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virginmedia.com emails
Hi for the past 4wks I’ve contacted VM technical team which I must add is a complete headache trying to get through as when you ring up it just sends you on a loop to the point where you want to throw your phone against the wall in frustration!! After eventually getting through to someone all you get is “a ticket has been raised and someone will get back your with 3-5days” and guess what !! Nobody does !! today I spent just over 2hrs on the phone trying to keep calm, I spoke to someone from technical, then they put me through to someone who tried to sort my emails out remotely and failed, then I was told it was a password issue so sent back to technical and guess what ? They have once again promised that someone will get in touch with me in 3-5 days !!! All I want is access to my virginmedia.com emails that I have had for years. Is it really that difficult to sort out ? StuartWhat we're watching now...Continuing
The thread 'what are you watching now' was locked due to it's size and the thread continuing it by the moderator, was amalgamated and also locked.❓ to access the old thread which is now read only Original What are you watching now thread So this is a new thread with a slightly different Tittle.... Continuing.... Planet X appears to be hidden behind the Sun in our Solar System What Made Spartans So Much Better At Fighting INSANE AI Video Generator you can use NOW! I Got Early Access to Suno's New AI Tool - Here's what I Did With It! Udio's New Feature is a Gamechanger for AI Music
Problems with forum
I have had problems accessing the forum over the last two days; I find myself now able to access posts. My ID stated that I "didn't exist", nor could I access anything on the forum. I went surfing the forum in circles, Under the settings section there are 12 different IP addresses (some internal beginning with 10, others with 81, 82 and one 193). This leads me to think (ask) of the following: has the forum been hacked? is there a data breach? have I done something wrong or posted stuff that is objectionable? (as mentioned elsewhere) a bug with CloudFlare (as I get the occasional 502 bad gateway error)? is it bugs or errors in the forum software? is it a Windows problem? am I being stupid? all/none of the above. If it were bugs or errors in the software, I presume they have now been fixed as I can now make posts again. Any comments, help etc are welcome. Cheers.Comment on Windows 11 your experience
So much talk about Windows 11, I thought I'd give it a try and see what all the fuss was about. It took just over an hour to make the changes. I had to download an updated bios for my motherboard, which made the necessary adjustments without having to go into the bios sections and manually adjust items, and you have to do that first or the bios won't pass the inspection and the Windows 11 won't install. So I got it up and running. Now checking it out, after clicking on the Windows Icon in the taskbar Installed software wasn't showing anymore and no tiles on the desktop, luckily I had made shortcuts for the most used software in Windows 10, so they were showing on the desktop and taskbar after the installation. I found it difficult to navigate around after being used to Windows 10, and a lot of the useful menu items were missing on right-click on an icon. The transparency effects no longer worked either. I missed the weather and speedtest on tiles and the current temperature and state of weather on the taskbar. I played around with Windows 11 for a few hours before deciding to switch back to Windows 10 😃 The only good thing that I found about it was that it seemed quicker when using Windows explorer. So if you've tried it or are using it, what are your views on it?Most common method to watch TV these days?
Hello VM community, What is the most common method people are using to watch TV these days? I am coming to the end of contract and they are offering the usual 'Mix it TV (basic Freeview style channels), weekend landline Chatter - which, as a family, we never use and the landline-phone only very rarely rings out! - and, of course, the internet WiFi. However, I was wondering are most people these days simply using the internet to watch TV, with the Freely app or some such method (iPlayer, ITVX etc)? Would I be wise to keep the TV option with VM or ditch it and try and get the bigger M350/ 500, or does it no longer really matter? Thanks.Super hub 1 vs hub 5 latency
So the words be careful what you wish for comes to mind but I would of needed to roll over with a hub 5 at some point in any case still happy. This was my super hub 1 BQM This is my hub 5 BQM Does it course any problems in gaming you might ask? No mainly as long as the minimum and maximum are not that far apart there be no problem. That said more average jitter on the hub 5 which my super hub 1 some times does but unsure why and its not caused by uploading or downloading at the time but that does cause it to happen but not in this case. Super hub 1 average change Also a 3ms~ RTT to 192.168.100.1 on hub 5 vs 1ms on super hub 1 hmm odd which seems to add to the minimum latency in BQM on the upstream which might be due to the hub 5 QoS/BWM when rate limiting. Pinging 192.168.100.1 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 192.168.100.1: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.100.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.100.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.100.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64 Ping statistics for 192.168.100.1: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 3ms, Maximum = 4ms, Average = 3ms The question is does this thick blue average a setting on the hubs or Docsis upstream method to cause it? And is it better to look worse then look better to be worse?Heads Up! Microsoft Account bricked my sister's laptop
My sister put Microsoft Account (MA) on her computer and hasn't been able to log in to her laptop, due to it failing. I asked her (wrongly) to delete the account; and to be fair she did. However, that didn't make the inability to log in go away, and I created a new account for her. After several hours of faffing about, I ended up in an infinite boot loop, where I would log in to MA and it would continuously kick me out with no access to the single desktop administrator account I created for her previously. I told her NOT to put MA on the account; but there were no problems until a couple of days ago. Being a helpful sort usually, this caused me to lose it (almost) completely, (lots of cursing and shouting), mainly directed at Microsoft. MA broke, repeatedly asking me to create a PIN, to which there were two options: retry or skip for now. As it was broken this is where the aforementioned boot loop began; the pop up box said "We can't do this right now" or whatever. Retry just went round and round, and skipping would just log me out. Looking around on the internet suggested a reinstall of Windows 10, which took 6 hours. The worrying part of this is now that this is part of reinstalling Windows 10/11. You have to create a Microsoft Account even though it serves no purpose whatsoever. I created a local account without the MA access, and have told me sister under no circumstances link it to MA. I understand that this is set to be compulsory with W11 that you have to log in to MA to access your computer. This kills any idea of me buying a new computer. AI kills it even more. Why should I have to log into a computer 5000 miles away to get the laptop in front of me to work? There's no tangible benefit in doing so. I would urge anyone to create a separate local administrator account without MA access so you can avoid trashing your data/install like I had to. There is a happy ending though; the laptop now boots up as it should, and there is no MA involved. Windows Update, though, is another story... If you've made it this far, thanks for reading.
