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January 02nd, 2020

2/1/2020

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What went wrong ?

I've had 6 of these faulty from 3 different suppliers. I'm not buying these again. The Loud button doesn't work, they test faulty making your phone line permanently engaged.
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May 23rd, 2019

23/5/2019

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BBC iPlayer / Catchup TV (samething)

Well lots of calls recently about Catch up TV not working. TV says sign in to your BBC iPlayer account.

BBC have started making everyone that uses it - Create an account and sign in on all there devices. Also the other channels ITV CH4 are following suit. lots of puzzled technophobes out there now.

Go to BBC iPlayer / ITV / CH4 on your laptop / iPad / Smart phone - Create an account - pair up your account to your TV with the pairing code. Simple !
"But I just wanted to watch TV"
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High get out clause.

11/3/2019

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Here Im going to list companies with extortionate get out clauses. I.E. > £100
Most well know companies typically have a £55 get out fee.

Chess   £1080 get out clause !?*

3 year tie in ?
​Chess ICT
​chessict.co.uk

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Fibre to your house does now exist

11/3/2019

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Generally fibre is just to the green box then still same old copper wire up to your house. 
    Fibre all the way into the property is now available and being installed in some new housing estates. It can be installed at older properties but it might cost a bob or two.
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BT Home hub 7 wifi

28/10/2017

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The new BT hub 7 with the amazing wifi - NOT

Incapable of passing through a wall. Having set up 3 of these in a week, and having customers complaining of not getting the wifi arroung the house. Ive come to the conclution that this version could not penetrate a paper bag!

Wont
infiltrate
far
if at  all
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You get what you pay for.

21/7/2017

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My broadband is now running fast like it used to. Since upgrading the EE broadband package it is working much better - back to how it used to be. 
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Whirling buffering thingy

20/6/2016

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    Well i've given Im fed up with the whirling buffering thingy its really spoiling the flow of Breaking bad on Net-flicks, so I've signed up for EE faster up to 38Mbps. EE are guaranteeing me a minimum connection speed of 2.5Mbps – GEE THANKS – and say my line can handle 4 – 20Mbps. Considering it ran very happily at 10.5Mbps for 3 years when EE was EE and TV was TV where do they get 2.5 and 4 from ?
    What it boils down to this - Pay an extra £3/month to watch what I want to watch when I want to watch,  with no adverts and hopefully no whirling buffering thingy.
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EE BT broadband slow down

8/3/2016

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 My broadband is on a go slow slow since BT took over EE. It was a respectable 10.5 Mbs for 3 years but its now for no reason at all gone down to 7.5 Mbs. Im not the only one to noticing a slow down with EE. Being a phone / broadband engineer I've checked my wiring and other peoples to make sure its ok. I rang EE who said “its within my expected range” and “ no they have not slowed it down” .
Coincidence ? Or have I been "tapered" If your kids are hamering your B/B the service provider will sometime turn down the tap on your hosepipe sighting the "fair use" policy.
Its most likely a ploy to get us to sign up for more expensive fibre optic broadband.
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BT hub problems

28/10/2015

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    Ever wonder why your BT hub will not work with certain devices I.E. WiFi access points ethernet over power etc.
    When you first connect a device to a router via WiFi most routers take you straight to the internet. Not BT . They make you go through a series of pages setting up BT this BT that, parental controls etc . This is confusing enough for a human never mind a dumb access point. Its all part of BT's policy of making everything evermore increasingly and pointlessly complicated.


     To get round this you must go into your router settings through http://bthomehub.home and login. Once there follow this guide http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/44328/ you must turn OFF smart setup.
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Slow Sky broad band

28/10/2015

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    I regularly test broad band lines of all the service providers and sky never seems any faster than 3-5Mbs . Despite having all the best conditions for getting fast broadband I.E. close to the exchange and good wiring. It seems as they have some sort of limit on them. Any one else getting this ?
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