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After two days of struggling to get on the internet, two days of constantly being booted off messenger because Server down, I would not recommend any one thinking of going onto broadband, to use NTL! Its slow at the best of times (my sisters 56k dial up service is faster!), but just lately has been frustratingly sloooowwwww! A load of rubbish! NTH*E*L*L!
The roads are my race track!!
LOVE IS GIVING SOMEONE THE POWER TO DESTROY YOU, BUT TRUSTING THEM NOT TO DO IT.
i’ve used ntl’s 600 service for years now, and only ever had a connectivity problem once, during a routine server outage. If you are talking about being booted from messenger, i assume you mean the msn one, this is in fact due to microsoft server outages over the last few days and it appears to be mainly the peope using the free service (apparantley there is a paid one too) that are suffering.
if your service seems slow, i would suggest you get your pc checked for spyware and viruses, or try entering the proxy settings that your connection uses yourself.
There is a public list of proxies that ntl use and some seem to be better than others, worth trying a different one instead of letting internet explorer pick the one it wants to use.
of course, i could just have been lucky!
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
Aleister Crowley (1875 – 1947)Blackboard paint – Covers a multitude of sins!
Its the internet service in my area hooly, cant cope with demand apparently and this week they have started work to upgrade or something. Got so fed up with it, I phoned them. Its taken me all morning to try and post this. According to NTL, the work is ongoing. Great! Ongoing for how long I wonder!
First thing I did when started having more than the usual problems was virus scan, trojan and bot scan, adware scan etc, nothing turned up which is why I got in touch with NTL. My pc isn’t slow when working off line. Emails are getting through but sometimes up to 12 hours after originally sent!
You must be one of the lucky ones!The roads are my race track!!
LOVE IS GIVING SOMEONE THE POWER TO DESTROY YOU, BUT TRUSTING THEM NOT TO DO IT.
LOL – the only other thing i can suggest is use it at odd hours, but you already do! – as the cable service is obviously shared with everyone else in your area who is using it at the same time, also people watching cable telly drag your bandwidth down….
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
Aleister Crowley (1875 – 1947)Blackboard paint – Covers a multitude of sins!
Can’t grumble so far with Telewest’s broadband. They are giving 50% extra bandwidth with their packages here in the Midlands at the moment.
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Originally posted by GSX HooliganLOL – the only other thing i can suggest is use it at odd hours, but you already do! – as the cable service is obviously shared with everyone else in your area who is using it at the same time, also people watching cable telly drag your bandwidth down….
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
Aleister Crowley (1875 – 1947)Blackboard paint – Covers a multitude of sins!
Yeah well……..we’re all odd round here! And everyone round here is probably watching porno’s on cable while I am trying to surf! He he he ….!
The roads are my race track!!
LOVE IS GIVING SOMEONE THE POWER TO DESTROY YOU, BUT TRUSTING THEM NOT TO DO IT.
Hooly, definitely think you are very lucky with your service from NTL. I stumbled upon this whilst browsing………..
NTL Complaint
This a copy of a complaint letter that was actually received by NTL.Dear Cretins,
I have been an NTL customer since 9th July 2001, when I signed up for your 3-in-one deal for cable TV, cable modem, and telephone.
During this three-month period I have encountered inadequacy of service which I had not previously considered possible, as well as ignorance and stupidity of monolithic proportions. Please allow me to provide specific details, so that you can either pursue your professional prerogative, and seek to rectify these difficulties – or more likely (I suspect) so that you can have some entertaining reading material as you while away the working day smoking B&H and drinking vendor-coffee on the bog in your office.
My initial installation was cancelled without warning or notice, resulting in my spending an entire Saturday sitting on my fat arse waiting for your technician to arrive. When he did not arrive at all, I spent a further 57 minutes listening to your infuriating hold music, and the even more annoying Scottish robot woman telling me to look at your helpful website…. how? I alleviated the boredom to some small degree by playing with my testi*les for a few minutes – an activity at which you are no-doubt both familiar and highly adept.
The rescheduled installation then took place some two weeks later, although the technician did forget to bring a number of vital tools – such as a drill-bit, and his cerebrum.
Two weeks later, my cable modem had still not arrived. After several further telephone calls (actually 15 telephone calls over 4 weeks) my modem arrived … a total of six weeks after I had requested it, and begun to pay for it. I estimate that the downtime of your internet servers is roughly 35%… these are usually the hours between about 6pm and midnight, Monday to Friday, and most of the useful periods over the weekend.
I am still waiting for my telephone connection. I have made 9 telephone calls on my mobile to your no-help line this week, and have been unhelpfully transferred to a variety of disinterested individuals, who are it seems also highly skilled bollock jugglers.
