10 days with no proper internet

[srb7677]

Time to splurge on porn.

At least we know what you do on the internet when you are not talking shit on politics forums,

[Barry]

Well, although we thought we had done something to the router it now transpires that the cabinets in the village do not have sufficient spare capacity to connect us. There is a broken device and they don't have a spare part or a spare position, so we have to wait until Monday.
So tethering with the phone for now.
It's Openreach's problem not Sky.

[patman post]

Our Openreach guy said very few people want a landline these days. With Sky it becomes a VOIP line in any case.

Our mobiles operate over our broadband at home, so I guess that's much the same except the cost for someone calling. The idea of a non-DECT landline is security should the electricity be cut...

[papasmurf]

I reckon we could have fried a board with 50v on the telephone line,

Have you tried the reset button? (Ducks and runs.)

[Barry]

and the landline is still too quiet.

Our Openreach guy said very few people want a landline these days. With Sky it becomes a VOIP line in any case.

[Barry]

was it a Hub 3 ?

No, it was an early version. But the later model wasn't much better which made me suspect the Samsung tv.

Anyway, today we have no Internet as Mrs didn't like the position of the router and wanted to try it in an upstairs socket. We tried it and it didn't work, so we returned it to its original socket and it still didn't work. I reckon we could have fried a board with 50v on the telephone line, but we'll find out on Thursday when the engineer comes. Which is why I'm now sitting in my daughter's lounge having walked along with brief case to get some proper Internet work done.

I asked my Mrs whether aesthetics trumped having Internet, she just scowled at me.

[patman post]

I wish we'd not moved from Virgin. Mrs thought linking her EE phone account with EE broadband wast sensible. It did come in about £10 a month cheaper, but the hassle in changing over the broadband and landline caused by OpenBreach lasted for a week, and the landline is still too quiet. Internet speed is variable, plus I've had to install extenders to reach through the house (Virgin reached into the garden). We're moving back to Virgin ASAP and keeping as far away from BT as possible...

[johnofgwent]

Mine was caused by moving house to live in Kent. I've gone from Virgin Media to Sky.
My Virgin Media router used to come up as "poor signal" with the TV in the same room. With Sky the TV is working at a further distance with a door in between.

was it a Hub 3 ?

Mine is two floors down with structural steel girders running the full width of the roof, holding up a dormer loft extension whose floor could withstand the weight of an an industrial server rack, by design, signed off by the architect and insured on that basis ... and my virgin hub punches 42% right through THAT, Unless that door of yours and the whole wall has a faraday cage you were sold a duff one....

[Barry]

Mine was caused by moving house to live in Kent. I've gone from Virgin Media to Sky.
My Virgin Media router used to come up as "poor signal" with the TV in the same room. With Sky the TV is working at a further distance with a door in between.

[Streetwalker]

Indeed , There have been a lot of complaints locally about the service as people work from home . We are supposed to have a super fast ,we wont let you down deal and the Mrs spent half her first week working from home watching A place in the sun .

Things do seem better today ,maybe they have fixed it , whatever it was .

[Barry]

Thanks for your suggestion, Baff.   

[Baff]

Time to splurge on porn.

[Barry]

ended today.
Aaaaaggghhh!