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Originally Posted by Jon T
I wonder what peoples feelings towards the proxies would be if NTL decided to make the caches(proxies) optional and that raised the cost of broadband to pay for all the extra off-network bandwidth that was being used.
Sounds like a "Damned if you do, and damned if you don't" situation to me.
All that's needed is for the proxies to be maintained(fixed?), their speed is sometimes pitifull, their automatic refresh appears to be non existant, and their DNS look-ups are too slow to accept changes in DNS records.
However as i've said, I think abolish compulsory transparent caching would result in higher costs to customers.
Jon
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I see where you're coming from John, & agree with you in principal, but the thing is-why should people have to pay
more for a BB service from ntl than they do for the equivalent ADSL service just because ntl's network is b0rked & oversubscribed? (& will only get worse as they continue with their new push to sign up new customers?)
Why should people have to pay £25.00 a month &
still have to keep switching proxies to get it to work? If I bought/rented a product, & kept having to 'fiddle' with it every time I wanted to use it just to get it to work, I'd be mighty ******ed of-the same applies here IMO.
Customers are paying ntl for a reliable product with good service, & they're simply not getting it due to ntl's inadequacies-Jeez they can't even provide a reliable email service, which surely must be regarded as a basic service in this day & age.
Abolishing the transparent caches
would raise BB costs undoubtedly, but that's the problem, ntl don't want to do that as they know they can't expect customers to keep paying extra just to get a basic working service, but they also can't expect customers to keep paying the going rate for a 3rd rate service either......