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| Thread ID: 22420 | 2002-07-20 23:45:00 | XTRA | Baldy (26) | Press F1 |
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| 63958 | 2002-07-22 20:52:00 | I await the results with interest. Given that Xtra are unable to send me any mail because they have to send it to the username I log in with (fubar@adsl.xtra.co.nz or similar) rather than the address I use with my domain name, I am not entirely sure that I am confident. Would have been nice to get told, but they don't do that for people with domain names. If it wasn't for F1, I wouldn't know that I could expext clean emails from now on. robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 63959 | 2002-07-22 21:48:00 | Yes, ihug have been doing this for months with "i-Spy", although it's not a free service. Over last month I think it was they gave all customers a free trial of the service, with promise of a good deal at the end of it if you signed up. Not sure what the deal was, but I had a few times when an email was stopped by the service and found it great. It sent an email just like you mention Baldy. One thing I disagree with - I don't think Xtra should advertise this new virus service as totally fool proof, people should still have virus protection installed (and know how to use it :O) Also in regards to P2P, I know a few people who sit online nearly all day downloading from KaZaA. It's really irritating, as it hogs bandwidth, especially if you are in a company internet situtation and your trying to download stuff for work. I mean I agree p2p is great and I download the odd song, but I don't go overboard and sit on it ALL DAY. Plus, as always mentioned, if you don't like your ISP go somewhere else. You have the right to choose, there are heaps of ISPs around doing great deals. If your on ADSL, well it's kinda tough, and hopefully TelstraClear's service is just around the corner! |
codegirl (1038) | ||
| 63960 | 2002-07-22 22:27:00 | Ahoy codegirl, It's the people like me who sit here 24/7 with out p2p applications on that make it possible for you to get the occasional song. I dished out over 60 gig on from my inner city cable modem in a year when audio galaxy was going, and because i was monitoring the bandwidth, i can tell you with certainty, most of that never left the country. BTW as i pay almost $60/month as part of my phone bill with telstra to have this 24/7 128k-bit connection, i feel i have the right to use it. Just to further the point i made above, the southern cross cable, the one that runs a ring from america to North Island, Australia, and Back to america again, is another underutilized recourse. Anyway, enough of that.. i'm off to have breakfast... Morning all! Chris. |
Chris Wilson (431) | ||
| 63961 | 2002-07-22 22:47:00 | Chris - Not a dig at the people who know what they are doing with their connections, more at the people who have no idea and just go at it nearly 24/7 with no concern for others or the companies internet bill. |
codegirl (1038) | ||
| 63962 | 2002-07-22 23:04:00 | Actually you have a point, There were heaps in the old napster days that had huge resourses available via their company lans.. bloody fast they were too! These days I'm using DC++ on the orcon hub, so it's stricly NZ traffic. I hope that xtra can cope with the 330 meg of files dished out by me last night! |
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