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Is there anyone else on the Wirral having problems with thier phones or intermerwebs today? We've lost the use of our phone and the internet keeps dropping and my fiance can't access the internet but can use her phone! Just wondering if anyone else is in the same boat before I tear the house apart checking filters and wasting money ringing them.
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my talk talk intermerweb is always faulty! my wireless laptop is wired to my modemy thingy as the "wireless" doesnt work! hence shopping around for a new supplier =- sky any good anyone?
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Sounds like your filter. They don't last long, sadly.
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I know how crappy thier filters are, we go through the ones they send us as fast as we go through socks. It's back on for now but itll go off again
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The routers they supply suck and their 'up to 20mb!' sales line is bullshit. I'm like 200m from my exchange and get 8.5mb downstream max. That said the line hasn't dropped in over a year so at least the uptime is good. If it's speed you're after go for Virgin Media.
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I know how crappy thier filters are, we go through the ones they send us as fast as we go through socks. It's back on for now but itll go off again They used to make indestructible socks when I was a lad,the socks lasted for years but your feet wore out.Sorry, off topic.
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Problems have stopped at my house and at the fiances at the moment, all normal services restored. I was dredding the call to the call center from my mobile!
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I'm on talktalk and get over 20mb down load speeds most of the time. I've never had a filter fail - despite the call centres getting you to change them as the first guess.
Service does get mucked around with between 1am and 3am on occasions, and the bandwidth is wound back at peak times, this was a change that they made to satisfy the whingers who had heavy downloads, instead of limiting the heavy users, they now limit everybody.
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huge problems with it today - been having problems since friday but today has been horrendous.
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Sounds like your filter. They don't last long, sadly. Filters don't go wrong. They're just some passive components.
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The routers they supply suck and their 'up to 20mb!' sales line is bullshit. UP TO 20Mb/s. I'm on TalkTalk too, here's my router stats: Statistics Downstream Upstream Line Rate 17256 Kbps 561 Kbps Noise Margin 3.6 dB 11.5 dB Line Attenuation 27.5 dB 11.6 dB 2.5km from the exchange. Rock solid connection, stays up for weeks at a time. But then I know how to configure the kit properly.
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Tell me genius, how do you configure a pre-built non-flashable sky router which you can't change because sky won't give out user and passwords to their clients accounts? You plug it in and press go, there's nothing else to config on the box. So that said, all things being equal, I should be riding that 20mb line, correct? GTFO
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Its says "upto"....
Its mainly down to transmission speeds. If you have a good connection to your ISP and noone else is using that connection, you should get close, if its busy you are going to get less.
In theory you could get 20mb/s, but in reality, you get "upto" 20mb/s
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Uh huh, which I'm well aware of. I've worked with exchanges and LLU lines professionally. Like I said, their spin is bullshit and their call center monkeys don't know anything about anything that isn't written in their scripts. Didn't mean to turn it into an argument, the guy asked how sky was and I gave my opinion.
It's not like there isn't hundreds of papers about ISP's claiming 'up to 20mb speeds!' that turn out to be false.
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We do actually get a lot of calls for the Smartedge routers that Talk Talk use, but they also have a fair amount of redundancy built in to their network. Transmission speed is always a grey area, as its very dependant of where you live. IMO a reliable ISP is more important (as well as their cost and the deal you can get), though all suppliers have a lot of redundancy, and ISP issues are quite often down to imtermittant board failures in the routers. Any ISP problems are usually short lived, fustrating as it may be at the time
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