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Toob In Pompey
Hi, anybody switched to toob in Pompey? Are they any good? They've just done our street, now I'm getting bombarded with offers - 900 Mbps £25 I'm out of contract and VM renewal offer for similar speed looks like the national debt of a small country in comparison! So it looks like after 20+ years, I'm gonna jump ship to the QEtoob if they're any good. So if you're in Pompey on toob let me know what they're like, Cheers.What 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
A theory as to why VM does not have modem mode on hub 5x
Its possible from what I can make out that in some areas the XGS-PON needs a tag which is a set number or is untagged so you might be thinking how does the hub know? And it doesn't so in router mode it sends two DHCP out one with a tag the other untag and then it knows what to do with the rest of the traffic. So that the problem you enable modem mode but the hub does not know if it should tag your outgoing traffic or not now if it was a tag if you had a switch to tag out to the hub then problem then is do the ports on the hub accept tag packets? Because in router mode the ports on the hub accept untag then the internal WAN can tag them or not out. In which VM have screwed us due to the hub 5x hardware and network setup for modem mode with this hub which only
Cannot connect Galaxy phone or Tv to WiFI
I have been having problems with HUB 3 for over three weeks, at one stage I though the fault was with my computer but not so I had it checked and reset at a cost of £35, the engineer could not find any faults. I am sick and tired of this problem, my broadband is running correctly. The WiFi useless, I have tried time and time again to connect the TV and Galaxy phone to WiFI but cannot do so, have tried changing password etc, re- booting but nothing works. I have been with Virgin Media since day one but customer service has gone down hill as VM do no even have a call centre in the UK anymore which is ridiculous, I have hearing issues and only use a 'hard of hearing landline phone' and even have problems in using that due to sound quality. VM are quick to give new customers the best deals and up to date Hubs, mine needs to be changed but I would have to pay for the privelage. I am not prepared to do that have noticed that my bill will increase far too much when my current contract expires. I will not be renewing and make sure that I give sufficient notice when the current contract is about run out. I am not preapared to pay for a new HUB and look forward to leaving VM at end of contract unless I receive some customer service which is non existant at present. VM have checked the system and I have also checked the system which VM states is running correctly so it must be the HUB 3 which is at fault. All customers should be updated with the latest equipment. the final straw is that I would have pay £25 for an engineer to call and try to rectify the issue.Virgin media lack of communication
0800 this morning,30th, virgin media contractors blocked the end of our driveway to excavate for a cable. No advance notice communication or to let us know they were going to block our access out of our house at all. looked to communicate. Numbers all require Virgin account so trying this way next stop ofcom AppallingLeaving..Or not?
Good morning all. Mt contract ends in November. I'm currently paying a little over £31 a month for 350meg broadband. (The phone line never transpired in all this time but that's another story). Be Fibre come a knocking claiming 900 Meg for £29 a month and offering to pay the remainder of my contract. I call Virgin retentions (finally, that's a process isn't it?) who said nothing is available for me to compete with Be's offer- yet. But something might come up in October. Where should I go with this? If I wait can I guarantee a favourable deal to what I'm paying at present? U Switch currently offer 250 meg with Virgin for a penny under 24 pounds a month so there are deals out there. I should stress I'm happy to stay with Virgin. But Be Fibres offer (and Sky's) are superior. Both alternatives are full Fibre too. Any advice gratefully received. ChrisProblems 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.
Outlook Attachments ?
For some reason, a recent email sent to me with a pdf attachment arrived but the email was displaying 14 attachment boxes, 13 of which were just outlook boxes with a desciptor plus the legimate pdf attachment. Despite searching to disable ;whatever, nothing seems to help and I am stuck with this unsightly problem. Any ideas how I can prevent these unwanted outlook attachments showing up alongside the genuine attachment? To add, this is only a very recent occurence.
