https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/yahoo-bt-down-email-working-3287154 When oh when are BT going to dump these idiots - it was promised nearly ten years ago. Today any mail received between ~07:15 and 14:00 has just vanished into hyperspace, with little hope of recovering it. It doesn't show in Outlook, other devices nor even web mail :-( PS it hit lots of other ISP's...

In uk.tech.digital-tv in subject "This ere large outage in London" on 20/12/2019 17:16, Brian Gaff (Sofa 2) wrote: It seems not only Virgin were affected, many other broadband suppliers, but not Sky, it seems have been off for nearly two days since the jcb cut the cable in New Malden. So is New Malden somehow some large data hub for many companies or are they all piggy backing on the...

Just upgraded HH5a to openwrt 19.07 it includes newer LTS kernel should supported until 2024, also newer Luci runs scripts client-side than on router, supposed to speed up GUI, but not very noticeable. After the upgrade, all working for VDSL/ethernet/wifi I reinstalled my "usual" modules required for 4G support, initially I forgot to reboot after installing them, and the GUI didn't...

For the past three weeks I have suffered continual episodes of "no internet" for several minutes at a time, but with access to my news server, so it's not the line that at fault. Are other people suffering from this? I lived with it over Christmas as I gave them the benefit of the doubt having people on holiday etc. But it's still happening.

BT Phone Residential Phone Tariff: https://www.bt.com/assets/pdf/BT_PhoneTariff_Residential.pdf "BT Home Hub We'll supply a BT Home Hub to all customers taking BT Broadband, Superfast Fibre or Fibre 100/ 250 where the package includes it, or a new Hub is required for the service to work. This may be a new or reconditioned hub. BT customers who joined before 13.12.19, who request a replacement...

Following on from my posting in uk.telecom about our DECT phone problems (not detecting some calls and not always clearing down) it occurred to me that the only (fairly) recent change to our line was a switch from ADSL to FTTC. Are there any known problems likely to occur when using an FTTC line with DECT? Are filters more critical for example? Any other possibilities?

FWIW, I have recently sent the following open letter to all UK mobile suppliers except Three (because they already have a suitable plan available). If this or similar is an issue for others here, as it might well be, feel free to adapt the text of the following as a basis for your own complaint - remember to copy Ofcom and your local national and regional representatives: Copy: Ofcom ...

Three million homes have access to full-fibre broadband By Jane Wakefield Technology reporter 20 December 2019 Three million homes in the UK can now access full-fibre broadband, offering speeds of up to one gigabit per second. That's a sharp rise from this time last year when just 1.6 million households could get those speeds.

I had a stable ADSL connection for long time at home. 1 year ago they enabled FTTC in the cabinet and I upgraded to FTTC, which at the beginning was working very well. I was getting 10/40Mbps as promised and the connection was stable. That stable FTTC connection lasted for 6 months. From June till now the connection has been very unstable. I can stay for hours without internet. I got the...

Ordered FTTC on 14/12, Order passed to OR on 16/12. ISP said about 3 - 4 days, OR says 7/1. Well, so long as FTTP is being installed, who am I to complain - I've got 3mbps :-( , if it holds up at SNR of 6 and 3.5km to the exchange (and 25kV sparks 100m away). -- Peter. The gods will stay away whilst religions hold sway

Switching broadband provider 'could save £120' Haggling could save households £120 a year on broadband, but 45% of customers have not asked their current provider for a better deal, according to Which? The consumer group found that 78% of people who negotiated were offered an incentive, discount or a better deal." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50792986

Obvious in one sense, but do returning customers count as “new�? Toying with the idea of switching between Virgin and Plusnet fibre every 18 months to take advantage of their “new customer� rates. Is this possible? Tim -- Please don't feed the trolls

What has happened? Been trying to get in touch with them all this week. Either 10 - 30 min Q on calls or kept waiting for ages on Live Chat. Actually went from Pos 2 to Pos 3. Don't know what I did to deserve that. And all I wanted to do was renew my contract. Ah well, time for a change. -- bert

Back to the bad old days of you can only rent a phone / modem / TAM from the GPO and pay £££ over the odds. Lots bonkers about this: - 1. Probably no domestic customers need fibre, just A/VDSL - 50Mbps is way enough to stream 4k video. Business customers may do (dozens of PC's on site), but this is a small sector of the market. 2. Leaves Virgin and the likes of Hyperoptic high and dry -...

If, which I doubt, any of you have followed the shenanigens of our broadband here in Shinness, and our various attempts to improve it, you may be aware that we now have a shiny new green FTTC cabinet at the junction of the A838 and Tirryside at 256544,910287: ,15z As a result, two local households within a few hundred yards have...

Corbyn "Only 8-10% of premises in the UK are connected to full-fibre broadband. It's 97% in Japan." Is it true that 97% of all areas of Japan have high speed fibre broadband? Their urban areas seem very congested with many services on poles and of course they have rural areas. Just always very sceptical of figures like that which can be thrown around by politicians.

Can anybody recommend a PC support organisation in the Holbeach area that would be prepared to take on a farming business? The users have an assortment of different PCs, some farming-specific applications, and several very slow ADSL connections to their various very rural farm offices. None of the users know anything about computers so they need very sympathetic hand-holding, and pro-active...

I have finally swapped over from my original SH to a SH£, to go from 160 Mb/sec to 200 Mb/sec. VM don't want the original SH back. I can see that I could use it as a WiFi router (as I do with a TP-Link cable router), by turning off DHCP and just plugging it into an Ethernet port. However it would be nice to make more use of it if possible.

A non-technical friend has been advised by an Openreach technician that the reason for her poor phone line quality (which affects the speed and reliability of her internet connection) is a fault 70 metres from the house. The words of the technician we "The line measures 45 when it should be 5" Can anybody explain what these numbers mean, please?

Jeff Gaines wrote: I have a: Billion BiPAC 7800DXL Triple WAN Dual Band Wireless N Gigabit ADSL2+/Fibre 3G/4G LTE Broadband Router with USB Port Which Amazon says I purchased on 10/10/2013. The Wi Fi has started to become erratic over the last couple of weeks and