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ntl suffocated by signup mayhem on day 1

Will Knight ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 07 Mar 2000 18:21 GMT

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Despite promises to the contrary, ntl's signup service was brought down Tuesday evening by a stampede of people desperate to get access to its free Internet service.

The ntl Web site itself is accessible, as is part of the registration process. However, when a would-be ntl user tries to reach the signup page, a browser is met with the following disheartening message:

HTTP Error 403

403.9 Access Forbidden: Too many users are connected

AltaVista suffered a similar fate shortly after launching its own low-cost unmetered access service on Monday.

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