Your WBC experience

[bobleslie]

Probably been blacklisted.   

My 'solution' has been postponed for another week.   

[Rik]

Mine too, Bob. One I didn't have until yesterday. I think BT are robbing Peter to pay Paul.

[bobleslie]

Sorry to hear that.

Still what can we expect testing a beta service? 

[Rik]

It was actually worse with Max, but we've all forgotten it now.

[bobleslie]

I haven't. 

I blamed Zen for poor performance which was probably due to initial Max problems.

That's why I came here. Determined not to make the same mistake this time. 

[Rik]

Same here, Bob. We need to weather what is clearly a BT storm...

[bobleslie]

Still having said all that, Rik, here I am at gone 1.00 a.m. trying to coax some speed out of this piece of string and it's not working.

How can anyone call 1400 kbps throughout the day WBC? It's not even ADSL. It's some kind of crapped out geriatric 2Mb service. This malarky has been going on for weeks and weeks with a continuous decline in performance .

What with the recent 5 days down as well, and still no explanation, it is finally time to jump ship I'm afraid. I've had enough.

[Gary]

Still having said all that, Rik, here I am at gone 1.00 a.m. trying to coax some speed out of this piece of string and it's not working.

How can anyone call 1400 kbps throughout the day WBC? It's not even ADSL. It's some kind of crapped out geriatric 2Mb service. This malarky has been going on for weeks and weeks with a continuous decline in performance .

What with the recent 5 days down as well, and still no explanation, it is finally time to jump ship I'm afraid. I've had enough.

Are you heading to LLU then, Bob? Its a shame they could not sort your issue out. 

[Tacitus]

Same here, Bob. We need to weather what is clearly a BT storm...

Problem with being at the cutting edge of technology is it's the user who gets covered in blood 

[Gary]

Problem with being at the cutting edge of technology is it's the user who gets covered in blood 

Very true, I prefer to be at the blunter edge these days

[Rik]

What with the recent 5 days down as well, and still no explanation, it is finally time to jump ship I'm afraid. I've had enough.

Sorry to hear that, Bob, but I do understand. My advice would be to go LLU, preferably Be. As we knew from IDNet and as David has found out with AAISP, you can't physically revert from WBC to Max, BT simply profile WBC to 'look' like Max. Whatever you do, don't be a stranger here - you don't have to be a customer to be a Netter.

[Gary]

Sorry to hear that, Bob, but I do understand. My advice would be to go LLU, preferably Be. As we knew from IDNet and as David has found out with AAISP, you can't physically revert from WBC to Max, BT simply profile WBC to 'look' like Max. Whatever you do, don't be a stranger here - you don't have to be a customer to be a Netter.

WEll pointed out, Rik people leaving due t WBC should be thinking of LLU as another BT ISP will give the same results. I hope all goes well Bob and let us know how you get on 

[Noreen]

As one who stuck with IDNet through much recent trouble I was pleased to get this result this morning.

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[Rik]

Now I know where my bandwidth went.

[Gary]

I am not sure if our exchange will ever be updated to WBC  we have a date for 21CN which is Q1 2011 but no WBC date at all, we dont even get a 3G signal here on any of the networks

[Rik]

Be grateful.

[Gary]

Be grateful.

Now yes but down the line maybe not as streaming media online becomes more the in thing, Rik and wha state will the Dslams end up in here with BT not being bothered to really worry about them anymore 

[Rik]

There will come a point where economic imperatives force BT to bring WBC to you. By then, it will be mature and reliable.

[Bill]

wha state will the Dslams end up in here with BT not being bothered to really worry about them anymore 

Look on the bright side- they'll have a lot of spares 

[Rik]

 

[Gary]

Look on the bright side- they'll have a lot of spares 

But I bet they sell them 

[bobleslie]

As we knew from IDNet and as David has found out with AAISP, you can't physically revert from WBC to Max, BT simply profile WBC to 'look' like Max.

I know that, but the last time I looked (20/08/2009) David had these figures:

Test1 comprises of Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
Your DSL connection rate: 5411 kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 962 kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP profile for your line is - 4500 kbps
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 4208 kbps

and seemed quite pleased with himself. 

[Simon]

and seemed quite pleased with himself. 

That's because he'd been on the red smarties again. 

[Rik]

Note. I feel I've been talking out of turn, so have removed the following few posts. Apologies to David. Mea culpa. 

[axisofevil]

Same here, Bob. We need to weather what is clearly a BT storm...

But not a thunderstorm!
Guaranteed to do your connection in.