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| 25 May 2006 08:55:07 |
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| Do they have to come in green, I hate green, will they come in other colours like orange? |
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kingswells.guest
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| 25 May 2006 09:57:54 |
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| Careful now, not everyone here has a sense of Irony. |
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kingswells.guest
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| 25 May 2006 10:31:43 |
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| I agree, I think they should be orange like our website.
We could also have the website details on each box, what do you think? |
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| 07 Jun 2006 06:32:02 |
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| frankly, i am disgusted and appalled by these purile posters. what does it matter whether the boxes come in green orange blue or rainbow colours? does this help at all with the current discussion? No. So stop posting and wasting my time. i am overwhelmed with excitement whenever i see a new post on the broadband discussion page and to find that the new messages are nothing but immature and idiotic replies by clowns of the respectable kingswells society..well it makes my blood boil!
oh dear...i guess my post doesnt really further the developement of the current discussion either..:msn_grin: |
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kingswells.guest
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| 13 Jun 2006 09:23:00 |
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| I live in Wellside End and I received my broadband modem last Friday and it was due to be up and running on Friday too. My husband installed it on Saturday and, guess what, it doesn't work. He phoned BT - who said that it was a problem with our computer, so he tried it on his laptop and it didn't work on that either! BT are adamant that we can receive broadband though! Just wondered if anyone else had encountered the same problem?
Answers on a postcard please - as now the dial-up internet connection is extremely slow! |
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kingswells.guest
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| 13 Jun 2006 10:01:28 |
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| really Frankly...if you are overwhelmed with excitment every time you see a new post, you need to get out more. |
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kingswells.guest
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| 13 Jun 2006 14:02:07 |
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| If you remove the micro filters from your phone lines the modem will operate at the nominal speed. My modem was exactly the same when trying out my broadband and returned to normal after removing them. |
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| 13 Jun 2006 14:03:52 |
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| PS. The last post referred to your dial up modem not the broadband one. |
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kingswells.guest
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| 15 Jun 2006 17:07:35 |
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| This amazes me.
Why are you guys subscribing to broadband via BT’s retail division? It’s BT’s fault so many have been without broadband for the past 4 years. The technology they are using in the street cabinets existed 4 years ago and is already widely used on the continent. BT has simply been too stingy to provide the infrastructure.
OK
So you are thinking …
BT Openreach are installing the street cabinets, so I will need to subscribe to BT Broadband
NO !!! This is wrong
BT Openreach, are required by ofcom to sell their product wholesale at the same price to all ISP’s without discrimination. They even have to sell it to their own retail division at the same price as they do to everyone else
Subscribing via BT retail will not get you broadband any quicker. Nor will it get you a better quality of service. It will just encourage the continual bad attitude towards geographically challenged areas such as Kingswells
On the other hand subscribing to a different ISP will encourage innovation and competition in the form of local loop unbundling (i.e. non BT infrastructure), which will allow you to subscribe better services at a lower cost.
Don’t use BT Retail for either your telephone or internet services !!!
LETS ALL PUNSIH BT FINANCIALLY FOR THEIR RECENT ATTITUDE TOWARDS KINGSWELLS !!!
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kingswells.guest
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| 18 Jun 2006 15:56:53 |
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| I am a BTinternet dial-up customer,on 4 June I placed an order for BTbroadband and requested an activation date of 13 June,this order was confirmed by email on same day. At 0840 on 5 june I got a automated call from BT confirm the activation date as 13 June.
By 0800 on 13June I had received no email advising that my line was not being activated and at 1100 I received the Router and associated cables and CD so I thought this is it!
Also on that day the Green cabinets at Concraig gds had BT engineers working on them most of the day,so I got quite excited.
At 2015 I started the broadband set up and by the end I had all lights on the router
lit and steady but message advising connection not possible.I spoke to the BTbroadband help line and they confirmed I was connected but could not explain why I could not connect,no thats not irish its Indian!
I contacted BT Internet at 0800 on 14 June and was advised that I could not be connected because of the cabling on my line(that came as a shock}
The lady I spoke to knew all about the DSLAM trial but could help further and refered me to BT Wholesale website,I tried that but it uses same availabilty system
as BT retail.
Now here comes the best bit,that same day in the post arrived a letter from the Customer Service Director,Jillian G Lewis at BTplc,Correspondence Centre,TVTE,Gatehead,NE11 0ZZ advising me "that checks have been completed on your line and we have found you are unable to have BTbroadband"
I have written to this person asking for an explanation of the events which took place and asking her to comment on current state of affairs,I have included her full
name and address so that other interest parties can write if they wish.
If and when I get a reply I will post it on the forum. |
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| 19 Jun 2006 18:01:52 |
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| This may put a smile on some of your faces. Today 19th June in the adslguide I found this information taken from The Times newspaper.
Ofcom took over responsibility for an investigation into potential abuse by BT of its dominant position in the retail broadband market place from Oftel, and it looks like an investigation that has been running for four years may be coming to a close. A potential solution if BT is found to have had its hand well and truly in the cookie jar might be for Ofcom to make a fine of up to 10% of the BT group revenues, which amount to £19.5billion.
You can read some more on the possible fine over at The Times Online. Some of our older news items relating to the investigation are to be found at the links below:
I am trying not to feel sorry for them.
Mr Fibble |
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kingswells.guest
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| 20 Jun 2006 02:45:45 |
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| Is this the same Mr. Fibble, the BT champion of old, who wouldn't touch wireless with a bargepole (and rightly so as it turned out).
BT may be painfully slow and incompetent, but they're our only option right now. If they're fined £19.5B, then that's them down the tubes.
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| 20 Jun 2006 18:08:34 |
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| If BT being fined 19.5B brought them down the tube, then bring it on.
The best thing that could happen is for bt to be broken up and sold off. It would introduce competition and innovation into the market.
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| 25 Jun 2006 16:25:17 |
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| I have just signed up for broadband with Talk Talk. I get my calls/line rental with them and appears to be a good deal. Has anyone else signed up and if so, how is it performing? |
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| 27 Jun 2006 01:54:18 |
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| I noticed the TalkTalk people were in the area last week with 3 or 4 sales man doing a door-to-door campaign to get new customers. The guy that was at my door claimed that I could get the free broadband deal so they obviously have not done their homework about Kingswells and the broadband desert here. I'm in Concraig and not getting broadband at any time unless the DSLAM trials ever go commercial.
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kingswells.guest
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| 27 Jun 2006 02:50:00 |
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| Wow a fellow realist, how refreshing. |
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| 30 Jun 2006 10:26:59 |
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| Just been looking at the samknows website and they say that Carphone warehouse (TalkTalk) are the only people looking at LLU in Kingswells and they have a ready for service date of 31/8/06
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange.php?ecode=NSKGW
so if Ofcom need to have other providers ready before BT can sell we are looking at at least 1 september I guess.
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| 30 Jun 2006 11:14:17 |
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| Hello,
The Kingswells exchange covers all of Westhill and Kingswells. It really is almost in Westhill which is why Kingswells North has such poor coverage and there is a need for TPON. |
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kingswells.guest
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| 02 Jul 2006 06:50:51 |
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| Nothing to stop talk talk from deploying street cabinets in kingswells, There has been nothing stopping any LLU deploying street cabinets since day one. It's certainly not BT's responsibility to proviide street cabinets for LLU. Infact, bradband4kingswells wrote to LLU isp's sugesting street cabinet technology 2 years ago, however it was deemed too expensive.
The only obligation BT have from ofcom is to lease the local loops. if talk talk want to do LLU in kingswells then they will need to build their own street cabinets at the nearest BT distribution box |
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