i got a text and email today saying someone from virgin is coming to collect my old kit today. odd since they said they sending out packaging but this makes it easier and quicker i guess. email even gives name of the person coming to collect the stuff so just letting people know how the procedure is.
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My VM connection continues to get worse.
It's usable now, compared to when it was dropping to <5mbps in the evenings. I've written some enchancements for the software I found to log download speeds, to graph rolling averages and calculate overall averages, too.
Average is still only 170mbps over the last week an the hourly rolling averages still take massive dips!
VM replaced the concreted over toby point outside my house last week and are pulling new cable on Friday. It'll be interesting to see if it offers any improvement, but I bet it won't!
It's usable now, compared to when it was dropping to <5mbps in the evenings. I've written some enchancements for the software I found to log download speeds, to graph rolling averages and calculate overall averages, too.
Average is still only 170mbps over the last week an the hourly rolling averages still take massive dips!
VM replaced the concreted over toby point outside my house last week and are pulling new cable on Friday. It'll be interesting to see if it offers any improvement, but I bet it won't!
Yea mine was picked up few mins ago. You dont get any notice other than the email and the text on the same day they are collecting it out of the blue.
Wonder what they do with it since hub4 is out dunno why they would want a hub3 back.
Wonder what they do with it since hub4 is out dunno why they would want a hub3 back.
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To help hit their targets on recycling of electronic waste is likely a part of the reason.
Do you have Sky Q? As mine does not want to connect to the unifi access point.
I do but I run the main box wired.
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I've seen lots of people saying that, but I didn't have any problems connecting them to my AP-AC-LR's. It all worked fine, though I've since disabled wifi on the Q boxes as I finally ran some ethernet upstairs.
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My Sky Q box has never worked well with Wifi over multiple different APs I've had. I've always had to wire it.
The same goes for my Mini box actually, it simply can't maintain a wifi connection to the main box.
Main Q box connected to a switch with one other mine, other two minis connect to the AP with 0 problems. Don't ever drop connection.
They don't connect to the very high channels, can't remember off hand what ones. The extremely high channels..
My post code has finally gone live, although in a few months I'm moving round the corner to a house with full FTTP and no VM services. I was going to order and cancel within 14 days just to see what it's like but it seems like hassle. Only a few more months of 60/15 or so and I'll be on 900/100!
Because it’s OR FTTP rather than an alt-net.
Everyone is asymmetric on upload other than leased lines and selected alt-nets, ISDN was the last real symmetrical service offered to consumers and that was still dialup/pre-ADSL.
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You're forgetting SDSL but that wasn't overly widespread.
Not exactly, I said consumer, SDSL from what I remember never made it onto the consumer price list at BT (this was pre-OR). I mean back in the very early days when profile speed was governed by U/P it was possible for someone with faster profile from his/her employer to use those credentials on another connection eg a residential one as long as they made sure they were the first person into the office on Monday or had remote access to dial in and re-enable it, but that’s not quite the same thing and for legal reasons that never happened. Ever.
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It did make it onto the pricelist but not for long. I had a 2Mbps SDSL from BT from 2009 - 2012.
Wish me luck, its that time of year where I've got to phone them up to "negotiate" a new contract.
Current one ends in a couple of weeks, & goes up £15pm.
What seems to be the average price for just BB at the moment? I'm on the M200 package. Was thinking around £30?
Current one ends in a couple of weeks, & goes up £15pm.
What seems to be the average price for just BB at the moment? I'm on the M200 package. Was thinking around £30?