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Primus Saver / New Call Telecom - Annoying dispute
Hi All, Any input on this would be gratefully received. It should also serve as a cautionary tale: I took up the Primus Saver Broadband and Line Rental product when I moved into my new home in January of this year. During April, I begin experiencing very poor connection speeds and after a couple of weeks of working with…
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Talk Talk
Hello I have just entered into a contract with talktalk for a phoneline connection via broadband as i am a home worker as a travel agent. They are not supplying me with what i need. I have an ip phone which when connects to the broadband drops out as i am paying for upto 14mpbs but only receiving upto 0.5mpbs. Sureley if…
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Moving house - overlapping contracts?
We're with Virgin and moving house to a non-Virgin address (will probably go with BT as we want a TV package) and we'll get the new house on the 9th of August but probably not actually move until the 23rd. Can we start a new contract in the new house before the service in the old one ends without causing ourselves (or the…
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Awful behaviour from Orange
I am wondering if I can be bothered to kick up a stink about this one. Basically I am in the process of getting BT Infinity, I work from home a bit and even though it's more expensive, 55 mb/s downloads and 18 mb/s uploads (as BT has tested my line) cannot be ignore when I'm sending big files all over the work. So of…
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Herefordshire - Airband/Satellite Services
Has anyone used or had any experiences with, this company for wireless internet please? Or any satellite company in this area? T.I.A.
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Problems with Virgin Broadband
Never had a moments problem with Virgin Broadband until about six weeks ago started dropping the internet for no reason and could last several hours. Put up with it and went on holiday until last week when got an engineer out. Didnt really tell me anything but left us with a new superhub - modem and router in one. Worked…
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Which Broadband
I have been with, sky, 02, plusnet and talktalk. I have had major problems with them all mainly speed issues. I live in a 4 year old house tried all the tests had the line checked etc. Best I have had is 14mbps with talktalk but I am still unable to watch videos without the dreaded 'buffering' and on a night it slows right…
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Cheapest broadband without paying any line rental?
I'm moving into a studio apartment soon and will need broadband. But I don't want to pay line rental as I wont even use it. What are my options and what would work out the cheapest? Rich33
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Best Value phone and boradband package
Hi, my contract has expired with talktalk in April and I did not renew it and still using them, I pay £23.60 a month for my current package. I did ring them up and find out what they have on offer, but the sale person wanted all my details first and I ended up telling them I was with them, but I would not give him my…
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Sky or TalkTalk?
Hi, I've been a victim of the recession for nearly a year now and am looking to save pennies wherever I can. I currently have a packaged bundle of line rental, 24/7 calls and broadband for £31 a month and the bb is a mere 2mb connection and so archaic by today's standards. So I've been looking into what I might be able to…
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Moving home with Virgin Media into a non cabled area
I called Virgin yesterday as I am moving from a cabled into a non cabled area. I was told either take a lesser service for similer money or pay £180 termination fee. I have been a VM customer for about 14 months. I have sent them the following email this morning "Yesterday I called your customer services team to inform you…
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SKY Woes...... UPDATE!
I've recently moved house and my broadband is slow. The line was reconnected by a BT engineer and tested without fault. I'm only getting between 600kbps and 1.4mbps; SKY estimated between 2 and 5mbps. I've gone through the 10 day settling in period where they claim to test your line and increase the speed. However I've…
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BT Rip off Merchants
Hi guys i am new here and i would like some of your professional advice if possible. Back in November i ordered BT Infinity 40mb Unlimited Broadband they came and installed the broadband 16 days later so the engineer came to install it all and i asked if he could install it upstairs in my room as i read on the internet…
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unlocking mobile dongle
hi, I was wondering if anyone knows if you can unlock a dongle without using it on its native network first. I've found a cheap dongle which is a rolling contract but want to unlock it to use with another network's PAYG sim. Would I have to activate the dongle, pay for a month and then unlock it or would I be able to just…
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Mobile Internet (for laptop) - Any such thing as unlimited?
Mobile Internet (for laptop) - Any such thing as unlimited? We are currently moving around a wee bit so I am looking into getting Mobile Internet for the laptop. Using good old google, I find the usual top companies offering dongles, but the cap is set at 15gb. I know with the amount of iPlayer i downlaod and 4od/itv…
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Sky unlimited - free wifi for subsribers?
Anyone see this ad? Aparatantly if you get Sky Unlimited you can get free wifi via the cloud at McDonalds, Costa Coffee, Wetherspoons, Slug & Lettuce, Wagamama etc Funny cos I get it free anyways & I'm not a Sky Unlimited subscriber what are they playing at? :rotfl:
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Appalling customer service from Virgin
Hello, I don't know if anyone here will be able to give me much help, but I need a bit of advice. It's a bit of a long post so I'll try and make it as succinct as possible. Virgin have completely messed up the activation of some broadband at a new address. Basic facts: We moved in on the 7th, called well in advance to get…
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BT removing webspace from broadband package but won't release me from contract
Very fed up with BT, I renewed my phone and broadband for 12 months in May I use the webspace bundled with my broadband to run 3 websites for small clubs I'm involved with and part of the reason I renewed (despite cheaper options elsewhere) was I didn't want the hassle of setting that up all over again with a new ISP. Just…
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Virgin Media Broadband Speed Increase
Hi, We have been with Virgin Media since we moved house in 2010 i.e. just over 2 years. We went with them as we used to have them a few years ago and always found the broadband to be fast and reliable. During the past 2 years we stayed with our original signup package of TV 'L' and Broadband 'L'. However they keep putting…
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Orange broadband
I apologise if there is another thread similar which this could have been posted in. I am currently having my BB supplied by Orange, who have said I could get speeds of upto 4mbs in my area, however on frequent speed checks my top speed has only reached a high of 450kbs and the line frequently drops signal, usually every…
