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I had TT at my door last week. He said i should not be paying for broadband and wanted to come in and chech my line to make sure i qualify. Thats the third time they have been here wanting to check my line. I dont do business with anyone who calls at my door on spec so they failed again.
I am not sure why they need to check my line. Its works ok. I do not trust them.
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TT and me are forever finished once I get a phone line that works though I doubt it will be before I return to sea!
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You should get one of those blue stickers Malcolm that say you do not wish to do business at your doorstep or something along that line.
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Hi all yes I am sort of kicking myself with a very large size 9..... A while ago I thought about leaving Virgin and joining another ISP Hey did this the other week  Went with TalkTalk, car phone warehouse, best buy (call them what you want)
Did you not investigate them then? e.g. type "TalkTalk problems" into your search engine?
“Thinkbroad.com” has a forum section “ISP Unhappiness” - have a look there and go back to “Threads active in the last 2 weeks” for some user comments!
But I know people with them - and they’re very satisfied . . .
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Did do lots of 'talking' to their customers and also looked at various comments about them most gave the impression they would be OK.
I may just be one of the unlucky ones who gets shafted by a company with no care (personal opinion there)
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malcolm he may been after the number at back of your hub be careful.......i heard about this with tt many times exactly what you are talking of richard
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I have been with talk,talk for about three years my bill with them aprox. £25.00 per month includinng phone calls evening & weekends free including Australia. my bills were halved when I changed from BT. BT ring me up two or three times a week, they should be taxed for every call they make to me.
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my friend has vigin she happy with it.in ilford they had ntl which i think virgin took over.they were good...i bt would like to change but the hassle people as you have richard puts me off.
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NTL bought out Virgin Mobile, and then changed their own name to Virgin Media as the name Virgin has a better reputation than NTL ever did. All that has happened is that the old lazy incompetent NTL tech support now answer the phones as Virgin Media tech support.
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yes that what happened in ilford
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Was virgin then went to talk talk but now going to 
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Nikkai, how are your talktalk speeds compared to what your virgin were?
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TT speed is around the 97 DL and 56 UL
It all depends on when I run a test and the old Virgin was very quick after 12.00 hrs but dead slow between the hours of 4 to eight I put that down to the schoolies getting on line after class.
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Just done a test and
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I'm not sure what you mean by 97 & 56? My current connected speeds are 1984 kbps (down) and 406 kbps (up)
Just seen your 6pm post. You are fairly close to me so they are not good.
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also just noticed that there are no 0 on my first post 970 and 560
must read through first before posting
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Funny but since I told TT that I am terminating the contract the BB is dropping out ?
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Mine says 6992kbps download and 660kbps upload is that goopd or bad
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I know you live somewhere near Rainbow, CC. Nikkai. When I was coming home from work yesterday lunchtime, BT Openreach were doing some work on on the underground cables along Ashburnham way on the opposite side to Rainbow. Could have something to do with it.
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Mine says 6992kbps download and 660kbps upload is that goopd or bad
Swap you, FC?
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Swap you, FC?
Me too.... I get 1400 d/l and 300 u/l
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Oh-er I'm the winner, thats exciting, never win anything, but now I ve won the BB race
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I did my friend just enjoy a bit of teasing
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Couple of days ago (8th) I got 8.36Mb/s (see below!) - a “one off” I think! Ran it again and it was 5.64 - mine averages 4.5 to 5.5Mbs.
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Oh no - I didn't want anyone to know that!
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If you want to see what speeds are being achieved near to your location - go to www.thinkbroadband.com. When the home page opens - look at top left corner and there’s a small panel: "Broadband Map”.
Click on that and when the page opens in top left corner enter your post code. Your location map opens - then - on the left-hand side - go to the third title down: “Speed Test Results” - and click on “enable”. This shows the latest results (updated daily by that site) from your area.
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So the saga continues !
I still have no land line phone but I do have Internet (quite who is the provider I am not too sure) this is due to many phone calls and more emails to the TT customer services dept's and the cancellation dep's and I did manage to get through to an English speaking woman who listened to me then put me through to another English speaking chap who after a while agreed that I had sent a notification to cancel the contract.
He then went through questions like "why did I not use the TT home phone?" and "If I had used the TT phone the call would have come direct to the service I wanted" when I said that the phone is NOT working he told me that he knew that but I could have called from the tt phone to report the fault of the engaged tone !
SO I have been onto BT and I will be one of the numbers of people their advert says have returned to them.
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Well I did return Nikkai, reluctantly, but I have been so pleased I did, everything has been smooth I get good speeds and the customers service has been very good I truely havent regretted 'returning' it is not as cheap as orange,virgin, TT but the stress is so mush less I was in tears a number of times ~(tears of anger) with orange before and thats all gone now, and its not that much dearer about £2.00 a weekIt took me over a year to make the decision to change ( I m very tolerent ) but I m glad I did
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BT cant take the line back until the 'fault' is identified by TT who are saying that as I have canceled the priority of MY case is now LOWER than the very high priority it was on which is lower than the high priority it was on before ?
I do feel a little happier now that I have had emails form BT saying that they will endeavour to put me onto the package as soon as they can, and TT have sent a "sorry your leaving, is there anything we can do to keep you" mail which I have replied to with "Sort out the line fault and never bother me again"
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I do too FC, I logged onto the TT 'my account' and it states that it is INACTIVE ?
I logged onto the BT account and it is also INACTIVE ? no bill or usage
The TT router is ON and I have Internet via that unit ? it maybe a little slow but hey ho its working but who is paying for it, I know there is going to be a price as you get nothing for nothing in this life
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