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On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Shaun Orchard wrote: > Except that it's not just a removal of 2 hours. It's the removal of the > whole weekend as well (ADSL customers get weekends offpeak, ADSL2+ customers > do not). That is where the fury comes from. Ah, you're right. I'd missed that bit. > There is also the recent shift from Entanet being reasonably open to being > quite closed (and trying to go around their resellers). This is evident in > the TBB forums where Entanet seem to be doing things without telling their > resellers first. It's certainly different as to how it was a year or two > ago. Not experienced this myself. Will need to dig deeper ... Cheers, Gordon > > Shaun > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Gordon Henderson > <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx<gordon%2Bdcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: > >> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Rob Beard wrote: >> >>> On 14/01/2009 08:49, Henry Bremridge wrote: >>>> For those who use UKFSN, they were upgrading their lines last night and >> this morning: >>>> - Connections to some US sites are broken >>>> - VoIP does not seem to work >>>> >>>> Entanet "are aware of the problem"... >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Is it just supposed to be affecting UKFSN or Enta as a whole? I'm with >>> an Enta reseller and things seem okay here. >> >> It is/was Enta as a whole, although it seems OK now. (I'm an Entanet >> reseller in a similar way to UKFSN) >> >>> Saying that though, I've put in a request to leave Enta due to their >>> possible peak and off peak time changes... >>> >> http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/showthreaded.php?Board=entanet&Number=3535483 >> >> What Enta want to do is move the ADSL2 connections to the same format as >> their ADSL2+ connections, where off-peak is midnight to 8am. For me, this >> isn't going to be much of an issue as almost all my customers are business >> ones, so rarely in the office after 6pm anyway, but the business ADSL2 >> service has of-peak from 8pm to 8am (residential 10pm to 8am). >> >> I'd like to ask, moving it 2 hours is hardly cause to leave them, is it? >> The only poeple it might affect is the massive p2p users... >> >> However they withdrew that announcement - probably after being told that >> 14 days notice was not enough. >> >> I suspect they'll want to move the data caps in the same way too where you >> buy "top-ups" if you need to go over the cap. These top-up's don't expire >> though, so if you buy a 10GB top-up and only use 5GB of it, the remainder >> is carried over. Weird scheme, but probably reasonable. >> >> What I do like about Enta is that they're reasonably clear about their >> network usage - and fully clear about the limits, caps, etc. unlike some >> ISPs who have rather "wooly" "Acceptable Use" policys ... >> >> Saying that, they've just cut-off a customer of mine because they didn't >> get the direct debit - because the customer changed company names, sent in >> a DD from the new company, but they didn't update their systems >> internally. Oh the joy I'm going to have sorting that one out )-: >> >>> Looks like there is something on the routing problems here: >>> >> http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/showthreaded.php?Board=entanet&Number=3544704 >> >> Enta did post that they were upgrading a router in Telehouse Metro on >> http://noc.enta.net/ but I guess it didn't work out quite as planned... >> >> Cheers, >> >> Gordon >> >> -- >> The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG >> http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list >> FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html >> > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html