broadband for a while and never had any major problem. The page at the foot of the link http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/WSWEM in the OP's question shows that O2/Be doesn't have service at the OP's excha

Re: Which sucks least? Sky, Talktalk to BT broadband?

2012-08-30 Thread Jérôme Étévé
I've been with bethere for phone and broadband for a while and never had any major problem. J. On 30 August 2012 08:18, Michael Lush wrote: > I'm a long term user/fan of Zen (http://www.zen.co.uk). While not > the cheapest they have > terrific customer support and reliability. > > -- > Michael

Re: Which sucks least? Sky, Talktalk to BT broadband?

2012-08-30 Thread Michael Lush
I'm a long term user/fan of Zen (http://www.zen.co.uk). While not the cheapest they have terrific customer support and reliability. -- Michael On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Andrew Beattie wrote: > i am moving out of the london.pm area, into a broadband wasteland in PA17 > 5DA, where the ne