<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 May 2013 10:26, alan c <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aeclist@candt.waitrose.com" target="_blank">aeclist@candt.waitrose.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 07/05/13 08:36, TT Mooney wrote:<br>
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Hi all - I've been a happy user of O2 broadband for years, but now<br>
that Murdoch has laid his hands on it, I want to change provider.<br>
Does anyone have a recommendation? I used to have BT, and they were<br>
mostly useless. There is a bit of bittorent going on, so I'm<br>
looking for an uncapped adsl2 service. Virgin Media is not<br>
available in my area. Kind regards, Travis<br>
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I was also with O2 (Be) and also was motivated to jump ship for the<br>
very same reason.<br>
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The good news was that BT fibre was already becoming<br>
established in my area - it was frustrating to see all the cabinets go<br>
in and not have a fibre related connection myself - and also that BT<br>
had then recently changed policy to make their 'unlimited' options<br>
truly unlimited - removing the restrictions on P2P activity and<br>
uploads, for example.<br>
I had been resisting choosing a fibre connection partly on principle because I think P2P is so important for the internet.<br>
The connection activity went well (sigh of relief). And it continues to be good :-)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's one thing I like about Zen: they piggy back on the BT infrastructure so as soon as Fibre was available in my area, they were offering it.<br>
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The bad news is that I am now dealing with a massive org which occasionally morphs into a dozy giant. The installer guy was well informed technically, but on contract, so he reacted like an outsider, not relating to BT in company knowledge or attitude,<br>
confirming the idea that - somewhere - I was dealing with an amorphous unknown lumbering org. I had gladly accepted a cashback (well, voucher back) deal for Sainsburys vouchers (50 pounds) and the claim registration web page had an incorrect date which would invalidate my own claim, which caused me anxiety. I got some reassurance from the live chat help - I noticed this at pre sales time - but verbal<br>
reassurance was only partially comforting. Ultimately I did receive the promised vouchers, but the claim web page was STILL indicating invalid dates.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's the other thing I like about Zen: small company and support know what they're talking about.<br>
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Email accounts have been a pita.<br>
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BT makes use of Yahoo mail, and I found that to use (BTYahoo) as SMPT server<br>
for my various outgoings I had to configure my BTYahoo settings to<br>
accept each email ID separately. I have a number of email IDs. Presumably because Yahoo see my mail initially, as alien. It does work, though, albeit an inconvenient<br>
hassle.<br>
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The other day, I got an email from BT about the possible closure of my<br>
BTYahoo mail account. This was an offer that I could hardly ignore,<br>
nor even refuse. But unfortunately I did not even understand it. My<br>
contact to them yielded an explanation which I also did not fully<br>
understand. My BT fibre connection username is allocated to be the<br>
same as my BTYahoo email address, so I was confused that if I was one<br>
of those who chose to allow closure from non use of the BTYahoo email<br>
account, then I wondered what would happen to my connection username.<br>
I have since concluded for myself that in such a case, the username continues as an ID<br>
but even though it appears to be a real email address, it of course will not be. Such is the disconnect in an ISP which puts its email facility out to others. In my case because I make frequent use of the BTYahoo account to route my outgoing mail, I conclude I will not be seen as a non user of the BTYahoo account.......<br>
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Incidentally, I was connected with two boxes, not just one. A BT<br>
modem, presumably related to fibre, and a wireless router (BT Home<br>
Hub), whereas previously with adsl I had a single combined, modem<br>
router.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, I have the same: the router is the old one I had with ADSL, they just added a fibre modem (white box) in front of it and connected the router using PPPoE via the modem rather than PPPoA direct to the phone line. Actually, that's yet another thing I like about Zen: when I ordered my ADSL with them 2 years ago, they suggested a few models of routers I could use other than the one they supply and explained what features I needed to look for in order to be able to upgrade to fibre later without changing the router. And when upgrade time came, they asked what model I had, pulled out the spec sheet for that model and guided me through the re-configuration (which wasn't hard to be honest).<br>
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For some reason, not sure what, I find that the BT router does not<br>
easily connect to new wireless devices (Android tablet, phones)<br>
although ok eventually. So far I have found that a router restart<br>
(has a button) does help.<br>
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Oh, yes, as a Post Script:<br>
I registered with the BT forums support community - to try to better undertsand the promise of email account closure from 'non use'. I had some ROFL because - I used my real name (alan cocks), it was impossible because my surname got the response<br>
'Bad word, please clean this up and try again'<br>
What a way to treat a long and illustrious family name so well known<br>
for its chickens business?<br>
;-)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Good old profanity filter! :-)<br><br></div><div>Bruno</div></div></div></div>