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General Discussion Area / Re: Budget.

« on: Yesterday at 09:40:36 »

State pensioners, like me, have already had a £200 winter fuel allowance and will get about £550 next April. There's nothing to moan about there. Also, over 65's get to keep their full £20,000 tax free isa allowance.
Anyone who complains about the reduction to £12,000 from April 2027....well....you can hardly claim poverty if you can afford to save that much.

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Better off spending any cash in ISAs now, can't see any point in being the richest guy in the cemetery.

Everyone's circumstances are different. My wife still, officially, has 12 years to go until retirement. She won't wait that long, of course.

You've got a wife

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General Discussion Area / Re: Openreach

« on: 20 November 2025, 11:07:07 »

Hurrah!

Openreach have converted me to full fibre this morning.

Landline will take two days to become operative.

Got compensation from BT

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General Discussion Area / Re: Openreach

« on: 05 November 2025, 13:57:21 »

Indeed, your contract is with BT/EE or whatever they call themselves this week.  You have no say or relationship with and 3rd party they use to provide the service you bought.

Generally, I think missed installs do carry some compo, only peanuts mind, so kepp on 'em

I already have

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General Discussion Area / Re: Openreach

« on: 05 November 2025, 09:41:19 »

Openreach own the network.

It's almost impossible to put a complaint into Openreach, you have to go through your broadband supplier, and in this case, it's not their fault.

Not their fault but, as Openreach is their effectively their sub contractor, they are responsible for the performance 

You have a point

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General Discussion Area / Re: Openreach

« on: 05 November 2025, 09:29:02 »

Openreach own the network.

It's almost impossible to put a complaint into Openreach, you have to go through your broadband supplier, and in this case, it's not their fault.

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General Discussion Area / Openreach

« on: 04 November 2025, 18:50:40 »

Openreach were due this morning to connect me to full fibre.

Over the last few days I've had e-mails + text messages from them asking me to confirm the appointment, which I have every time.

Appointment was between 08:00 to 13:00.

Didn't arrive, reported it and was told engineer was running late and would be there in the afternoon.

At 15:24 on my security camera, an Openreach van came into the Close, reversed and drove off.

Reported it again and was told he knocked on the door to tell us more work needed to be done.

He didn't even get out of the van, let alone stop.

New appointment now made for the 20th.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Question for computer wizards

« on: 09 October 2025, 13:21:59 »

And in your particular case AA, I suspect it was Norton.  Best get rid of that junk IMHO.  I just tried going into a Homehub via its IP on a W11 PC here, no issue.

It's not Norton, tried it on the Win 11 desktop and the ISP works fine, only fails on my laptop.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Question for computer wizards

« on: 08 October 2025, 12:16:03 »

Stange the IP isnt allowed, but at least you are in.  easy workaround.

Thanks for your help.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Question for computer wizards

« on: 08 October 2025, 12:15:29 »

Stange the IP isnt allowed, but at least you are in.  easy workaround.

 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Question for computer wizards

« on: 08 October 2025, 11:56:33 »

If I enter http://bthomehub.home/ then I can get into my router.

Unbelievable!

I've always gone in using 192 etc.

 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Question for computer wizards

« on: 08 October 2025, 11:28:36 »

Looks like only my router.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Question for computer wizards

« on: 08 October 2025, 11:27:26 »

Its weird, not something Windows does by default, nor can I think how I would make it.

So....Is it all insecure sites, or just your router.

Try http://example.com/
 and I mean that site specifically, despite the name.

Example Domain
This domain is for use in illustrative examples in documents. You may use this domain in literature without prior coordination or asking for permission.

More information...

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General Discussion Area / Re: Question for computer wizards

« on: 08 October 2025, 10:39:15 »

Wonder if that is interfering

Never interfered before on all Win 10 machines.

Just tried Firefox - same problem.

Checked the settings in Norton, cannot see anything that's blocking it.

Checked the settings in Windows Seurity, again cannot see what's blocking it.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Question for computer wizards

« on: 08 October 2025, 10:16:34 »

Are you running third party antivirus / firewall?

I'm using Norton, but always have, no problem on the Win 10 machine.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Question for computer wizards

« on: 08 October 2025, 10:14:49 »

You normally get a continue anyway button....try firefox for example, see if that gets you in?

No continue button.

I'll download Firefox later and see if that works.

I've tried Chrome and get the same result.

Thanks.