Three 4G better through a VPN

[Dave Rice]

It got so bad I moved the network back to TalkTalk. Others I know of on Three are OK so I suspect it’s a local problem. The way they’ve done the sectors here puts most of the residences on the same antenna.

Openreach have been swarming around the estate for weeks, no idea what they’re up to but the visited every manhole at some time or another. But my FTTC connection has been solid for over 9 days now, unheard of before, so whatever it was has worked. I hope it’s getting ready for FTTP.

Makes me laugh looking at the BT avaiabilty site, apparently 36Mbps is only good enough for “Everyday browsing and streaming on one or two devices at once”. I’ve heard this bollocks from Virgin too.

[PlaneMan]

Dave, Openreach were on my estate just over a week ago, same story as you. In every knook and crannie.

I came home one day to find them poking around in my front garden. Told them to bugger off post haste. They claimed they had permission and they were performing critical upgrades to my service.

I called the local PCSO as I couldn’t get into my house as they wouldn’t move. She was here within minutes and told them in very plain language to move immediately.   I now have a formal complaint with the police against them as do some other residents as their vans were blocking driveways and so on.  They literally thought they could do what they wanted.

They were allegedly doing fibre to the premises upgrades, my house hasn’t had any kind of land line for over 20 years and as far as I’m aware, never a BT one.

 

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