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Jul 8^th, 2008, 9:59pm

On Sunday during a storm my router pack up after a power cut.

On the phone, explaining to the poor dear that none of the lights are on, and yes the fuse is ok BlaBla de Bla, she books an engineers for Thursday to come and see for himself Grin

He turned up this morning (Tuesday) Oh the routers fried, I know, I'll get another, ok what year, I got one in the van, 10 mins later I'm back on line.

Praise where its due Virgin did the bizz this time. Cool

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Re: Virgin
Reply #1 - Jul 9^th, 2008, 6:36pm

Or...

You could always get your own Cisco router and have none of this 'hassle' Wink

It is interesting to note the frequency of them folk over at SF that are switching to iMac computers (getting fed up of MS junk). There is hope yet for the many idiots that frequent that place - iMac's and OSX are FAR, FAR superior systems than grotty Windows based junk. Roll Eyes

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Re: Virgin
Reply #2 - Jul 10^th, 2008, 8:38am

Virgin = NTL these days.

My mother just had NTL broadband installed. She wanted the computer in a different room to where the cable modem is. I was expecting to have to do the wire between the two but the installer spent hours running a wire all round under the edge of the carpet, around door frames etc. Mother was very impressed. I haven't seen what it looks like yet though.

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Re: Virgin
Reply #3 - Jul 10^th, 2008, 1:37pm

Quote:

Or...

You could always get your own Cisco router and have none of this 'hassle' Wink

It is interesting to note the frequency of them folk over at SF that are switching to iMac computers (getting fed up of MS junk). There is hope yet for the many idiots that frequent that place - iMac's and OSX are FAR, FAR superior systems than grotty Windows based junk. Roll Eyes

Lights blue touchpaper and retires Grin

Couldn't agree more with you. Have you checked out the refurb store? I'm drooling over a MacPro multi-processor megamemory reduced from over £4k to around £1500. Just need to convince SWMBO that she needs to buy it for me her business.

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Would all Third Party Apologists kindly mind their own business .....

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Re: Virgin
Reply #4 - Jul 10^th, 2008, 5:26pm

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My mother just had NTL broadband installed. She wanted the computer in a different room to where the cable modem is. I was expecting to have to do the wire between the two but the installer spent hours running a wire all round under the edge of the carpet, around door frames etc. Mother was very impressed. I haven't seen what it looks like yet though.

CW,

He must have been ex Telecom :-D :-D :-D

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Re: Virgin
Reply #5 - Jul 19^th, 2008, 2:38pm

thescruff wrote on Jul 8^th, 2008, 9:59pm:

He turned up this morning (Tuesday) Oh the routers fried, I know, I'll get another, ok what year, I got one in the van, 10 mins later I'm back on line.

Beleive it or not the people who run theese companies are not idiots, the last thing they want to do is have to send out an engineer twice just because something needs replacing.

Kind of annoying that when they replaced my cable box they gave me one with old firmware that wouldn't pick up any channels though (they updated it remotely but it was still annoying as it meant a call to thier horrible phone system).

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Re: Virgin
Reply #6 - Jul 28^th, 2008, 8:18pm

londonman wrote on Jul 10^th, 2008, 1:37pm:

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Or...

You could always get your own Cisco router and have none of this 'hassle' Wink

It is interesting to note the frequency of them folk over at SF that are switching to iMac computers (getting fed up of MS junk). There is hope yet for the many idiots that frequent that place - iMac's and OSX are FAR, FAR superior systems than grotty Windows based junk. Roll Eyes

Lights blue touchpaper and retires Grin

Couldn't agree more with you. Have you checked out the refurb store? I'm drooling over a MacPro multi-processor megamemory reduced from over £4k to around £1500. Just need to convince SWMBO that she needs to buy it for me her business.

And so am I. saving my pennies right now to upgrade my ageing but lovely iMac (none Intel Duo). A reduction from 4K down to only 1.5K is amazing thanks for that input Londonman.

PS. Just tell SWMBO that with this new Apple computer she will be able to shop in more shops than ever before Wink

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Re: Virgin
Reply #7 - Nov 7^th, 2008, 12:34am

You could just stick Linux on your old computer and it will be good as new again (not your apples by the way). I installed PCLinuxOS some time back and was amazed that my old slow PC was so quick. I was having issues with some of my hardware (my fault not Linux) so I installed Ubuntu. Really easy to use, really easy to install and set up. All the software is free, the operating system is free too, it has all your office type programs, email, internet and pretty much anyhitng else you can think of (all free!). You download a copy onto a CD, which you boot off. It gives you an idea of what it looks like and how it works, before installing it. It even gives you the option to install it alongside Windows, dual boot, for those annoying programs that don't like Linux. If you have an old laptop or old PC in the loft, get it out and give it a go, you may find it is quicker than your new PC.

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