If you live in an area with poor DSL speeds, and no access to Virgin cable, and you have a decent 4G signal from Three it might now be viable to use them for your domestic broadband. It seems Ofcom have stopped them from preventing you from putting phone tariff sims in mifi type devices...

"One in seven homes could be paying more than they need to for broadband and could get faster services for the same or less money, Ofcom has said. New research suggests that half of UK homes have not taken up faster services even though they are available. Ofcom has launched a campaign dubbed Boost Your Broadband to let people know about what options are available. It follows years of...

Note the slovenly misdescription in the title and throughout the article, for 'WiFi' read 'landline'. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46346172 "Speed tests in 80 countries revealed wi-fi was left lagging in 33 nations, according to wireless coverage mapping company OpenSignal. Mobile data should also get a further speed boost when 5G networks arrived, it said.

"A village street in Bamfurlong, Gloucestershire, has been named as the slowest for broadband internet, according to an annual survey. The study said homes on Greenmeadows Park averaged just 0.14 megabits per second (Mbps). The fastest spot, by contrast, is said to offer speeds that are nearly 1,900 times faster. It was named as Abdon Avenue in Birmingham, where the average speed was

"Many customers who experience fixed broadband or landline loss will soon automatically receive compensation. The £8-per-day deal follows a new agreement between Openreach and five of the UK's internet service providers. It will apply only when the fault takes longer than two days to fix. If an engineer does not arrive on schedule, or cancels within 24 hours, the compensation will be £25....

"RBS customer lost thousands of pounds in scam .... This is how the fraud on Charlotte was carried out: Bank records show the fraudster initially calls the bank, posing as Charlotte, and asks for her account to be reset for security reasons. Staff follow the bank's usual security protocol and call Charlotte's landline number, unaware the call has been diverted to a mobile phone

In court this week.

On 02/12/2018 13:50, R. Mark Clayton wrote: On Saturday, 1 December 2018 23:18:07 UTC, +++ATH0 wrote: On 2018-11-27 12:59, I wrote: Fiber engineers are like gold dust now. ITYM technicians. Monkeys pulling fibres through ducts are not engineers. It was ferrets, not monkeys, but these days they blow fibres usually.

I'm trying to figure out what is available on a FTTP line. It's an almost-new-build property which currently has BT FTTP. Magsys Codelook says for the postcode: "FTTC Available from 11th January 2017, being expanded by March 2019, FTTP from 25th July 2016, FTTP on Demand." However the address doesn't show on some checkers and the phone number isn't recognised. Confusingly, around the corner...

I have a Draytek 2860n as my main (VDSL) router and an old 2820n being used as a wireless access point to extend coverage as we have a large house. The 2820n has its WANs turned off and has a wired connection from its LAN side to the 2860n LAN. It's all running on the usual 192.168.1.x LAN subnet. I have the 2860n set to use channel 11 for WiFi and the 2820n is set to use channel 6 (there...

Colleague of mine has just bought his first house. The master socket is in a stupid place - what's the best kind of cable to run from there to where his router will be? He'd like to keep the 80Mbps he gets from the cab across the road. (Cable fatness is not an issue. The first job was to strip a load of walls back to get rid of the asbestos-ridden plaster - done by pros in suits. Complete...

5G hyping getting into its stride ... "5G will let users ditch fixed-line home broadband, says Three" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46127712 Actually, out here in northern Scotland, 4G could already make my landline redundant if only there was a suitably priced plan that gave me unlimited or nearly so download limits, but AFAIAA there isn't.

Plusnet have changed their billing system and sent me two emails, first to say that this months bill would be delayed, and later to say that it was available. But the usual web links to billing simply don't work, bringing up all sorts of error messages. Don't they test new systems at all? Or maybe they have hired the same IT bunch as TSB? There are scores of postings on the forum...

Telecom wayleave cannot now be refused by land owners ----------------------------------------------------- The £1000 per sqft rip off charges by landlords also gone. You can only ask what you would reasonably do with that land. So if a telecom company is siting a box and its occupying a few sq ft, and its waste land, then you can expect to be paid £3.

For some years I used to use a small USB dongle from Three to access the Internet. I had a contract on a monthly basis for 5GB at £15 - that was OK for me. Then the damn device kept disconnecting. Payment was on DD. So last year I complained and got suckered into a Wifi device again USB connected. This was on a yearly contract for £17 for 20GB. Again payment was on DD. The previous DD was...

My neighbour Tony has ADSL from Plusnet. Last Tuesday Tony ordered - via the Plusnet Member Centre - an upgrade to FTTC. He received an acknowlegement email Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 3:40 PM which includes the text: """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" We've received your product change request and have now started the process of moving your products...

Why is UK shiite telecum 4000% more expensive than the developed world? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shiite sucking telecum engineers possibly? Or their trolling managers spreading shiite? The entire UK telecum industry is drenched in shiite fluids. They stink to high heaven helped by the little shiites sneaking

How does a shiiite BT (British Telecum) engineer make a mobile call underground? ------------------------------------------------------------------- Why he takes a plane to China, get into the underground, turns on his roaming and make a call from China underground!!!! Thats what it means to be shiiite BT engineer, or a shiiite Ofcum thick shhit regulating the UK telecum market, or DCMS...

UK Shiiite Internet 4000% more expensive than developed world ------------------------------------------------------------- You buy a £2000 gaming PC and try to play with UK's shiiite Internet and then you loose the game. Who do you blame? Start with the lying trolls in government at DCMS, then move on to BT (British Telecum), Ofcum, VM, Openroach and any other cumpany that votes to...

Configuration is: Vigor 2860 WAN1 connected to VDSL service from Zen Internet WAN2 connected to modem to ADSL service from Plusnet. Error Router: Message The problem with Plusnet is present regardless of whether WAN1 is used or not.