There is also linesman’s “Ome’s Law” (not Ohm’s) ‘omes law is an early dart on Friday. Lines faulted on Thursday, picked up and fixed quickly on Friday then off ‘ome (they faulted it so know what they are) or they’re left til the Monday+
Hence the higher than normal dropouts over a weekend. Of course, this was a practice of the bad old days and you can be assured never happens anymore, honest guv’.

Speeds, throttling and prices are via LLU providers. Fibre is fibre – there isn’t cooncil fibre that’s slower and cheaper and sexy superfast fibre that’s dearer. That pish is usually VDSL over copper not fibre (kiddy oan fibre – how they get away with selling it as ‘Standard Fibre’ is beyond me)

Always have a cheap WiFi box handy to stick a 4g Sim card in and tether for emergencies. Though that gets spendy when you are 3 months with no internet (yup seriously)
Thank you Openreach, top class service there. It’s the new generation of ‘Paddington’ engineering. “They gave it a very hard stare, but it’s still not working. They looked at it very hard and they monitored it very hard for weeks, nothing happened” I do wish they’d give telekinesis a bye.

Generally, if you have a fibre fault it’s a dodgy port on the Dslam card. It’s a skoosh to fix but… a new card must be procured first. From central procurement (weeks+) In another life I used to buy kit on my credit card and bang extra hours on the timesheet to cover it (Sometimes ‘Ome’s’ law may have to be invoked for the extra hours)
If you can’t get fibre etc because the cabinet is over capacity, a bigger cabinet needs installed (a year+ if ever) To get round that they will just string you along & wait for a port to free up (or *ahem free one up) and lift you on to it and the next bugger has the issue.

To be honest fibre isn’t a priority all the R&D money is trying to squeeze more speed out of twisted pair copper to meet targets. All the money given to them was blown on TV channels before BT were forced to spit Openreach off seperately.
Rant over.

there’s a big white elephant on the south coast of England lol.

Good to see a plug for the Phone Co-op (now the Co-operative Phone and Broadband, officially) – I’ve been with them ever since I got internet access (dial-up initially, now broadband).

They’re not the cheapest, but were recommended by Ethical Consumer. I do occasionally have to complain, but their customer service is pretty good. They even give me a dividend of a few pence a year because I bought a few shares to co-operate properly.

I no longer view myself as living in the ‘UK’, I live in Scotland. They will not take our people into this horrific future…willingly.

rofpmsl

“Ordinary South British don’t realise the importance of Scotland, with its oil and exports, to their economic wellbeing. All kept quiet because no one wants to admit this to Scotland itself.”

Your exchange made me think about the powerful influences at play when the media (newspapers and TV) frame things in particular ways over a prolonged period.

In my view, its evident that the dominance of a Eurosceptic message – including the (unwarranted) ridiculing of many EU regulations and the blaming of EU ‘migrants’ for UK Government economic and social policy failures – that came from many UK newspapers, plus the profile given by the BBC to UKIP, all over a prolonged period, had a significant influence on framing UK public debate over many years leading up to the EU Ref.

From the denial of Scotland’s energy and other assets (e.g. McCrone, renewables, exports … even Scotland’s size!), to referring to us as ‘subsidy junkies’ with an ungrateful ‘grievance culture’ etc. mean many people in England may well now have a negative view of Scotland – all derived from messages given out by the British/English media, coupled to bias by omission.

These are notable examples of the opinion-forming/prejudice-forming power of the media.

My point? If similar powerful approaches to those that have influenced public opinion in England are constantly at work within Scotland specifically against the case for independence and for Britishness, then we do indeed have a major challenge.

At the very least, this may dampen down momentum in favour of Indy in the polls, at least until there is a new national campaign.

Zen internet. But don’t tell Which I told you 🙂

And they did not include The Phone Coop which is my favourite!