fucking finally

[seremtan]

my bb works. they started charging me on 9/9, sent me the modem 2 weeks later, and it was faulty. fortunately the nice man from BT came round, found the problem, fixed it, and lent me his own alcatel modem until my own ISP send me a replacement. ALL THE THINGS MY FUCKING SHITTY ISP SHOULD HAVE DONE IN THE FIRST PLACE SINCE IT WAS THEIR FAULT NOT BT'S

[4days]

a uk adsl problem that wasn't bt's fault, and bt staff helped to fix? Who's your isp, they must be shite.

[seremtan]

onetel. the bt guy was great. to top it off they started me on 512k and will take 2 weeks to upgrade me to the 2mbit i'm supposed to be getting. and i need a refund for the first 3 weeks when i had no service

so yeah, i think the word shite is pretty appropriate

[4days]

onetel are owned by the same company as british gas - switch while you still can. that or look forward to poor and intermittent service and a seemingly random billing cycle.

i might set myself up as an isp. the customer simply direct debits me £30 per month - in return, i add them to a special address book in my mobi.

then whenever anyone on that list calls i can put them through to an endless loop of some grieg being played badly, in a wind tunnel.

[seremtan]

their billing cycle seems pretty non-random so far. to be fair, once the service is actually running it's fine, and i'm regularly kept up to speed with the weather in india thanks to their helpdesk

[glossy]

onetel are owned by the same company as british gas - switch while you still can. that or look forward to poor and intermittent service and a seemingly random billing cycle.

i might set myself up as an isp. the customer simply direct debits me £30 per month - in return, i add them to a special address book in my mobi.

then whenever anyone on that list calls i can put them through to an endless loop of some grieg being played badly, in a wind tunnel.

sounds like a top plan :icon14: (and for a moment there, i actually thought you were serious)

[DRuM]

I gained a lot of respect for british telecom when I had an SNR ( signal to noise ratio ) problem on my 2mb connection and it kept disconnecting. Engineer came round to my house armed with laptop and tools, replaced my indoor telephone box and the noise on the line was fixed. Didn't charge me a penny for the service.

[seremtan]

thankfully my engineer who was around earlier tested SNR and said i was good to go. told me an hilarious story about some peeps near witney whose bb cut out whenever the street lights came on. interference or something. xmas trees are a culprit too apparently

[Foo]

I gained a lot of respect for british telecom when I had an SNR ( signal to noise ratio ) problem on my 2mb connection and it kept disconnecting. Engineer came round to my house armed with laptop and tools, replaced my indoor telephone box and the noise on the line was fixed. Didn't charge me a penny for the service.

They seem to have really improved in the past 5 years or so. I think it's because of the sever ass kicking they received over shitty broadband adoption.

We're still miles behind in technical terms sadly. To fix that would require government investment.

[Nightshade]

Why is it that UK BB services are so far behind the US (or Nigeria, for that matter) when your cell service has been light years ahead for so long?

[seremtan]

it's because all the landline infrastructure used to be a public thing run by the post office, then the conservatives privatised it as a monopoly, figuring that all the benefits of privatisation would accrue even without competition

CONSERVATIVES ARE DUMB

[seremtan]

oh, and by the way (to UK people), i was chatting with the BT engineer and he said BT was working on upgrading the entire country to allow 32Mbit as standard, with a fairly reasonable timeframe (i can't remember exactly but it wasn't that long)

[Nightshade]

The thing that irks me about BB service in the States is the lack of fiber to the home. FFS, there are literally MUD HUTS in China that have fiber connections. WTF?

[DRuM]

oh, and by the way (to UK people), i was chatting with the BT engineer and he said BT was working on upgrading the entire country to allow 32Mbit as standard, with a fairly reasonable timeframe (i can't remember exactly but it wasn't that long)

Really? That's good news then and I hope it's soon. I was chatting with a musician I worked with tonight who's also an IT guy. He's with telewest cable and just got a free upgrade from 2mb to 10mb. I'm very tempted to change and it works out at about £35 a month instead of £25 a month for the 2mb I have now.

[seremtan]

hm yeah except does your line support 10mbit and also how many things actually d/l at that speed? when i was working for the university, i got 4mbit d/l on 90% of things at work (it's plugged straight into janet and i've clocked it at 48mbit once or twice). anything more than 4mbit probably isn't worth it right now tbh

[Foo]

The thing that irks me about BB service in the States is the lack of fiber to the home. FFS, there are literally MUD HUTS in China that have fiber connections. WTF?

You're thinking of South Korea. Infrastructure in China is good but it's not that good. By contrast, South Korea's government has channeled 24 billion into their backbone network, and continue to invest.

[Nightshade]

No, I'm fucking well not. I'm thinking of CHINA, due in large part to the rather extensive IEEE report on technological expansion all across China I just read last month. Would you like to try and tell me what else I'm thinking?

[DRuM]

hm yeah except does your line support 10mbit and also how many things actually d/l at that speed? when i was working for the university, i got 4mbit d/l on 90% of things at work (it's plugged straight into janet and i've clocked it at 48mbit once or twice). anything more than 4mbit probably isn't worth it right now tbh

Well with dsl I wouldn't be able to go much higher than 4mbit without affecting my SNR again but with cable I think it's different.
I just put my postcode into the telewest website and it says " The postcode you have entered is outside the Telewest Broadband cabled area. Unfortunately, this means it is not possible to offer you any of our services at present." So I can't get cable anyway.
This guy with 10mbit told me that his upload speed is only around 380kbps. For some technical reason, upload speeds are very low.

[shaft]

:icon10: GD

fags.