BT Problem, anyone else?

[Neil Davey]

No trouble here Rob

Haven’t you been paying your bill 😉

[Robert Lambie]

cant be that mate, i send them all my empty irn-bru bottles every month to settle my bill. 😳 😉

[Cheryl Tissington]

Nope, everything fine here Rob,

been online all day ! 😀

[Nick Minall]

mine is fine 😀 and I’m with bt.

[Derek Heron]

lost e mail for about two hours
no spam 😛
what am i going to do no stock to buy no watches no viagra
ok now
derek

[Robert Lambie]

thanks for feedback folks, im guessing they only meant scotland? 😕

[Lynn Normington]

Not here Rob 🙄

Lynn

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Robert Lambie:

i send them all my empty irn-bru bottles every month to settle my bill. 😳 😉

good idea rob….im gonna have to raid brads room :lol1: :lol1:

its fine where i am…..so far 😕 😉

nik

[David Rowland]

Wanadoo ADSL Broadband was not verifiying passwords earlier…

[Robert Lambie]

quote Dave Rowland:

Wanadoo ADSL Broadband was not verifiying passwords earlier…

thats the one… thats what i was getting mate. had the up & down stream correct but just wouldnt let me log-online. username/password error all the time 😀

so im not alone 😉

[Lynn Normington]

you may be 🙄

[Martin Pearson]

I use AOL and I couldn’t connect through broadband for about 4 hours, must have been a large scale problem because I tried for ages to get through to the AOL help desk but kept getting an engaged tone, must have been a lot of other people trying to get that, when I did finally get through their was a massage saying if you were trying to connect broadband there was a problem and they were working to resolve it. I thought it was an AOL problem but maybe not.

[John Childs]

No problem here.

[Nigel Pugh]

Rob I had the same problem last night between 6pm and 7.30pm, my router was connecting to the net as usual but you still couldn’t get onto the net.

Guess it must have been Scotland and Tamworth, never realised that we shared the same telephone line 😀

[David Rowland]

I had a call from someone who was struggling to connect to Wanadoo, I put it down to a bad-moment.
However I use a adsl router, so it remains connected 24hours a day

[Robert Lambie]

martin i believe aol and various other companies just rent their lines from bt wholesale, probably why so many went down. i guess if bt blunders the rest get the knock on?

nigel, i had a very odd package from grafityp today mate.
it was addressed to “WEE ROB LAMBIE” 😮
now i wonder, who the hell would do something like that? 🙄

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
nice one mate, put a smile on my face first thing and also the rest of the folk in the office at the time. 😳 :lol1: :lol1:

😉

[Hugh Potter]

doh ! i thought it was the computer ! uninstalled all the btyahoo stuff (though we use wanadoo connection as a base) and put firefox in instead, still didnt work, then it did ! this was over the weekend though, and earlier in the week it happened to the kids pc, went down for no reason, still showing connection but not letting you online, then back on,

[Nigel Pugh]

That Deb Astle told me to do it Rob, honest 😳

[Marcella Ross]

Robert,

I gave up trying to access the net last night. It would connect but it was soooooo sssssllllloooowwwww. Supposed to be broadband but way slower than dial up. I was demented so gave up and watched the telly instead!
Mind you I’m only down the road from you, I perhaps caught the same disease! 😀

[Debbie Astle]

quote Nigel Pugh:

That Deb Astle told me to do it Rob, honest 😳

Yep, I did Rob, and of course Nigel is very obedient and always does everything I tell him to 😀

😮 Nigel Pugh, your nose will grow.

[Robert Lambie]

quote Debbie Astle:

quote Nigel Pugh:

That Deb Astle told me to do it Rob, honest 😳

Yep, I did Rob, and of course Nigel is very obedient and always does everything I tell him to 😀

😮 Nigel Pugh, your nose will grow.

nige, that’s Debbie outed you mate…

quote :

Nigel is very obedient and always does everything I tell him to

obedience? so what else does it for you mate, walking up and down your back in high heels? 😮 :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

or is that just me? 😳

😉

[David Rowland]

your right about BT running the whole show, they do, just consider it like Gas, transco, british gas, whoever, it’s who you pay or money for as it is the same internet that comes down the pipe.

however authentication should be handled by the ISP. Eclipse (who I am with) died week or so ago, they appologised but the whole eclipse died for hours and it was a software bug (more likely a worm killed the internet)

[Patrick Donaghey]

i used to use aol as they were the cheapest but since i moved to bt them selves it great . the connection never goes down and i use a voyager 2100 router to send the broadband to 3desktops (1wired 2 wireless) and wireless to a laptop .

[David Rowland]

AOL is home internet, thats their target audience, it’s the odd one out as they use there own methods. Had trouble in past with their spam filters with email, when I used to email an AOL address, it would bounce back the email, I was considered a spammer but I would email them about 3-4 times a day.

Also, recently someone else I know who runs a motorcycle courier in lundon, they got barred from email all their AOL customer, caused them a big problem as loss of business.

The other thing with AOL which I am not 100% certain about, all the internet traffic is routed via USA, so as soon as u connect to the AOL provider you have to go over so much hardware before you can surf.

The other thing.. is AOL connection business, on slow computers is terrbile with all that pointless aol connection software… the only thing AOL is good for is Parental control!

The only issue with BT is their pricing for ADSL business, have you seen it? £30-70 per month?
My rant over

[Robert Lambie]

yeh i think we went with telewest on broadband for business and bt on phone lines at work… or is was that vice versa? 😕