After a bit of googling I discovered the reason for this is that my ISP, Virgin Media, have deliberately disabled SNMP access. Reports vary on the reasons for this, some claim “performance” others “security”, but both are utterly bogus reasons. All this does is deny customers basic information about their connection like bandwidth usage, and I can only conclude that Virgin Media want to make it more difficult for people to dispute their figures.

This isn’t enough to make me ditch VM, but it has pissed me off, and the next time I move house VM are going to be waaay down the list of providers I’ll look at.

PS. My router doesn’t support SNMP either so I can’t use that.

Pros:

• Much better feed support (Atom, yay!)
• Supports OpenID.
• Supports the del.icio.us API in addition to it’s own for easy porting of apps/plugins.
• Cached copy of the bookmarked site in case it goes down.

Cons:

• Seems to be slower than del.icio.us at times.
• More cluttered interface.
• Everyone else is using del.icio.us.

The interface clutter I can live with since I rarely go to the bookmark site itself, only access the data through various tools. The speed is a worry, but then again there were similar slowdowns in the early days of delicious so hopefully magnolia will get better.

As far as everyone else using delicious…hey I’m an early adopter for once .