OT The joys of BT

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I doubt harry can read. His posts appear to be computer generated.

[Capitol]

No, but he's a BMW lover socialist!

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Capitol escribió:

The Eye refers to Rupert Murdoch as the Dirty Digger, hence Mr Plowman's aversion to anything to do with $ky (with which I happen to agree).

You might have fun googling PE's Dave Spart and see if you can spot the difference between him and Plowman.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I can see only one. He has a beard.

[Dave Liquorice]

"£22/month for fibre" do you mean FTTP or the less than useless FTTC crap.

If they can give me FTTP for £22/month where do I sign?

[Dave Liquorice]

If it's that easy to get at take a pair fo snips with you and force them to repair it properly....

[Dave Liquorice]

Telex is up to 80 character lines only. Anthing longer ends up as blob at the 80th position.

[tony sayer]

In article , Tim Streater scribeth thus

212 on good day here:)...

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , tony sayer escribió:

ooh. You're on the G.fast trial?

Lucky git.

[Dave Liquorice]

Precisely crap. You are paying the same as someone closer to the cabinet but getting less than 1/2 the service.

A GPON connection could give you 1 Gbps, both ways, 10+ km from the optical split not a piddly 78 Mbps for a couple of hundred metres..

[Dave Liquorice]

AFAIK G.Fast still petters out to ADSL2 (up to 8 Mbps) at a km or two from the cabinet. The higher speeds are still only achieveable withing a few hundred metres.

[Capitol]

Update. BT India phoned last Friday, to tell me my line was perfect! I pointed out that there were 2 Open Reach reports that stated otherwise as the line is shorted. Today I had another Indian call to confirm that my line was perfect and that Open Reach had repaired the fault. I was able to point out to India, that they had just called me on my landline and the call would not go through. They had then called my mobile and I was able to assure them that not only had the call not gone through, but my broadband speed had halved from normal. Also the broadband noise margin had dropped from 12db to 6db between this morning and this afternoon! They decided that perhaps they needed to talk to Open Reach again!

[The Natural Philosopher]

Which is why I rent my phone and broadband from IDnet. They are in Hemel Hempstead and speak English

And don't let Openreach get away with it.

[tony sayer]

In article , Mike Tomlinson scribeth thus

No its a standard product here now, its called the 200 meg service but on all the speed tests we've done its past that by a bit.

I think they are going faster out at Papworth Everard (where the famous heart hospital is) thats around the 300 to 500 mark IIRC...

[tony sayer]

I think that BT/ Openreach could improve their services no end if they bought their own communications back to the UK mainland. Every Openreach bloke i have ever spoke to moaned about "bloody India" and what goes on or rather doesn't there..

[The Natural Philosopher]

BT is not Openreach. Openreach don't have customer service.

That's handled by BT wholesale and talks only to wholesale customers - like BT retail.

You problem is that BT *retail's* customer services are utter crap and based in ...well you know where.

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , tony sayer escribió:

Isn't G.fast supposed to be up to 300Mbps?

I'm on a solid 40 now, with a solid 80 available if I want it, so by the time G.fast gets here...

[polygonum]

I have done so - and posted links onto the VM support forum.

Might take a few days, but they do lock them up again, at least...

[tony sayer]

In article , Mike Tomlinson scribeth thus

Pass on that one Mike. Don't know.

It may well be the they'll upgrade you for free after a while.

[tony sayer]

I think you'll find that Openreach are closer to BT in practice than might be thought, seems from what I hear their techs have around as many problems as what the public do!..