Looks like Virgin are responding well to the loss of Sky

[Kell_ee001]

Originally Posted by Haly

They should go upstairs fine. My housemate upstairs has a seperate account and they installed it fine, although I didn't notice how they got the cable upstairs.

I'm in an upstairs flat and they simply trail the cable up the outside wall You don't even notice it though unless you're looking for it.

[Pebs]

I had a package through the door tis morning saying this Virgin Media is being installed next week :/ I guess MtE has cunning plans afoot...I didnt realise they did all the other stuff though. I'd be interested in the phone but the Sky 'package' I have (all channels) is here to stay, at least until they change the cards again. I cancelled the subscriptin about 4 years ago but they forgot to physically switch it all off so it costs me nuffink! \o/

[Daz]

Originally Posted by Mark

Ooh, yes. I could shove a nameserver on my box (had one on the old one) and host a DNS zone on that. Good idea, sir.

A tidier idea than mine for sure

[Haly]

Originally Posted by Miss Smilie

I'm in an upstairs flat and they simply trail the cable up the outside wall You don't even notice it though unless you're looking for it.

Ahh thought it might be something like that.
I didn't really pay attention to how he was doing it, until I realised I had no net connection and he had to go out to a box across the road to boost the strength of the line or something like that. Really we should have split the net connection between the two of us and saved money, but you know how communicative that housemate is

[Matblack]

OMFG

I just spent ten minutes on the phone to Sky trying to justify why I wanted to leave. At one point I actually said to the woman "just cancel my package" she retorted with "its going through but I just wanted to clarify a few points about how we will be cheaper than VM.

To which I retorted "can you do this whilst I continue to DL 200Gb of data a month through your BB system, because I don't think you can "

She actually tried to tell me that Sky were not going to impliment a fair usage policy when they buy their own exchange equipment later this year.

I told her if VM implement a fair usage policy and they can later in the year promise me that they won't I might consider coming back.

I can believe the ammount of effort they put in to customer retention and how good the woman was at it, she had answers for everything apart from the fair usage policy issue, if it wasn't for that and the fact I have an install date from VM I might have considered staying, as it is I can always go back to them. I still have the Sky hardware and can always go back when my contract with VM ends in the meantime it will give me freeview indefinately as she says that won't be cancelled

MB

[Daz]

Did you try saying 'because Murdoch is a ****'?

[Matblack]

Originally Posted by Daz

Did you try saying 'because Murdoch is a ****'?

Pretty close

Said I didn't feel that such a large amount of power should be with one person and how could I get a rounded view of the situation when he owned almost all the media

MB

[Haly]

Did she then scream 'aargh anti capitalist Guardian reading wimpy liberal' at you?

[Garp]

Originally Posted by Daz

Our IP has only changed when I reboot the modem, and the last time I did that it didnt change anyway.

Instead of a dyndns service (which I just dont like) I have a bit of VB that uploads my current WAN IP address to some hosting every now and again. If it does change without me knowing, then I can at least find it easy enough

Hmm.. now thats an idea. Could you pass a copy of the script to me?

I'll probably do some funky magic later with bash scripting on my *nix box to achieve the same function but for now would be handy.

[Daz]

I could do, but it doesn't actually query the web as such - it parses the syslog from my Draytek, so nothing special.

Could set something up on the BD server though I suppose, just to bounce the IP back. Quick html/php page and then wget that back locally.