I changed to O2 after a horrendous 3-4 years with Wandadoo/Orange. My area is very slow, but at least with O2 the speed is higher than what I previously experienced. We're only paying £8/mo for the service, which is fine value IMO. The only complaints I have is that the website is godawful and spends half its time breaking; and the router you get as standard might as well be made of butter because it seems to enjoy melting its insides, switching off, recovering and continuing as if nothing had happened.

Good customer service, mostly, some of the best I've encountered from any company. They're also my mobile (phone) provider because you get a hefty broadband discount if you also have them on your mobile.

EDIT: So far as shaping goes, it seems that I get my highest speed after midnight, up to early-ish morning. 1.7mbps at that time. For most of the day it's at 1.3 with a couple of hours at 1.4.

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I agree that the front page should be changed, but don't care when the Scirocco is released. I think I saw a post last week saying there would be an update on the front page at some point in the next month or so. Don't quote me on that.

Last 2 posts = horrendous.

Donations can contribute to loads of things. An expensive thing is the option of a high quality MultiBC broadcast, and most people quite like having a broadcast of the race they were in. I'm not bothered if I drive in a race with a 'cast but it's quite a nice thing to have if it's available.

But the most expensive thing is the commentary. Those commentators are greedy ****s.

I'm sure Sir Alan Sugar had to start off in this way. The business world is rough and tough, you gotta take advantage of everything! Even if you're lying.

I'm confused... £10 per slot? £450? (Also, bronze is less valuable than silver in real terms).

Thank funk for that. I was getting bored of not reading all the dramatic posts.

Quote from adamlfs :

You get them at random

Simple as that.

I keep telling 'em, I will hook them up with KFC so their overhead food costs (currently astronomical) decrease to 0. Then there'll be no need for entry fees!

It's freaking fun. Honestly, that's all I currently and ever will care about. If MW2 is more of the same, then bring on the fun.

Jeez trebor, watch the darn race instead of posting drivel every couple of minutes!

Anyway, that was a classic touring car race with a simply stunning drive from Plato from the back. Whether you like him or not, you can't deny his skill. He managed to make every pass without the use of contact.

Yes, Wilko was confused about why there was a panda combined with the WWF name. I was unimpressed.

Quote from danthebangerboy :

I popped into this thread last night at about 23:15 and the top link to the live stream worked so i sat down and waited for the race, which started at midnight and i watched it all, so i actually must have stayed up until 2am so i didnt miss any of it, but i was in fact watching the stream replaying from some hours before.

I wondered why nobody was talking back to me in the chat. FAIL!

What race were you watching? Ours finished over an hour before you came along.

Looks like about 60% was done on the oval but (not 100% like a lot of people like to believe), nevertheless, it's still quite a sight to behold!

It certainly was a completely mad race. Never before have I been so confused in a race. Actually, that's not true. I'm always confused when commentating.

Quote from iMCk. :

BTCC is awesome but why only 14 or so cars?

There's been at least 22 for most of the season, but a few are sitting out this round so there's only 18. Still a good number compared to recent years.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

However there's a client/server variable (tf_overtime_nag) that allows you to revert to the "old" way as it was hilariously awesome.

It got old very quickly. But it did provide some real lols for a few minutes.

Indeed. That's what I was inferring but I pretty much screwed it up.

Quote from trebor901 :

Well with 5+ people sitting out Knockhill the end of this season could be very low on numbers.

I think some teams sit Knockhill out for budget reasons. Happens every year. All the haggis bribes and whatnot. They usually return after Knockhill to compete in the rest of the races.

Quote from ldriver :

By the way it would cool if Scawen made patches with the Valve pace

Difference is, the patches for TF2 always need correcting, balancing and bug-fixing of bugs they created in the latest patch. Like yesterday's patch, for example: "OVERTIME OVERTIME OVERTIME OVERTIME OVERTIME OVERTIME".

I like the new KOTH maps, they seem to be like Team Deathmatch but force the players to focus their attention on the central area. I'm not sure if it will sustain its popularity, but its certainly fun for now!

Holy moly, that's a huge mag! I've read a few of the articles and interviews and I can say that I'd pay money for this stuff were it in paper-form.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Yes, but it's retarded. Would you beat a dead horse in hope that you can kill it more?

I thought not.

I'd slice it up so I could eat its odd-tasting meat. But that analogy doesn't apply here so...

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

To show that this discussion is a repeat: Here's a thread from RSC, dated 2004. http://forum.racesimcentral.co ... p;highlight=bump+drafting

There have been threads about tyres before, there have been threads about damage before, there have been threads about contact before. Just because it was discussed 5 years ago doesn't mean it can't be discussed again

Quote from CSF :

Does he like dinner?

Very important question. Phrase your answer carefully.