I think someone might be leaching of my WiFi

"djmt1" (djmt1)
12/21/2016 at 15:49 • Filed to: None

Or more likely a new low for BT.

DISCUSSION (14)

Wacko > djmt1
12/21/2016 at 16:05

restart your modem and router, and try again.

either that or you got high speed internet from bell canada like i do

djmt1 > Wacko
12/21/2016 at 16:08

Nothing wrong with the modem, I just happen to live in the part of the UK which statistically gets the slowest speeds but even by those low standards this is something special.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > djmt1
12/21/2016 at 16:17

Observation: .03Mbps is 30Kbps. That is literally a 56K down rate. You could literally double your speed with a phone modem. On the upside (both meanings), now is apparently the time to seed all your torrents.

Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever > djmt1
12/21/2016 at 16:18

I love the advertisement for the podcast below those speeds.

“See what you’re missing! Click here to download now! You’ll be ready to listen in August!”

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > djmt1
12/21/2016 at 16:22

Log into your router and see what devices are connected. Maybe also change the password on your router.

Wacko > djmt1
12/21/2016 at 16:34

How can you even Fap at those speeds.

ScoobsMcGee > djmt1
12/21/2016 at 16:40

Honest question: Same speed when wired?

djmt1 > ScoobsMcGee
12/21/2016 at 16:41

Yup

ScoobsMcGee > djmt1
12/21/2016 at 16:43

Great googa-mooga.

Nick Has an Exocet > djmt1
12/21/2016 at 16:49

Allow me to take a moment to bitch about the UK. I’ve spent 3 or 4 months out of the last 2 years there. Specifically in Glasgow. Specifically setting up a new office and two large corporate housing facilities.

The every single time, without fail, the internet is a bitch to set up.

Things that happen every time: it takes 30 days or more to get service set up (in the case of the virgin line, 4.5 months), the pricing is erratic and looks like it was done by dropping marbles on pricing sheet, the actual connections are mostly garbage and work as well as UK plumbing**. There is also no such thing as “cable internet”. For people from the US, this is like: WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE IS NO CABLE INTERNET!? YOU HAVE CARS AND NOT CABLE? ARE YOU COMMUNIST? The UK never really rolled out cable TV because over-the-air worked fairly well. So therefore- no cable TV, no cable internet. That also means that if you want high speed, you choices are DSL (which you must be high to identify as “speed”) and fiber (which probably hasn’t rolled out to your street yet).

First time: BT says “yes, there is fiber at that address”. We call to get hooked up and they say “you wanted DSL, right?”. No, we wanted the fiber. “Oh, you see, it’s available on your street, but hasn’t been enabled on the box on your street. We can’t tell you when that will happen, but it will be a couple months.”

Second time: BT says “yes, there is fiber at that address”. We try to get hooked up and someone had cut the fiber line entering the house. It looks 6 months to get someone out to fix it. In the meantime, we had 7 people sharing a BT DSL line which dropped out every 5 to 50 minutes at random.

Third time: We installed a Virgin T1 line. That took 4.5 months. So long in fact that they waived the entire installation which required rewiring part of the building.

** As far as I can tell (from staying in 5 residences now in Scotland), there is no standard for how heat/plumbing works. In some houses, in order to take a hot shower, you have to have your heat on. In one house, you had to have the heat on (which was on a timer), and the radiators were plumbed in-line with the shower - so they had to be on as well. In another place, there were timers on both the water heater and the house heat. Neither was ever in sync. In another place, the shower it’s own water heater and it’s own shower head. Alongside it was the other shower head that you could use if you had the heat on.

Despite all of this, I love the hell out Scotland. No other place that I’ve ever been has been more inviting, had better down to earth people, and was a more comfortable place to be. Seriously, it’s weirdly magical.

djmt1 > Nick Has an Exocet
12/21/2016 at 17:07

Same down here in London. BT said fibre would be installed in late December 2013... So yeah, I think they need a waiver more than an installation fee and as for central heating. My house does indeed need for the heating to be on in order to get hot water in the taps. I can’t even trot out my usual excuse of “Britain is really fucking old” because my damn house was built only 25 years ago.

Chinny Raccoon > Nick Has an Exocet
12/21/2016 at 17:37

It took Openreach 3 months to install a Business POTS line with ADSL when I moved in to my current offices. I ran an ecommerce business over a barely 3G connection for that time...

Also they’ve ‘rolled out’ FTTP here- by which the cables have been installed and everything commissioned since August but you can’t actually place an order yet.

When you live in a house older than the USA the heating and plumbing can be challenging, although we had the luxury of starting from scratch around 20 years ago.

TheBimmerGuyWhoNowOwnsAChevy > djmt1
12/21/2016 at 19:29

An ad for the RT Podcast? You see something new everyday

V8VespaStoppie > djmt1
12/21/2016 at 20:22

Ad is very spot on, you’re the blonde in the picture and the leech is the dude on the left.