Re: BT Internet

["paul gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Mark - Nice bit of disinformation from BT then! - they quite clearly
state on their website that you MUST download & use their dialler!! -
they
even spawn a new browser window just to ram the point home!

However, I think I'll wait a while now, and see what they do in response to
Alta-Vista's announcement....

Paul G.



>From: "Mark McCall" <Mark@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: [ukha_d] Re: BT Internet
>Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 18:28:10 -0000
>
>I am NOT using their dialer.  I never downloaded it.
>
>Just have 2 different dial-up networking accounts setup - one for the
0800
>number and one for the standard number.
>
>M.
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: paul gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
>   Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 6:04 PM
>   To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>   Subject: [ukha_d] Re: BT Internet
>
>
>Mark,
>
>I've just been looking at the details of this on their website, and I
have
>a
>question about the dialler software...
>
>The blurb states that you have to download and use their custom dialler
>software, and if so, this makes it totally useless to me - I use a
proxy
>server, and must use the proxy server's autodial dialler. (which in
turn
>uses a standard Dial-up Networking profile). However, reading between
the
>lines seems to suggest that their custom dialler software is nothing
more
>that an automated script for setting up a bog-standard DUN profile
(just to
>make it idiot-proof?). Would this be a correct assumption? - can you
>dispense with their so-called custom dialler software and just use a
>totally
>standard DUN profile, with the appropriate 0800 number? - (So I could
then
>use it with my Proxy server..)
>
>Cheers.
>
>Paul G.
>
>
>
> >From today (1st March) BT Internet now giving FREE access (via
0800
>number)
> >all weekend AND **every week-night*** (6:00pm to midnight) for
9.99 per
> >month.
> >
> >Just signed up :-)
> >
> >M.
> >
> >PS - If you pay for a year up-front you get 12 months for price of
11 and
> >TWO GIG of webspace
>
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