Oops, forgot to update this old thread
Ok, broadband was in.............well here's what I posted on bulldoghell.co.uk
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I will admit, after reading the sheer number of complaints, I was hesitant to signup for Bulldog, but with the internet being free for the first 3 months and Bulldog being the only ISP who did 8mb in my area, I signed up
First impressions were rather good
I got my confirmation email, installation date included and my future phone number
We had about 3/4 follow up calls asking if the date was ok, which I told them several times, it was, but still we got calls
Engineer arrived at 9am in the morning, spent about 2 hours here, ripping out the old line and doing something with the telephone tower outside
He said he had to go work at the exchange and would be back
6pm, no engineer, no phone call, no phone line and no broadband........gah
Got my mother to call them to find out what was going on, the man refused to speak to her saying "we didn't get authorisation from mr drec to speak to you, I can't help you"
So, I ended up calling via my mobile, which cost about £10!!!!
She said to wait till tomorrow because there was a delay activating some exchanges
7:30pm, my mum gets a call to tell us the broadband and phone line are now active....they weren't
20 minutes later, broadband kicks in, yay!
Phone line didn't work till the next day however
Now we're having issues with the broadband though
Every hour or so, it'll drop connection, the phones in the house will ring once, then it'll come back up in about 30 seconds
It does this repeatedly throughout the day, doh
Not to mention my new Zoom X6 wireless router/adsl modem, keeps freezing and we have to keep turning it off and back on.
Oh well
Least it's up and running....kinda
Although I noticed there's alot of noise on the phone line
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Since then, the connection hasn't dropped at ALL and has remained stable
I'd say I get about 80-90% of the speed offered, which isn't to bad imo
The modem however is a piece of......you know what, so i'm replacing it with a new MIMO type modem.