I <3 Blueyonder
BigMadSteve
Join Date: 2003-02-12 Member: 13472Members
Join Date: 2003-02-12 Member: 13472Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">My ISP</div> I just got an e-mail from them today saying that they are bumping all 1MB and 2MB services to 1.5MB and 3MB respectively. This is all for free! I've never heard of any other company doing this.
Blueyonder is probably the best ISP I've been with. Firstly, they've got an invincible FTP server where you can get tons of gaming files (NS included), they are always quick should the service go down. And then this.
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Blueyonder is probably the best ISP I've been with. Firstly, they've got an invincible FTP server where you can get tons of gaming files (NS included), they are always quick should the service go down. And then this.
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Yay for ISP competition
too bad the internet is damn unreliable. but no bandwidth limits
where is the blueyonder FTP server? is it for people with BY cable only? the only one i remember was before BYgames went down
there aren't many isps down here in nz so prices are sky high. you guys are so lucky.
I live over in the US and use their FTP server frequently. Gets me better transfers than Fileplanet usually.
And if anyone says AOL sucks, give me a single reason why, other than its user base.
I'm on it and other 56kers get about 150-200 pings... i get 200-6k pings. And it constantly disconnects me.
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Mwuahah. "You should have gone to BY!"
It's the first and last company i'm with.
"j00 5H0U1[) H4\/3 g0/\/3 70 133754\/3R5!"
Even though i have 8mbit DSL, my ISP sucks because of pings and unstable connections. It's hella fast, but the latency is crap.
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This is gonna get lengthy, so gather round to hear ol' Nemmys tales of his very first venture into the Intraweb.
Once upon a time in late 2000, Nemmy had finally managed to get online, not a small feat seeing that he had no job to pay it back then, that his mother knew of his, call it 'obsessive', tendencies, and that there were only dial-up providers in Germany at this point. But, oh, AOL had a great offer: Sign up right now, and you'll be one of the first to get a special deal on our great flatrate once the infrastructure is finished!
So, he did.
At first, everything was nice. It was a great feeling to check websites, to mail friends, and to read news independently from TV restrictions or weekdays. But then, Nemmy decided he wanted to try this cool game 'Counter Strike' out. Y'see, Nemmy had double-line-ISDN, which, while provocing little more than hysteric giggles from most of you, was the fastest thing a German not living in heavily urbanized areas could get at that point. So Nemmy assumed he'd get relatively acceptable pings.
Boy, was he wrong.
Nobody expected two-digit lag. But 500 ms latency to a server five blocks down the road? C'mon, at this rate, it would've made more sense to use morse code.
A little later, AOL decided that it was time to automatically update its software - Nemmys computer disagreed, resulting in the first, but by far not the last AOL inuced Windows-reinstall (Nemmy still suspects that this, admittedly quite amateurish, reinstall was what eventually broke his trusty 5.25"HDD.).
A few format:cs later, Nemmy got mail from AOL. "We're sorry", they said, "but our flatrate plans have to be postponed for the time being. And so that you don't feel the pain of that too much, we're going to kick you in the private parts right now by upping our dial-up prices!" Nemmy wasn't amused. He started searching for a new ISP.
When he had found one, he realized it'd be best to un-install AOLs software. This time, the software disagreed.
Nemmy still doesn't know how they did this, but it took him <i>two</i> complete formats to get rid of the last traces of AOLs oh so user friendly 'integrated' system. At the end of this fatefull night, he vowed never to touch anything related to AOL again. So far, it worked out for him.
That's Blueyonder's FTP server for those who were asking. Demos, mods and NS <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Here are my reasons for liking them:
Their browsing software is by far the fastest I've experienced yet, as well as most streamlined.
The speed of Dialup loading up a page is still damned fast.
The connection is quite consistent, almost never flucuating(other than the rare down time for maintenance).
The multitude of extras in the areas of movies, music, and subscriptions to the online portions of many movies.
I myself have never had a problem installing/uninstalling AOL, but I've only been around since 4.0(i.e., 5-6 years). Their rates have never once increased on me. They continually give us a damned good deal($20 a month for DSL 256kup/down, for a year is my current deal, and because I gotta pay the local **** $30 bucks[which is NOT aol, its pacbell], it comes out to $50).
Really, the only thing I've ever not liked about them is that I don't have the option to be a "always on" internet thingy.
£30 a month for 512k, now 700k. Always been £30, good price, fantastic service. BY really do own all.
At the moment I have 98 AOL free-trial cds. Not sure what to do with them though, any suggestions?
Microwave'em
Frisbees
wall ornament(Just use the shiny side, it's pretty in sunlight!)
That's what I've done with them. Any other good ideas? I heard that some people actually run them in their CD drives <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo-->
/me sends.
£30 a month for 512k, now 700k. Always been £30, good price, fantastic service. BY really do own all.
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Its £25 for 512 ^^ (unless you dont have telewest tv or phone , then its £30 )