Talk Talk down.

Technical Ben · May 06, 2011, 12:03:08

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/06/talktalk_down/

Not a good sign.

Rik · May 06, 2011, 12:30:59

That's a lot of disruption.

pctech · May 06, 2011, 13:03:16

I gather that Opal had quite a good record before talk talk got hold of them.

Rik · May 06, 2011, 13:04:15

There are too many evil empires in the telco world.

pctech · May 06, 2011, 13:18:20

Yep good telcos seem to be a rare species.

Glenn · May 06, 2011, 13:32:04

Our telecomms manager pulls his hair out everytime he rings Opal.

pctech · May 06, 2011, 13:42:12

Gary · May 06, 2011, 13:59:42

With Cnet saying yet more hackers are going after Sony this weekend as well its all fun and games online

Life was so much simpler at some point I'm sure, just not sure when that was.

pctech · May 06, 2011, 14:03:08

Back in the days of 56K dial-up?

Gary · May 06, 2011, 14:04:37

Quote from: pctech on May 06, 2011, 14:03:08
Back in the days of 56K dial-up?

Was that good? Maybe the difference engine, Mitch.

pctech · May 06, 2011, 14:10:17

Few botnets then.

Gary · May 06, 2011, 14:23:14

Quote from: pctech on May 06, 2011, 14:10:17
Few botnets then.

Just nets would be ok, fishing preferably, as for bots, leave that to Issac Asimov

pctech · May 06, 2011, 14:26:46

pctech · May 06, 2011, 15:32:33

Sites look to be back now.

Technical Ben · May 06, 2011, 19:43:09

Quote from: pctech on May 06, 2011, 14:10:17
Few botnets then.

But lots of rouge diallers.

Bill · May 06, 2011, 19:55:34

Quote from: Technical Ben on May 06, 2011, 19:43:09
But lots of rouge diallers.

My modem was a sort of brown colour, not red

pctech · May 07, 2011, 18:06:04

first was a silver one that was taken out by a lightning strike and second (which I still have) was beige.

Bill · May 07, 2011, 21:36:46

I'd forgotten the silver ones... a couple of Hayes, one was 2400 baud, the other 9600 baud.

The brown one could equally have been called beige- a USR Courier, 19.2 kbaud when I bought it but updated to 56 kbaud iirc.

I've still got all three upstairs, goodness knows why I keep them as I haven't got a decent computer with a serial port!

Technical Ben · May 07, 2011, 21:43:28

Sorry meant rogue dialers.