[ILUG] the NTL challenge

[Niall Walsh]

Having gone round and round in circles with NTL for so long, they 
finally started to get a bit more open, so that you could at least ask 
them if you were upgraded or not.   They also told me that parts of 
tallaght, walkinstown and firhouse were upgraded, so I pinged as many 
addresses as I could think at them only to get one hit...."upgraded but 
not launched" and a "yes please give me your wild guess of when it will 
launch" of one month.

This evening I discovered the lovely page 
http://www.ntl.com/ireland/frames/ah_index.htm which allows you to put 
in addresses and see what you can get.  So I hit it with some more 
addresses and found that old bawn, tallaght and jobs town all came back 
as two-way networks......so armed with a Dublin Street Guide 2nd Ed I 
tried to find a road....and failed except for old bawn road!    The only 
working hypothesis I have is that the only places it has launched are 
all newer than my map and hence I can't come up with the road names. 
The question to everyone is can you find somewhere the much advertised 
service id actually available, and then for bonus points find the terms 
and conditions!

Niall Walsh

Never underestimate the dark side of the source