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"0800 freeola Access"

I was just wondering if you could give me the following info on the 0800 access to it

1) When is it coming out?

2) How much will it cost?

3)Will it offer all the same features as standard freeola such as free web space etc


Thanks for your time

Phil boasted:
> Reply from 194.168.4.100: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=250

Blah blah blah, we all know your dad pays for your cable!

As for the other question:

Who would want a high ping? Well, no one. There is no trade off. Crap ISPs give high pings.

You can use

ping host -t

in the run box, which will ping it indefinately, rather than stop after 4.

Reply from 194.168.4.100: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=250
Reply from 194.168.4.100: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=250

*grin*

(so what if it's the NTL DNS server, it looks good ;)

Ah, I see - low ping = quick response. Makes sense. I can't see why anyone would want high ping, then. Is there a trade off with something else? For me, currently on the Anytime lark with you-know-who, I find it just about acceptable, if a bit unreliable from time to time. But then I'm not worried about dodging enemy fire. So I'd have to say that if Freeola were to offer a more reliable service on the same sort of terms, I'd probably be interested, but it would still take something extra to shake me out of my usual unwillingness to change for change's sake.

Yeah: run -> command

Some people find it scary though.

Go to Command Prompt or MS DOS Prompt or whatver its called rather than run, it works so much better..

The ping is how long it takes for a server to reply to you. Try clicking start -> run, then type "ping google.com" You will see a list of four statistics and then it will quite lamely disappear. Pings are measured in milliseconds, and a good ping for a 56K is about 150ms to 200ms. For cable, it can be as low as 20ms. The lower your ping the better.

Pings are usually, but not always, related to the speed to your connection speed. I say not always, because other factors such as quality of connection, hardware and your route and physical distance from the server.

Low pings are very useful in gaming. If you have a ping of 500ms, you are running 500ms behind the game. If you're up against a cable user of 20ms, then he has a 480ms advantage over you to dodge and shoot and it's a BIG advantage.

Hope I cleared it all up for you!

Erm, for the benefit of us idiots out here, will someone explain what you lot mean by this chat about pings?

I used the Freeserve Evening/Weekend service before they doubled the Price, so I'd like to see an Evening/Weekend thing from Freeola, for the same price I was paying, £4.99 a Month, as I was happy with that, and don't really need the AnyTime thing.

Though I doubt this is a good idea on your side, but I wouldn't mind a cheap Anytime thing, where we could dial up at anytime, but have say a limit to how long we can use it for a Day/Week/Month.

BT is naff, I want low pings, high download rates and general always on-ness.

s/low ping/high ping