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crazy-trousers 01-06-2004 18:26

Re: All my TV packs gone.
 
Oh sorry,was hoping for a magic sequence which would restore my packages.

Marge 01-06-2004 21:52

Re: All my TV packs gone.
 
Grrrrrrr after spending all bluddy day fixing these faults for customers I come home to find mines off and no amount of rebooting and card in-and-outing will bring them back on :rofl:

MovedGoalPosts 02-06-2004 00:01

Re: All my TV packs gone.
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Debsy42
Grrrrrrr after spending all bluddy day fixing these faults for customers I come home to find mines off and no amount of rebooting and card in-and-outing will bring them back on :rofl:

Oh dear, if ntl staff can't sort out their own faults, what hope is there for the rest of us mere mortals :erm: :D :disturbd:

Marge 02-06-2004 00:16

Re: All my TV packs gone.
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by MovedGoalPosts
Oh dear, if ntl staff can't sort out their own faults, what hope is there for the rest of us mere mortals :erm: :D :disturbd:

i can't sort my own fault out lol, have to get someone else to do it for me

totally fed up, no kerrang channel, can't cope :mis:

Vegeta 05-06-2004 15:26

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Anyone got their channels back yet?

Its been almost a week :mad: :mad: :mad:

Proppinupthebar 05-06-2004 15:37

Re: All my TV packs gone.
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Vegeta
Anyone got their channels back yet?

Its been almost a week :mad: :mad: :mad:

If you are still missing channels then phone CS. They will have to send a refresh to your card.

Vegeta 05-06-2004 17:44

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Proppinupthebar
If you are still missing channels then phone CS. They will have to send a refresh to your card.

Yes I called them again today, this is the 4th time in 5 days, finally all channels are back and working fine.

About time too :mad: :td: :o

arcamalpha2004 05-06-2004 19:09

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Seems to be the second weekend on a run now that this has happened to customers, and NTL staff...;) ......What is going on?

Must be a wonder of the world to add to the other seven, because apparantly, nobody knows why people are losing their channels, all customers are told is "reboot your box".
One thing for sure though, there will not be a gap in your bill for the month, to take account of the time you have not had tv services you're paying NTL good money for.
Something very wrong I think.

ntlrocks 05-06-2004 20:56

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well a simple reboot shouldnt deserve for a customer to recieve a refund?.....no service is fault free any where....keep your box well ventilated on all sides.

MovedGoalPosts 05-06-2004 21:37

Re: All my TV packs gone.
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by ntlrocks
well a simple reboot shouldnt deserve for a customer to recieve a refund?.....no service is fault free any where....keep your box well ventilated on all sides.

:rant: Problem is that a simple reboot is insufficient:
1) Pull the plug and switch back on (you havent tried to get behind my TV/STB/DVD/VCR/XBox/Router to know how much of a task that is fighting past the spaghetti) - zilch on the subscribed channels
2) Pull the plug, pull the STB card and wipe it, reinsert and switch on - still naff all
3) So phone CS,. Great, exercise that digit for the press xyz options 20 times and go on hold for ## minutes to repeat 2 because they don't beleieve that you have done it already then do 2 again at thier insistence BUT adding a read out the card number to CS in the process (why don't they have this and my ntl home phone number logged on their systems)

So this is not a simple reboot issue. It's an ntl messing up the system issue. That's deserving of a credit for anyone who has service out for more than a minimal time :rant:

paulyoung666 05-06-2004 21:38

Re: All my TV packs gone.
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by MovedGoalPosts
:rant: Problem is that a simple reboot is insufficient:
1) Pull the plug and switch back on (you havent tried to get behind my TV/STB/DVD/VCR/XBox/Router to know how much of a task that is fighting past the spaghetti) - zilch on the subscribed channels
2) Pull the plug, pull the STB card and wipe it, reinsert and switch on - still naff all
3) So phone CS,. Great, exercise that digit for the press xyz options 20 times and go on hold for ## minutes to repeat 2 because they don't beleieve that you have done it already then do 2 again at thier insistence BUT adding a read out the card number to CS in the process (why don't they have this and my ntl home phone number logged on their systems)

So this is not a simple reboot issue. It's an ntl messing up the system issue. That's deserving of a credit for anyone who has service out for more than a minimal time :rant:




finished :D :D :D :D :D

MovedGoalPosts 05-06-2004 23:23

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Quote:

Originally Posted by paulyoung666
finished :D :D :D :D :D

oops: sorry if the previous post seemed a bit over the top. Maybe too many :beer: resulted in my being a tad :drunk: and loosing my usual restraint :blush: now off to have a hangover :Sprint:

McYorkie 06-06-2004 16:15

Re: All my TV packs gone.
 
:erm: We too have fallen into the same boat of losing channels. we have two digiboxes and on one of them we have varied between having just 1 to 5 and nothing else, and then alternating with seeing just the base pack channels since last Sunday evening. Our other box upstairs is behaving normally with all channels we are subscribed to displaying properly.

The usual reboot - wipe card - power cycle "self help" fixes have been tried to no avail umpteen times this week, as has telephoning CS twice, end result is that we still have one very dodgy digibox with majority of channels missing.

I did read over on DS in a similar thread that there was an "area fault" - but surely it wouldn't take days/weeks to fix?
Anyone got any suggestions as to what we can try before asking for an engineer?

spiderplant 06-06-2004 18:10

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Quote:

Originally Posted by McYorkie
Anyone got any suggestions as to what we can try before asking for an engineer?

Nothing. You'll need to ring ntl to get your full set of channels restored.

McYorkie 15-06-2004 14:45

Re: All my TV packs gone.
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by spiderplant
Nothing. You'll need to ring ntl to get your full set of channels restored.

:angel: Thanks Spiderplant, duly rung ntl: and box rehit by CS, but also engineer booked to check everything ok, and he called last Wednesday. Explained problems with box, and his words were along the lines of that the box was heading for pace heaven, as it was one of the oldest Pace 1000A's that had been installed.

He also checked our other box and it was also a 1000A, and so we are now the owners of two newer boxes, a Pace 2000 and a 4000-N.

End result is that everythings ok now, and even interactive is faster.

Thanks to ntl: for a good job done.:D

P.s. sorry its taken this long to update - but I don't get that many days off during the week so postings usually few and far between!!!!


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