[08:22] <froud> African Greetings
[08:38] <maskie> morning frud
[08:39] <froud> morn, cold, wet, raining, thunder and lightning
[08:39] <maskie> frud = ftoud
[08:39] <maskie> gee cannot spel this morning
[08:39] <froud> you got 5 thumbs this morning
[08:39] <maskie> must be the wet cold rainy weather
[08:39] <froud> yeah, so what's new, hows the kids
[08:40] <maskie> good ... nothing new otherwise 
[08:40] <froud> life goes on hey
[08:41] <froud> see tescum are finally taking a beating in the press
[08:41] <froud> telscum
[08:41] <froud> maybe the price of DSL will now come down
[08:42] <maskie> yes ... i saw ... but i am still very sceptical .... a lot has been said and written .. wonders if anything will really happen
[08:42] <froud> finaly, although I have yet to see them reduce my bill since the dropped the price a few months back
[08:43] <froud> when they drop the price are they supposed to drop it also for existing customers
[08:43] <maskie> i would have thought so ... you have a contract with them 
[08:44] <froud> nah to busy, but it is on my list, dreading it
[08:44] <froud> contract yes,
[08:44] <froud> you cant get service witout that
[08:45] <froud> perhaps the contract states that I am locked into a price
[08:45] <froud> I think it was six months
[08:45] <maskie> so you have this 24 month thing where you got your modem for free
[08:45] <froud> no I bought the modem
[08:45] <froud> paid it cash
[08:46] <froud> but I have has DSL for more than six months
[08:46] <maskie> the you should not have a contract and they should reduce your price but then that is telscum
[08:46] <froud> As a business user, still pay 680 a month + 250 for +3GB
[08:47] <maskie> hmmm ... should a business use not pay 800
[08:48] <maskie> and as far as i know that did not reduce ... only the residential 680 became 599
[08:48] <froud> Hmmm, cant remember
[08:48] <froud> yes you are right
[08:48] <froud> has business price changed?
[08:49] <maskie> not as far as i know ... i still have no idea why the business one is a diff one as the residential one ..
[08:49] <froud> yeah I had that argument with them
[08:49] <maskie> the equip and line is exactly the same
[08:49] <froud> they said it was the service level
[08:49] <froud> business gets priority
[08:49] <maskie> what service level :)
[08:50] <froud> yep, I wonder that too
[08:50] <froud> in general I hardly call them
[08:50] <froud> the service has been reliable
[08:50] <froud> from a network perspective that is
[08:51] <froud> maskie I need a hosting service that is cheap and does not care about bandwidth
[08:52] <froud> over the last two months my site generated 8GB traffic
[08:52] <maskie> only option is overseas ...
[08:52] <maskie> who is hosting at the moment
[08:52] <froud> http://www.inwords.co.za/stats/index.html
[08:52] <froud> most of the hits because of K/Ubuntu docs
[08:53] <froud> a small company in Krugers Dorp
[08:53] <froud> the admin there is now jacked and pro linux, he installs Gentoo
[08:54] <maskie> 8GB is probably costing you a bundle ...
[08:54] <froud> :-) yep
[08:54] <froud> It's a lot to pay for free contributions
[08:55] <maskie> i am in the process of moving some of my domains to offshore hosting with unlimited traffic
[08:56] <froud> where to?
[08:57] <maskie> still looking at some ... best sofar is some UK company .. it is on one of my other machine .. will get it and let you know
[08:57] <froud> cool