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Re: Surftime



As far as i know its to allow BT to be able to drop lines if usage is high
to allow others to get in. In practice i have never been dropped even if i
were my router would have be back on in a sec. I have online times in
excess
of 300 hours.

Steve.

(Plus Net abuser)

----- Original Message -----
From: <REB.Barnett@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 2:03 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Surftime


> I know that Freeserve recently kicked people off for 'abusing' their
24x7
> service. Do people have experience with Surftime in terms of what is
> considered acceptable use?
>
> I've just been looking at http://www.plus.net offering, which looks
quite
> nice. However their T&Cs talk about reserving the right to suspend
service
> after 2 hours use or 20mins inactivity. Is this as draconian as it
sounds,
> and is it specific to the ISP or Surftime in general?
>
> Given they're offering a fixed IP address, we were hoping to be able
to
keep
> the line up between 8am and 6pm...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ray Barnett
>
>
>
>







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