Fake Fiber Roll Out Fraud Hits Britain Big Time ----------------------------------------------- This is a complex fraud involving big telecom like BT (British Telecum), VM, Openroach and those in know at Offcom and DCMS all pretending to 'roll out fiber' when the largest percentage of connections per payment of government grant amounts to 'roll out of copper'. Big telecom demands money from...

Wahahahanking with copper G.Fast cut back to G.Slow --------------------------------------------------- G.Fast, the ultra-expensive G.Slow copper sold as fake fiber is to be cut back. No one wants it. Copper master bation nation is finally being shut down by customers and small amount of fiber competition

Just to give credit to Plusnet for once (or more probably their BT parent): I changed my Plusnet contract recently and added the Plusnet free services of call protect and also caller display. Based on a couple of weeks's experience, call protect (1572) does seem to get rid of most junk calls. We had none for two weeks then two yesterday (and just afterwards some Jehovah's Witnesses called at...

I have a Huawei (how the f*ck do you pronounce that?) 4G E5776 MiFi unit that I might be lending out to someone in a poor reception area. It has a tiny socket presumably for an aerial. Are there any gotcha's to choosing a suitable aerial? Any recommendations? Tim

I was browsing something to do with Liverpool Lime Street station, when surprisingly an ad' for Hyperoptic appeared in the middle of the page. Normally I would have disregarded it, but given their infant pet troll posts on this group and it said fibre broadband for £19 per month I decided to click on it, which soon gets you to he - https://www.hyperoptic.com/price-plans/?broadbandonly it...

IoD wants copper switch off date - DCMS fiber engineers offer to take them off the Internet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The IoD sharply interated that they want a firm copper switch off date to force phone Internet companies and cable Internet companies to remove their shiite copper off the streets and make way for fiber. The DCMS...

If I want to make a wireless link of about 500m through a typical residential environment, but which can't do line of sight, is there anything I could do? The land is flat, but LOS goes obliquely through about 6 houses so seems like a non-starter. There's nowhere suitable to install a reflector - it might just be possible to get reflections off existing objects, but it'll be two or three deep...

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/8125-latest-bt-group-results-as-ee-set-to-launch-5g-in-east-london

Mars IT ditches UK rollout because of shiite Internet ----------------------------------------------------- Mars IT has said UK Internet is shiite and its moving all operations to Europe. They are not paying £85,000 + VAT for shiite Internet of 10gbits. May be £30/m in line with where International norms are heading.

My parents' internet has stopped working. I seems that some gardeners who were working next door were removing some branches that overhung the overhead mains wires from a wooden pole to the houses (theirs and the neighbour's). This pole also carries overhead phone lines. The work that they were doing involved temporarily turning off the mains to my parents' house and using winches to pull...

Gigabit Fiber- big Demand with £2000 Gaming PCs ----------------------------------------------- There is no way to *fscking* way is it possible to spend £2000 on a gaming PC and without first spending £30 to £50 per month on symmetric gigabit fiber Internet. There is no *FSCKING* Symmetric Gigabit Fiber Internet in London and UK unlike say Paris

On Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:26:53 UTC+1, 7 wrote: No Customers in London/UK with symmetric gigabit Internet for 5G, IoT, AI, MI, VR, AR Digital --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No *fscking* customers in London/UK with symmetric gigabit Internet for 5G, IoT, AI, MI, VR, AR Digital, so what the *fsck* is any of the Industry...

Brilliant analysis and visualisation of broadband coverage in the UK from the FT. Shows how stark difference can be just streets away. https://ig.ft.com/gb-broadband-speed-map/

How to tell if you need fast Internet ------------------------------------- Internet is now the back bone of Industry. Without Internet most companies would stand to loose substantial amounts of income from the outage. If the Internet is replaced with slow Internet, the frustration and loss of productivity become unimaginable and incalculable. So lets now assume your Internet speed is restored.

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/8110-uk-could-be-number-1-in-broadband-league-tables-rather-than-35th Quite a long article showing the methodology was badly flawed and that people are quite happy with 40/10 ADSL and won't pay a premium to go faster. So Hyperoptic, already a money pit, looks set never to find the customers it needs to break even in its cherry picked areas... 7 had better...

I have a (mostly Linux) home network with a Draytek 2860n connecting to the internet using VDSL. It all works well and much as expected. Mostly visitors using MS Windows and Android seem to connect to my WiFi OK too. However it would seem that Windows 10 (and possibly some iPhones) are failing to connect and I really can't see why. I have a Windows 10 partition on my (normally Linux) laptop...

Offcum has its Blue Peter moment with shiiite flying everywhere --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.bmmagazine.co.uk/news/worldwide-broadband-speed-league-unveiled-uk-slips-four-places-to-35th%E2%80%8B/ The Blue Peter moment occurred on BBC Live TV when an elephant realizing it was the only elephant in the room started to spray shiite in all direction on...

Hi, The main reason I have stayed with BT is so that I would be able to change my ISP on my FTTC connection without any hiccups. Is this necessary these days? I have had enough of BT and would like to move both my landlines from them. Other than my broadband issue above, can any of you recommend a good landline operator with customer service in the UK?

London touts Investors to go elsewhere to invest in Digital ----------------------------------------------------------- There is no symmetric gigabit Internet in London so investing in London is not an option to Internet entrepreneurs. They all go to France - its simple, just arrive, use Internet to find some good companies and invest. Its all free Internet in most places across the globe now.

City of London fibered up in a few weeks with micro Kerb Trenching ------------------------------------------------------------------ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wisrs03EkDM The machine cuts micro trenches parallel to the kerb for installing fiber optic cables. No need to cone off the area while the work is being done.