Three weeks today

**GeorgeB** · 23 January 2012, 10:41

Originally posted by Cliphead View Post

Still no phone or internet and no update from BT.

I would honestly go insane

What about tethering 3G via your smart phone?

**Cliphead** · 23 January 2012, 10:44

Originally posted by GeorgeB View Post

I would honestly go insane

What about tethering 3G via your smart phone?

Already done and bought a 3G dongle as a backup. At least I can sort of work.

I started a contract with the new ClientCo the day I lost the connection and they are less than impressed to say the least. Working from home has its advantages but BT do their best to fck it up.

**MarillionFan** · 23 January 2012, 10:45

Originally posted by Cliphead View Post

Still no phone or internet and no update from BT.

I wondered why your posting quality had increased.

**Cliphead** · 23 January 2012, 10:46

Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post

I wondered why your posting quality had increased.

I have better things to do with my bandwidth.

**GeorgeB** · 23 January 2012, 10:47

Oh, another thought is sitting in Starbucks all day, they should have a normal broadband connection.

May not be too good for conf calls tho

**BrilloPad** · 23 January 2012, 10:48

Where do you live? Have you tried calling BT?

**Cliphead** · 23 January 2012, 10:49

Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post

Where do you live? Have you tried calling BT?

Have you ever tried calling BT?

**ChimpMaster** · 23 January 2012, 11:27

You might remember my rant about BT a few days ago. I went mental over the outage I had - 5 days without internet was seriously getting me wound me.

What got to me more was having to speak to their offshore call centre, whom I called every day, each time having to run through the damned script. One of the guys there asked me if I saw the "blue power light on" - to which I replied Yes - to which he then responding by asking if the plug was in the power socket

Anyway, the only reason it got solved (after 5 days) is that I kept chasing and also complained in writing through their website. These complaints got me a response from the UK technical support teams, and they explained a lot better and faster and had the capability to help sort it out.

All it needed was a reboot of something or other at the exchange. Getting someone to do it was the hard bit.

**Joeman** · 23 January 2012, 11:43

can you join a load of 3G dongles together to increase bandwidth?? stick one in every spare USB portand see if it works!!

(never tried this, would it work??)

Three weeks today