[access-uk] AOL (was Re: Re: BT or not to BT)
- From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:13:11 +0100
Christine, I'm just curious, but are you on AOL anytime dial-up, where
you get free unlimited internet access for only £15.99 a month? If so,
then I'm on that too! I find it accessible too, however due to me having
256 MB of RAM my computer sometimes crawls if I switch to the AOL
software. Other than that I've not had any problems with AOL, well it's
extremely rare that I come into any problems. I might know a way around
this crawling. Instead of upgrading RAM I could find a programme that
will minimize AOL, as well as other applications, to the system tray.
Anyone recommend any programmes that can do this? Thanks!
On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:58:14 +0100, "Christine Weetman"
<goatmum@xxxxxxx> said:
> My Goodness, how on Earth do you find anyone to pay £50 a Month to???
> Shesh
> we'r on aol and don't pay £40 per month, andwe have no phone calls to pay
> on
> that, aol's ver accessable, well I don't get into problems with it, its
> never been down or anything and I just take my hat off to it. I've been
> offered talktalk for half of aol's price but son won't let me change as
> they
> have a 40 gig download limit and at many times we have the 4 of us
> sitting
> in this computer room tapping away on these computers and talking on the
> phone all at once. So is it really true 40 gig a month isn't very much?
> I
> can't see it somehow, but son recogns he can use that in half the month,
> any
> way of checking how much we do use? Christine.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dj Paddy" <mygroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 8:49 AM
> Subject: [access-uk] BT or not to BT
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Looks like we're going to be leaving BT for Virgin Media.
> >
> > They can't get this broadband sorted.
> >
> > We've had 5, yes 5 engineers out at the house. Out of all but one new
> what
> > she, was up to. They constantly wanted to measure signal, even though
> > yesterday morning a job was specifically booked to measure throughput.
> The
> > engineer who was booked for the job told me,
> > " I wouldn't know anything about that"
> >
> > When I explained that wholesale and retail couldn't even ping me he said,
> > "I'll get my collegue to call round as my wee XP laptop wouldn't be
> powerful
> > enough for that".
> >
> > What sortive clowns are these guys employing?
> >
> > There's been one gentleman in BT though that I have to take my hat off to.
> > He's a young fella like myself and we've screamed at engineers together.
> >
> > We've had the phone line isolated and the modem/router directly wired to
> it.
> >
> > We've had battery cleared off the line, then two weeks later a lady
> engineer
> > came and actually did clear the battery her male collegue was meant to
> have
> > cleardd.
> >
> > We've had a new card, supposably fitted in the D Slam, (Exchange).
> >
> > 4pm hits and we drop to 40k for all downloads inside the UK servers, 19K
> or
> > below for outside.
> >
> > I've been running speed tests and I'm coming back with 1700k out of a
> > possible 8128k. We're in a good area, close to the exchange, (around
> > 1500metres), and we recieve the full 8128 signal.
> >
> > The place over there is a shambles. I'm frankly pissed off by the lack of
> > knowledge their engineers have, this is compounded by them attempting to
> > hide behind jargon.
> >
> > My XP laptop isnt' powerful enough to try and see if I can ping you....
> >
> > He didn't have a clue what ping was!
> >
> > Fair enough, alot of people I'm mailing this to might not. This guy's a
> > field engineer for a broadband internet service provider!
> >
> > He also tryed to give me BS about signal to noise ratio, and like with the
> > other gentleman I explained about Shannon's theary that's used to
> formulate
> > this.
> >
> > Do these clowns talk this way to all home end users?
> >
> > Anyways, we're paying these jokers £52 a month for really crappy 8MB
> service
> > plus all inclusive telephone calls to LAN lines in the UK.
> >
> > I'm going to subscribe to £39 a month 20MB cable broadband, plus the phone
> > calls from Virgin Media.
> >
> > I've been told by a technician in BT, (naming no names), that he's on it
> at
> > home and he really gets the speeds that are promised.
> >
> > This guy's good and I trust his judgement. Come on, anything has to be
> > better than this rubbish from BT!
> >
> > I'm tired of arguing, researching and learning about DSL service and how
> it
> > works so I could force the engineers who did do work when they came out to
> > do what they where and are being payed to do!
> >
> > We could go for another DSL provider but, yes there's a 50-50 chance it'll
> > be fine, even if it's using BT lines as they're testing fine.
> >
> > I really think some routing table at least had went wrong somewhere on the
> > local network.
> >
> > I dont' want to be writing another email though like this in a months time
> > because another one wont' listen. Let's isolate it completely and not use
> > phone lines or broadband over them.
> >
> > On that, anyone got any decent Linksys cable router recommendations?
> >
> > I sold my WRT54G thinking this was going to be great with BT and am back
> in
> > the market for a wireless router that works with cable modems. N
> technology
> > is a must. I'm sure netgear and D Link are quite nice these days along
> with
> > Belcon but I've always used Linksys and I like they're web utility.
> >
> > I'll have a look at Linksys site but anything to look for would be handy.
> >
> > Thanks for listening to my tails of woe.
> >
> > My last piece of advice, educate yourselves or find someone who is more
> > technically minded to take charge because what I've experienced is that
> they
> > will hide behind anything they can including outsourced help desks. They
> > will blame everythign on you, I've had three routers and three computers
> > tested here.
> >
> > I've just decided 8MB isnt' worth this hassle when i can go to Virgin and
> > woe be tide the first manager in BT who trys to tell me that they dont'
> > promise 8MB again!
> >
> > I know they don't! But 40k and below is not an acceptible level of
> service
> > on the low end of the scale!
> >
> > My suspection is that it's too costly to send field engineer's out and
> delay
> > tactics may be being applyed in the gise of support.
> >
> >
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