* Posts by Jacqui Caren

7 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Nov 2007

'The People's' cell operator to offer expensive data - but it's for cheridee

Jacqui Caren

Re: There aren't many charities I give to nowadays

"A few months ago, working from home, I noticed a car pull up outside (we live in a cul de sac). Out got 4 guys, clipboards and lanyards at the ready, and they proceeded to flashmob the street, for .... Macmillan Cancer."

We had similar for RSPCA. Only the scumbags doing this targeted little old ladies and threatened to remove their pets unless they filled in an "assessment form". A pensioner friend was almost caught out by this but they failed when asked for her bank details - she does not have a bank account!

We called Surrey police who said it is legal and not their problem. We contacted the charity who said that it is an agency and they are not legally responsible for these activities.

RSCPA has been on my shit list since this (and their brutal killing of ten rehomable GSD's in wales)

BT and Virgin sue over £10m state-funded Birmingham broadband

Jacqui Caren

MAN's

I see nothing wrong with establishing MAN's - networks that are city local and do not compete with either BT or Virgin. Then allow companies such as BT and Virgin to offer secondary services such as internet connectivity and phone services to the MAN "stakeholders".

The big problem with this model is that it takes the very lucrative "last mile" out of the hands of the telco's and make switching providers quick and easy!

No idea if the MAN network model is commercially viable these days - but in the bad old days the MAN would provide access to local services as 10Mbit speeds - today this would be Gigabit speeds making transfer of volume data (such as video) between local businesses trivial.

Other businesses such as gas companies, CCTV, etc can piggyback onto the MAN.

It also means a city no longer has a multitude of providers needing the rights to dig up its streets as it would mean non MAN lines within the city would become commercially non viable.

Unisys to craft its own X64 server virtualization

Jacqui Caren

GIF compression

I wonder how many of the open source packages they plan to use have licences that are in direct conflict with thier stabce of GIF compression exortion?

BT 'security upgrade' causes email headaches

Jacqui Caren

SMTP verify for ISP incoming email

This makes SMB mail services useless and means that you can no longer SAV incoming email from your ISP.

This is the same BT who provide fixed IP DSL in the middle of 'dynamic' blocks with '-dsl' in the rDNS which make it useless for SMTP.

Furthermore they will NOT allow you to configure the rDNS which makes it no better than a much cheaper dynIP.

BT/yahoo are just looking to screw as much out of as many customers (left) as possible.

How the BBC plans to save your ISP

Jacqui Caren

@fiber network

But NThell already provide fibre to the home[0]!

At least that is what a last months flyer trying to get people to sign up to more than thier yoyo broadband was inferring.

It also inferred that bandwidth was not an issue - because fibre can handle thousand of channels at once.

Jacqui

[0[ if you can call copper fibre.

Europe hits one million FTTH broadband connections

Jacqui Caren

Ntl just says it provides fibre

And in glorious blighty where spin is far more important than facts we get NTHell^WVirgin writing to customers to say just how good thier *fibre* connection is.

Hell, if they could only keep thier coax network going it would be impressive.

BT and Virgin Media to report broadband slowdown

Jacqui Caren

Support costs

Have BT and Virgin ever considered that useless and expensive (1UKP per minute!) support just may be the reason that people just migrate rather than spend beteen 5 and 10UKP to let thier ISP know they have buggered things up every week.

Yes virgin *are* dropping cablemodems in my area every weekend which initialy caused a lot of support calls. I and others managed to convince lots of peeps to move provider instead::-)

Like many ISPs BTworld and NTHell^WVirgin are both 'no support' services - when they stop working you drop them and move elsewhere. Surely the marketing folks *know* people would not put up with zero/expensive support for only a short period before going elsewhere.