Steve
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We were looking forward to trying the Real China and we still might, I applaud the statement on here providing the pubic with information on what went wrong. The fact that it should never have got that far is a whole other debate.
My only concern now is apart for a few good examples most of the ‘other’ Real China’s in the chain also have very poor scores…
Food Standards Agency – Search for food hygiene ratingsFinally had mine installed today, while I know the speeds will go up and down during the ‘training’ period, much happier for now anyway…..
ADSL2
FTTC Infinity 2
So it was an accident caused by speed then? Not Dangerous driving, drink driving, mobile phone use, driver error…. but speed?
Recently Wrexham.com updated the story, at the end of the article it says:
“Wrexham.com asked for further information on which cabinets will not be activated, however we were told that it would be ‘really difficult’ to provide an accurate list due to issues with aligning the cabinet numbers with streets and premises.”I know someone who did have a date but now when they check their number no date for FTTC appears. Also you can see what cabinet you are on from a link in post 44 of this thread, i’m on P63 as confirmed by Openreach and if there was a list that said Cab63 – Power Supply Issue – Due to be resolved 15th Jan 2013 as an example then this would be very useful. (while the link from post 44 and the information may not be 100% accurate at least most people would have an idea what was going on)
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“96 per cent of Welsh homes and businesses will have access to world class broadband speeds of up to 80Mbps by the end of 2015”There it is again up to 80Mbps, so by the end of 2015 96% of welsh homes will have speeds between 10 and 50Mbps with a few getting to 80Mbps and some still stuck in the dark ages, while the rest of the world has moved on with 300MBps / 1GBps Fibre to the premises.
Before someone says, how much speed do you need? It was not that many years ago when a new PC came fully loaded with 256Mb or RAM and a 60MB hard drive! Try and edit a 10+Mega pixel image in Photoshop on that PC now!
@jamie-jbit 2893 wrote:
Just joined to say, the BT site may not lie, but I personally have trouble with any large company that doesn’t do things like check spelling. Fibre will defiantly be in our area, indeed, it definitely make me act defiantly towards BT if its not here soon.
Will give them a ring today as it seems to change on who you speak to, as usual, a farce, or should that be fierce?
Think some people missed the ‘joke’ that the screen grab was modified, including the spelling mistake by me!
Several lines of text were added by me, the point being the BT checker just keeps on changing install dates! It says I can get between 1.5Mb and 5.5Mb now where in reality I only get 2.0Mb on a very good day.I have been connected to the internet since the days of AOL and Compuserve, and had Broardband as soon as it was available (days of the green frog!). It is always a struggle working from home in Rhostyllen as I believe the phones lies were damaged many years ago and a coper section of cable was replaced my an aluminium section so the Rhostyllen internet speeds have always been slow.
If I manage to get 2Mb I have been very lucky, here are some results over the last few years:-
Trying to upload image files for clients or download software updates is always slow!
I was over the moon when I found out I would be getting FTTC in 2012, when the date was moved to December 2012 I sent a mail to Openreach as the boxes had been installed but I could not sign up, this was the reply:-
Dear Mr Roberts,
Thank you for your enquiry. You are connected to the Wrexham Exchange, cabinet 63.
Our systems indicate that we are currently experiencing slight engineering problems with the deployment of your cabinet. However, we are hopeful that the cabinet will go live to accept orders towards the end of January 2013.
Now the BT site is showing March 2013 as a sign up date!!!!
This is becoming a JOKE!
