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FRUSTRATION DOESN'T COVER IT..... 5% OF NETWORK SPEED / EMAIL MERRY-GO-ROUND

IWANTBLUE
On our wavelength

Ok, I know the say don't shoot the messenger, but to say I'm Seething is understatement of the decade....

Recently updated my contract, upgraded infact Not happy that a 25year customer cant get the deal a new starter gets bet settled in exasperation on 500Meg BB, Mega TV with HD Movies and Cinema package and skysports.

First issue,I'm certain I asked that the package was HD Sports because we discussed the lack of Ultra-HD F1 channel as that would be another £7. but I can now see that the actual contract despite what we discussed on the phone verbally uses a crafty syntax of adding the skysports after the 'and' which 'apparently' separates it from the HD Movies and Cinema ??  Whilst Not at all Happy with this I'd put it down to me not studying the paperwork properly, so put it down to experience and have had to suck it up, but as the whole point of the sky sports was to watch the F1 , HD would have been acceptable(I agreed to that after all, but the SD quality is frankly embarrassing and virtually unwatchable.

So they said speeds might take a while to get close to max speeds, but the best I've had is about 125meg, but averaging between 40 and 90meg...(500meg !!!) however tonight its dropped to 20meg!!!

Teatime arrives and I realise we haven't signed in /activated Netflix so I tried to do this and was met with VM forcing me to change my email address as I have a legacy NTLWORLD email so 'quote' to prevent a situation where I might not be able to get access to my email??? I have to change the access email to a non virginmedia one ??

click on it , and then it asks me to sign in, and requests the new email address to be entered, sends a verification email... click on this and 3 times it tells me the verification code has expired, the last twice it said the verification email had expired , each time prompting me to try again , log in and select edit email etc.... 

attempt this 5 times as each time it sends a verification email, It either says link or email timed out...

 

Now over an hour of this B.S cold tea and no further forward whatsoever...

For anyone keen enough to have read my drivel this far , any help you could offer would be gratefully received as I'm ready to throw the whole lot of kit in the     as I really need some help 😛

 

Sorry for the Rant, but the whole process has been soooo frustrating I'm fit to burst, so really would appreciate anyone help , THANKS

 

Nick

 

 

 

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Your ethernet adapter is running at 10/100 (100Mbps), rather than 1Gbps.

Of course it is.... DOH....   apologies...  HOWEVER

it's turned into a bit of a red herring as my phone was capable of reading approx 850mbps on a gigabit hub 5 wirelessly, and here on the 500meg hub3  was getting 21, 18, 18.5 50, 48,   I'd started to do the tests more religiously on the old laptop as that had ethernet, to eliminate the wif potential issue, ill grab my sons xps as I'm sure that's gigabit. sorry..

 

OK, something obviously changed, it's now done three @ 487 and . 478mbps, 506.. on my phone wirelessly  I have done two hub resets over the weekend, so maybe something actually worked 👍👍  thanks again Carl for your assistance and persistence !!