[Merged] 8Mb ADSL

[zitianaki]

wow thats the first ive had of bad services like that. they send you a email with a tracking system u enter details and shwos u where the router/modem is mine got to me after the 10th working day hope u have better luck today. hopefully the services will make up for the bad start you had

Originally Posted by zitianaki

wow thats the first ive had of bad services like that. they send you a email with a tracking system u enter details and shwos u where the router/modem is mine got to me after the 10th working day hope u have better luck today. hopefully the services will make up for the bad start you had

was told it would be here before my line was activated,alledgedly my line was activated yesterday.No one answers the cs phone line im sure they would leave me on a loop infinately if i let them,I will be demanding compansation for this,As the modem is not here and they have had no signature I am seriously contemplating telling them to stuff it,the only problem then will be getting a mac release so i can look elsewhere

[zitianaki]

your order went in 28th April ( if your previous post was correct, when you said you will be ordering tomorrow), 10 working days from then is the 12th May shouldent expect it so soon after its sent out weekends dont count dont forget,... still early for u to be getting the modem... If you dont get it at thursday ill be suprized but before then i doubt it, mine took 10 working days exactly on the 10th day there is was felt like forever at the time but before i knew it i was on ukonline, though i dident like the fact for mirc users it messes up dcc sends, i just used port fowarding for that. dunno if u use mirc or ever use dcc sending, i rarely use it but nice to know it works

my line was also enabled before the modem got to me

They have basically messed up my order,I had email saying all ready on the 5th,there system said 10th modem was posted on friday instead of the 3rd like my confirmation stated,line was ment to be on by 7.30 pm friday,tried a adsl modem today(I know it might just not work) but didnt get a sync.So god knows

[zitianaki]

I would wait until thursday they do say 10 working days from when you place the order before i got mine i did checks and it said it was activated and that was next day from when i had orderd it .

Your router should arrive between 7 - 10 working days, if for some reason you haven't received your router after 10 days, please contact customer services on 0845 333 3322.

thats what i got after i signed up

yeah you try calling that number if they answer ill be shocked

[zitianaki]

Cant say i tried i never needed to. but earliest you would get the modem is tomorrow latest thursday. Before u know if ull be surfing ur 8MBit, im intrested to see how fast you get from 2.7/8km away from the exchange my cousin is 3km away from exchange he might get it but isent sure its worth it. thing i find weird is how do ukonline give a crap upload yet freedom2surf going with easynet are giving a 786kbit upload. if they have a good price and decent/no cap with full 8Mbit ill move to them

Finally got it sorted pulling down a good solid 6.5 meg constant so happy with that
Only problem is news.virgin.net will not allow me to connect,ukonline are not blocking port 119 and it worked fine before

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

Finally got it sorted pulling down a good solid 6.5 meg constant so happy with that
Only problem is news.virgin.net will not allow me to connect,ukonline are not blocking port 119 and it worked fine before

Probably blocked at Virgins end

[Neil]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

Finally got it sorted pulling down a good solid 6.5 meg constant so happy with that
Only problem is news.virgin.net will not allow me to connect,ukonline are not blocking port 119 and it worked fine before

Worked fine from where-your ntl connection?

That's proabably becuase ntl supply Virgin's backbone, so hence ntl customers are 'allowed' in, whereas UKOnline ones probably aren't.

Originally Posted by Bifta

Probably blocked at Virgins end

Originally Posted by Neil

Worked fine form where-your ntl connection?

That's proabably becuase ntl supply Virgin's backbone, so hence ntl customers are 'allowed' in, whereas UKOnline ones probably aren't.

Any way round it? I may just keep ntl 1 meg just for small newsgroups

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

Any way round it? I may just keep ntl 1 meg just for small newsgroups

Why would you pay for a 1 meg connection just to get access to crap newsgroups when you could pay 6 quid a month for premium newsgroup access via easynews?

I have actually been with easynews for a couple of years,was using it to find easy fills for things pulled off the free server,guess I am just being tight and should just roll my account over more per month
I am gonna keep the 1 meg on for a couple of months while I make sure Im happy with ukonline so I will make sure I download the 3 gig off it

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

I have actually been with easynews for a couple of years,was using it to find easy fills for things pulled off the free server,guess I am just being tight and should just roll my account over more per month

So why would you want to pay a monthly subscription for a 1 meg connection to access newsgroups with far worse completion rates?

Originally Posted by Bifta

So why would you want to pay a monthly subscription for a 1 meg connection to access newsgroups with far worse completion rates?

Some of the groups on the virgin server do carry some good binaries (not gonna mention groups)and of course there free,I was just about pulling my full 3meg using newsbin pro with the free server,The easynews par viewer always makes it easy to find fills on easynews,so the 2 together was working well for me