Im losing the will to live[ongoing]

No guy, got the router thru the other day and today is my activation day so plugged the router in this morning..... I've been switched on as earlier I got 13mb which I'd never have had from the 'normal' service, so I can tell something has changed. Apparently midnight tonight is when it's supposed to officially be up and running so I'm going to have to keep an eye for a few days. The whole reason I am now paying for fibre is because their NORMAL package was so crap.... so they've basically forced me to upgrade (which I'm not particularly thrilled about).

Hobbit, have looked at Virgin packages and they look over priced... on a par with SKY... I would have swapped to them IF they were somewhat cheaper..... how much are you paying/month for what you are subscribed to?

U get an openreach modem as well as the wifi router i assume? when i went from BB to Fiber, i had an engineer come and change the phone sockets, tested up and down speeds etc etc...
 
Whasssat? :confused:

A modem! VDLS2 basically converts the phone line to high speed internet for your wifi router to send wifi shizzle out... Also you should have got a new master socket too (at least i did, things may have changed, but 7mb on Fibre, something is not right!!)

Unless the very latest Sky Routers have this built in, i would be phoning sky to check..


EDIT: DOne some googling, your sky box, is it black or white??? If its black, ignore the above! i think its all built in. I would be checking a few things...

What is your download speed on a wired connection?
Is the modem plugged into the master socket, not an extension.
Is there possible wireless interference? (download this to check and adjust channels to get a clear signal http://www.techspot.com/downloads/5936-inssider.html Stick to 1, 6 or 11)

Lastly, have you tried turning it off and on again???!
 
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Solicitors, or more to the point, the incompetent fwits supposedly dealing with my house sale and purchase.

Paying them thousands of pounds to blame everyone else involved for the apparent lack of activity and (so far) 8 week delay in preparing to exchange contracts.

Money for nothing I tell you.......
 
Solicitors, or more to the point, the incompetent fwits supposedly dealing with my house sale and purchase.

Paying them thousands of pounds to blame everyone else involved for the apparent lack of activity and (so far) 8 week delay in preparing to exchange contracts.

Money for nothing I tell you.......

Yep. We had no end of issues with the solicitors dealing with our move. Money for old rope
 
Speed camera vans parked on a grass verge partially blocking a pathway along a dual carriageway. Wasnt speeding but they are purely making money, not teaching anyone anything other than hatred towards them.

See, I don't understand this mentality. They only "make money" if people are speeding and people shouldn't be speeding. If you speed you take the risk that you are going to get caught and fined so what's the problem? You weren't speeding so why does it even bother you?
 
I've been trying to get some infrastructure support guys to do some fixes identified in a security test - since January...

They are low risk and low priority but I need them done so I can close the bleeding project down. And yesterday on a checkpoint call I discover one of the lads who was scheduled to complete his stuff last week was off ill last week and now he is on two weeks paternity leave)

I'm losing the will...
 
it does take a while to settle (no idea why!), what were the speeds when the guy installed it?

My sky fiber is a fairly consistent 30-35mb these days. was around 15-20 on install.

Is Fibre on throughout Newbury? if so I may get on to Sky as I'm still on their standard broadband, and is it extra cost?
 
Is Fibre on throughout Newbury? if so I may get on to Sky as I'm still on their standard broadband, and is it extra cost?

Its not true fiber as in virgin to your door, its copper from my nearest connection point. I am currently sat in my office which is wifi via a Netgear extender, so not even connected directly to my wifi router and i just tested and got 18mbps down and 8.1 up. The BB part of my bill is 20 quid.
 
Is Fibre on throughout Newbury? if so I may get on to Sky as I'm still on their standard broadband, and is it extra cost?

See what they'll offer you. Both us and daughter got it for no extra for a few months then half price I think.
 
Driving on M25 (or any M road).. and getting road signs 'Congestion after junction'... what does it mean.. does it mean there is congestion on the M25 after the exit or does it mean there is congestion on the slip road after the junction... Either way, traffic is always an interesting sport..
 
Driving on M25 (or any M road).. and getting road signs 'Congestion after junction'... what does it mean.. does it mean there is congestion on the M25 after the exit or does it mean there is congestion on the slip road after the junction... Either way, traffic is always an interesting sport..

I would have thought it was self explanatory

Congestion after the next junction on the road you are travelling on
 
Websites that randomly forget your username and password for no reason other than spite and then flatly refuse to accept the only username and password you've ever used.

Peasants.....
 
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