I have been informed that a telephone line is available (and someone will call me back), that no telephone line is available (and someone will call me back), that I will be transferred to someone who knows whether or not a telephone line is available (and then been cut off), that I will be transferred to someone who knows whether or not a telephone line is available (and then been redirected to an answer machine informing me that your office is closed), that I will be transferred to someone who knows whether or not a telephone line is available (and then been redirected to the irritating Scottish robot woman…. and several other variations on this theme.
Doubtless you are no-longer reading this letter, as you have at least a thousand other dissatisfied customers to ignore, and also another one of those crucially important testicle-moments to attend to. Frankly I don’t care, it’s far more satisfying as a customer to voice my frustrations in print than to shout them at your unending hold music. Forgive me, therefore, if I continue.
I thought BT were sh*t, that they had attained the holy p**s-pot of god-awful customer relations, that no-one, anywhere, ever, could be more disinterested, less helpful or more obstructive to delivering service to their customers. That’s why I chose NTL, and because, well, there isn’t anyone else is there?
How surprised I therefore was, when I discovered to my considerable dissatisfaction and disappointment what a useless shower of b**tards you truly are. You are sputum-filled pieces of distended rectum – incompetents of the highest order. British Telecom – w**kers though they are – shine like brilliant beacons of success, in the filthy puss-filled mire of your seemingly limitless inadequacy.
Suffice to say that I have now given up on my futile and foolhardy quest to receive any kind of service from you. I suggest that you do likewise, and cease any potential future attempts to extort payment from me for the services which you have so pointedly and catastrophically failed to deliver
– any such activity will be greeted initially with hilarity and disbelief – although these feelings will quickly be replaced by derision, and even perhaps a small measure of bemused rage.
I enclose two small deposits, selected with great care from my cats litter tray, as an expression of my utter and complete contempt for both you, and your pointless company. I sincerely hope that they have not become desiccated during transit – they were satisfyingly moist at the time of posting, and I would feel considerable disappointment if you did not experience both their rich aroma and delicate texture. Consider them the very embodiment of my feelings towards NTL, and it’s worthless employees.
Have a nice day – may it be the last in you miserable short life, you irritatingly incompetent and infuriatingly unhelpful bunch of tw*ts,
Yours psychotically
John Doe [editor’s note: name changed to protect the innocent]
Its a fairly old letter but thought it summed up how alo6t of NTL customers feel.[
]The roads are my race track!!
LOVE IS GIVING SOMEONE THE POWER TO DESTROY YOU, BUT TRUSTING THEM NOT TO DO IT.
GO ON! DONATE! YOU KNOW YA WANNA!
PMSL – couldnt be happier with my service, well actually i could – they could lower the price a little!!!
perhaps ntl could give me free 1 meg and i would in return sing their praises all day!
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
Aleister Crowley (1875 – 1947)Blackboard paint – Covers a multitude of sins!
@Hooly – Haven’t you built your own broadband link with some coax and a few ignition coils yet? You must be slacking!
(Actually, I’ve been heavily into satellite tv over the years and you should see some of the things I have built…..)
cheap broadband = laptop plus 10 pound wireless network card, put it in the car and drive round. It’s amazing how many unsecured wireless home networks there are offering free internet access, plus of course all the files that xp shares without anyone knowing ( c$ – entire hard drive!!! ) that use default or blank passwords……
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
Aleister Crowley (1875 – 1947)Blackboard paint – Covers a multitude of sins!
A bit of snow and ISP goes tits up! Crap NTL! I have a degraded loss of service. Cannot retrieve emails and even NTL World homepage down! Thinking of a nice long letter on the same lines as above……..
LOVE IS GIVING SOMEONE THE ABILITY TO DESTROY YOU, THEN TRUSTING THEM NOT TO.
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, But rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, Vodka in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming…….WOO HOO, what a ride!
Try http://www.mail2web.com to get your mail via the Web if urgently needed
Thanks mate but it wont let me check mail for hotmail address. All other accounts allowed access but not hotmail?!!?
LOVE IS GIVING SOMEONE THE ABILITY TO DESTROY YOU, THEN TRUSTING THEM NOT TO.
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, But rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, Vodka in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming…….WOO HOO, what a ride!
in which case i would suggest that its microsofts server that is down, not ntl’s…
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
Aleister Crowley (1875 – 1947)Blackboard paint – Covers a multitude of sins!
Um no…..outage on mail and news groups and some ‘domains’……can now get on ntl homepage, but mail and newsgroups whatever still down.
Phoned them this morning hooly, when I couldnt read mail in OUTLOOK, and when I had trouble connecting some sites on the INTERNET and was told by the automated answer that there was a fault and technicians were aware and were working to rectify the problem as soon as possible…..LOVE IS GIVING SOMEONE THE ABILITY TO DESTROY YOU, THEN TRUSTING THEM NOT TO.
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, But rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, Vodka in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming…….WOO HOO, what a ride!
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