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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Tian Guan on September 30, 2003, 06:49:56 pm

Title: NTL = Retards
Post by: Tian Guan on September 30, 2003, 06:49:56 pm: Okay, so I sit down at my desk, power up my laptop, plug in the modem cable and open up Internet Explorer and what do I see before me?

A page saying that my connection has been killed/blocked/nuked by NTL until I download a Blaster-Patch for WindowsXP and both a Blaster and Welchia scrubber.

Now, the page was at ntli.net, so I was immediately suspicious. I clicked my proxy on to bypass that page (I would've just gone on IRC or used e-mail to check with other people that it was real, but my IRC and E-mail ports have also been blocked), and went to NTLworld.com to check if it was real and not some hoax. Sure enough, there it was on the NTL homepage about a revised security thing and that people were being forced to download the patch and scrubbers. So I'm assuming it's all above board.

Now, I'm not a violent or easily annoyed man, but this is just ****ing retarded and I hope those bastards at NTL burn in hell. Not only have I already installed the patch via WindowsUpdate and ran the scrubber, I happened to have done so several weeks ago when the worm was actually in full effect. And I've also blocked the affected ports with my Magical Firewall of Hax0r Doom™.

And to make things worse, the morons didn't even include a nice little button on their forced warning page saying "I'm not a dumbass and already fixed my computer weeks ago", oh no, they make EVERYONE do it.

So, to summarise, I'm looking to buy some rockets, a few grenades and 10 loyal mercenaries. Or at least I will be once the crappy-ass scrubber is finished it's 20 hour task of searching my hard-drive.

They've totally killed hundreds of thousands of peoples connections to fix a worm that was first counter-acted months ago. Kudos for the quick response.

This is the most retarded thing I have ever seen happen on the net, even surpassing RichardSimmons.com.

*wanders off to switch to a BT ASDL connection*
Title: NTL = Retards
Post by: Taristin on September 30, 2003, 06:55:55 pm: Wow... 4 posts and a rant...
Title: NTL = Retards
Post by: Tian Guan on September 30, 2003, 07:00:09 pm: Yes, I'm a quick learner, despite what the British Board of Education may tell you.
Title: NTL = Retards
Post by: phreak on September 30, 2003, 07:13:40 pm: NTL = National Transcommunication Ltd. ??

i'm not british but i looked it up. sounds pretty stupid though :blah:
Title: NTL = Retards
Post by: Hippo on September 30, 2003, 07:28:55 pm: you wanted some mercenaries? ;7
Title: NTL = Retards
Post by: Nico on October 01, 2003, 02:09:07 am: mwehehehehe :D that's rather funny :D
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Post by: Shrike on October 01, 2003, 02:24:52 am: No, really. Tell us how you really feel.
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Post by: Hunter on October 01, 2003, 02:59:54 am: NTL suck, get BT or anything not NTL. :P
Title: NTL = Retards
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 01, 2003, 04:35:12 am: That's all well and good, but NTL like their monopolies. Theirs is the only broadband serivce in this 'city'. To be honest, it doesn't suck too many eggsies although last year they put a daily 1gig cap on everyone's downloads without announcing the fact publicly... And if you don't pay your bill within about three minutes of receiving it they bump your modem down to 128k, then 56k, and so forth...
Title: NTL = Retards
Post by: aldo_14 on October 01, 2003, 09:23:38 am: I hate NTL. We used to get free 24 hours internet access when we had phones via them, and they changed it so we had to get bloody cable TV to be elgiable. SO I'm stuck on a crappy Freeserve after 6pm connection. Bleh.
Title: NTL = Retards
Post by: 01010 on October 01, 2003, 11:53:33 am: Been on Blueyonders broaband service for three years now, couldn't fault it in the slightest, currently eligible for the 2mbps connection but that's £60 a month which is a little out of our collective (everyone on the LAN pays an equal share) price range.
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Post by: diamondgeezer on October 01, 2003, 01:06:45 pm: Oo... interesting. I shall investigate. NTL charge 50 for their 1mbps, what are Blueyonder charging?
Title: NTL = Retards
Post by: 01010 on October 01, 2003, 01:12:03 pm: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Oo... interesting. I shall investigate. NTL charge 50 for their 1mbps, what are Blueyonder charging?

£36 of your finest pounds but you have to be in a telewest catchment area.
Title: NTL = Retards
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 01, 2003, 01:32:26 pm: Aaargh, we're not elegible. Hey, you know Jolt are doing broadband now? I shall go check them while I'm in the mood...
Title: NTL = Retards
Post by: Unknown Target on October 01, 2003, 01:56:17 pm: Where I live, I get about 5-6mpbs for $50 a month.

(Not in Britain :D)
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Post by: karajorma on October 02, 2003, 01:38:25 pm: NTL charge £36 for 1M broadband where I live.
Title: NTL = Retards
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 02, 2003, 03:13:13 pm: WTF? Where do you live then?
Title: NTL = Retards
Post by: karajorma on October 02, 2003, 03:41:17 pm: Kent. I suspect it is part of a package option since I also get Cable TV with them.

It might be worth calling them up. I called up to enquire about the cost of the 1M broadband and found that I could get an upgrade from 512k and extra channels for £3 LESS than what I had been paying :D
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Post by: diamondgeezer on October 02, 2003, 03:46:29 pm: What in the hell? They advertise 1M for 50 squids everywhere I look. I must investigate... though to be honest I don't want to poke them cos they never charged us for our first six months of broadband and we're hoping to God they never find out...