BT Broadband

[smithy69]

My connection is going haywire and wont work properly. Has anyone else had probs

it has been sending out like 10,000 bytes, but is only receiving like 500 back

Anyone know whats up

[Heid]

My connection is going haywire and wont work properly. Has anyone else had probs

it has been sending out like 10,000 bytes, but is only receiving like 500 back

Anyone know whats up

I was with BT Broadband for about 4 years (early adopter me!), and every so often your home pod (the part of the network you connect to would go tits up badly), their website does tell you what pods are playing up. It's just a matter of waiting it out with them

Heid
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[I KNOW IT]

Im having problems with mine too, srry all those numbers are to techy for me, just know theres something not right.

[Robert HM]

Ironsides having probs as well. Very strange. He was chip leader at the time.

It's not strange that he's having connection problems just strange that he was chip leader  

[I KNOW IT]

mines gone ok now

[Heid]

Ironsides having probs as well. Very strange. He was chip leader at the time.

It's not strange that he's having connection problems just strange that he was chip leader  

"The whole internet backbone went awry when ironside was briefly chip leader during an MTT. Normal service will be resumed after AK is (mis)played." - Reuters

[Bongo]

All working fine here on BT broa

[smithy69]

Mines working ok now, i was chip leader in a rounders game,

start again

[Dewi_cool]

been having problems with mine too, last couple of days

[Sheriff Fatman]

Mine's been tits up for the last 6 hours or so.  Thankfully the 3G card is a handy backup.

Sheriff

[Acidmouse]

same, downloads are snail pace atm

[Ironside]

i just lost several hundred bucks due to bt broadband

was playing in a couple of STT $50 extremme turbos got booted
also was signed up to another didnt get to play a hand

then i got back sat down to play some more

first one started 3 players left i had 3200 out of the 5k in chips booted came 3rd and lost the buy in for the next game i was waiting to start but atleast i got 27cents from my 100% of the rakeback on my downline

i am miffed

[M3boy]

Get Bulldog broadband.

I now their customer service is $hite, but the service itself is ok - only had problems once in the last year

[Heid]

The situation for Broadband is a weird one in this country.

Basically at the moment BT own all the phone lines and exchanges. They are the ones that companies have to lease DSL lines from, and also have to liaise with in order to get customers connected to their particular DSL network.

Because BT have their own product, they can be rather "tardy" in dealing with customer orders, as it is in their own interest.

LLU (local loop unbundling) will be coming into force quite soon - this will mean that companies can buy and manage their own exchanges, so there will be less wait for BT to get their act in order - although there is a question as to how companies that have never had bricks and mortar things to manage will cope with this is open to discussion.

It's got to be a good thing though, to have to deal with a company as a competitor and a landlord must be a bit of a nightmare.

I deal with quite a few broadband issues as part of my job, and to get things moving in some cases has been a nightmare.

I'd suggest that if you are about to take on a Broadband connection, you see what their strategy is going to be regarding LLU and the size of their outfit. Contention is also an interesting concept that I would advise anyone to look at carefully as well. Contention is the number of people they allow to share your pipe - contention above 25 isn't going to be good.

I was with BT for ages (very early adopter - they used my house to demonstrate how to install the product!), and all was ok for a while, until they got busier, then it started to suffer.

I now share a 2meg connection over 2 pc's, and am pretty happy with it.

Heid
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[Nem]

The situation for Broadband is a weird one in this country.

Basically at the moment BT own all the phone lines and exchanges. They are the ones that companies have to lease DSL lines from, and also have to liaise with in order to get customers connected to their particular DSL network.

Because BT have their own product, they can be rather "tardy" in dealing with customer orders, as it is in their own interest.

LLU (local loop unbundling) will be coming into force quite soon - this will mean that companies can buy and manage their own exchanges, so there will be less wait for BT to get their act in order - although there is a question as to how companies that have never had bricks and mortar things to manage will cope with this is open to discussion.

It's got to be a good thing though, to have to deal with a company as a competitor and a landlord must be a bit of a nightmare.

I deal with quite a few broadband issues as part of my job, and to get things moving in some cases has been a nightmare.

I'd suggest that if you are about to take on a Broadband connection, you see what their strategy is going to be regarding LLU and the size of their outfit. Contention is also an interesting concept that I would advise anyone to look at carefully as well. Contention is the number of people they allow to share your pipe - contention above 25 isn't going to be good.

I was with BT for ages (very early adopter - they used my house to demonstrate how to install the product!), and all was ok for a while, until they got busier, then it started to suffer.

I now share a 2meg connection over 2 pc's, and am pretty happy with it.

Heid
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Who is you ISP?