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[Lizzie_Zoom]

I have just been upgraded to BT Affinity and the speed of my PC, and BT Vision when on I-Players, is amazing.

I now click and the link is there.  I enter a post and it goes straight on.  No delay, no buffering, and with free anytime calls I have saved on my overall BT bill!

Has anyone else on here got such a result by going BT Affinity?

[tunnie]

You mean infinity 

It's fast, but I'm used to Cable Internet speeds anyway.

[geoffr70]

It's great for publicly calling someone a criminal too, that's really fast.

[STMO123]

It's great for iplayer too, that way you don't need a tv licence.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

It's great for iplayer too, that way you don't need a tv licence.

You stirrer Steve!

[Gaffers]

It has so far taken BT (Openreach) 17 months to run a power cable about 400m in order to get my distribution box switching to fibre.  To say I am pissed off about the subject is an understatement.  Despite direct comms with the engineer I have yet to receive a decent explanation as to why. 

To plagiarize an admin's turn of phrase; the Openreach team in NE Hants are nothing but a bunch of useless inbred, docile, incompetent breaktards   

[TheBoy]

To plagiarize an admin's turn of phrase; the Openreach team in NE Hants are nothing but a bunch of useless inbred, docile, incompetent breaktards   

Would it surprise you to know the OR are taking on ex-services people faster than the government can get rid of them....   ....and the local mgrs are unimpressed with them, though its probably a difficult transistion.


LZ - OOF runs from a FTTC line (what BT Retail call Infinity) provided by Zen Internet, and I have a BT Business Infinity line here as well. Cloud based computing now works like its supposed to, and is completely different to ADSL based services from that perspective.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

To plagiarize an admin's turn of phrase; the Openreach team in NE Hants are nothing but a bunch of useless inbred, docile, incompetent breaktards   

Would it surprise you to know the OR are taking on ex-services people faster than the government can get rid of them....   ....and the local mgrs are unimpressed with them, though its probably a difficult transistion.


LZ - OOF runs from a FTTC line (what BT Retail call Infinity) provided by Zen Internet, and I have a BT Business Infinity line here as well. Cloud based computing now works like its supposed to, and is completely different to ADSL based services from that perspective.

Thanks for that info TB

[Gaffers]

To plagiarize an admin's turn of phrase; the Openreach team in NE Hants are nothing but a bunch of useless inbred, docile, incompetent breaktards   

Would it surprise you to know the OR are taking on ex-services people faster than the government can get rid of them....   ....and the local mgrs are unimpressed with them, though its probably a difficult transistion.

Actually I knew that already, but what did OR expect when employing a bunch of ex-scalybacks who are experienced in used technology from the 70's/80's?

This is not directed at you personally so please dont take it to heart but I honestly cannot understand the delay.  6 months I could have put up with but 17 is taking the proverbial.

[TheBoy]

To plagiarize an admin's turn of phrase; the Openreach team in NE Hants are nothing but a bunch of useless inbred, docile, incompetent breaktards   

Would it surprise you to know the OR are taking on ex-services people faster than the government can get rid of them....   ....and the local mgrs are unimpressed with them, though its probably a difficult transistion.

Actually I knew that already, but what did OR expect when employing a bunch of ex-scalybacks who are experienced in used technology from the 70's/80's?

This is not directed at you personally so please dont take it to heart but I honestly cannot understand the delay.  6 months I could have put up with but 17 is taking the proverbial.

I ain't OR (or BT for that matter), so no worry about taking it to heart. However, I do have close ties in, so know whats going on. In addition to my professional links, I've just spent 5 days in Iceland with an OR manager 

Ex-services may be useless struggling with the transision out of the forces, but are cheap, and obedient, and cheap. Oh, and cheap


Although a delay like that is more likely to things outside OR's control, based on my experiences.

[aaronjb]

To plagiarize an admin's turn of phrase; the Openreach team in NE Hants are nothing but a bunch of useless inbred, docile, incompetent breaktards   

Would it surprise you to know the OR are taking on ex-services people faster than the government can get rid of them....   ....and the local mgrs are unimpressed with them, though its probably a difficult transistion.

Actually I knew that already, but what did OR expect when employing a bunch of ex-scalybacks who are experienced in used technology from the 70's/80's?

This is not directed at you personally so please dont take it to heart but I honestly cannot understand the delay.  6 months I could have put up with but 17 is taking the proverbial.

A friend of mine just moved into a swanky new development in greater London which is cabled for FTTP (and listed on BT's own site as an FTTP development) .. slight problem that nobody can tell him (or the developers) when BT plan on hooking that fibre up to anything. Oh, and there's no copper on the development either so he's not entirely sure he can have any kind of phone line

So.. look on the bright side

[Marks DTM Calib]

Are they still sticking to the power/comms separation rules in the duct runs.

I can see exactly why it's taken so long because if there is anything out of the norm then it's a mare (blame the legal lot!)

[VXL V6]

To plagiarize an admin's turn of phrase; the Openreach team in NE Hants are nothing but a bunch of useless inbred, docile, incompetent breaktards   

Would it surprise you to know the OR are taking on ex-services people faster than the government can get rid of them....   ....and the local mgrs are unimpressed with them, though its probably a difficult transistion.

Actually I knew that already, but what did OR expect when employing a bunch of ex-scalybacks who are experienced in used technology from the 70's/80's?

This is not directed at you personally so please dont take it to heart but I honestly cannot understand the delay.  6 months I could have put up with but 17 is taking the proverbial.

A friend of mine just moved into a swanky new development in greater London which is cabled for FTTP (and listed on BT's own site as an FTTP development) .. slight problem that nobody can tell him (or the developers) when BT plan on hooking that fibre up to anything. Oh, and there's no copper on the development either so he's not entirely sure he can have any kind of phone line

So.. look on the bright side

Hmmm, with our developments we always install Cat6 to all areas and get BT to adopt the wiring so they only have to punch down a link to the DP when a subscriber requests a line. Of course the problem we keep facing is that various BT regions will only pull the most minimal (20 Pair usually) cable to the DP, despite the properties having between 30 - 150 rooms.

Oh and we take around 8 pairs for EFM, DSL's, lift lines etc 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

  my thread is getting very technical!

It has suddenly gone from English to some strange electronic langauge

[tunnie]

... and you have still to get its retail product name right