Been booted and locked out for 30 mins

[Rik]

Toes crossed for you, Phil.

[CaptainSlow]

You may not have 30 days, Cap. You're only getting access to both ISPs till BT remembers to switch on SSB.

I know what you mean, however it must run for the life of that MAC as those are the rules as they read, or at least I have seen it said a few times elsewhere. It does make total sense once you think about it. Granted it seems a bit odd the first time you know about it though. I think it's meant to cover the punter if the first ISP they go to mucks the End User about, and then has to go to another for service. I doubt BT thought that up though, sounds more like an OFCOM imposed thing really!

Anyway, the life of the MAC Code is up fairly soon, and then it will be up to IDNet alone to provide an "always on"service.

Fingers crossed then!

[Rik]

I know that BT managed to turn off Nildram before they turned on IDNet when I migrated, so I wouldn't rely too much on the rules.

Personally, I don't see why they use SSB, multiple accounts, eg personal and company, must be quite commonplace.

[PhilFlyer]

Having used the new  6.2.16.3 firmware for a couple of weeks, I can say that although the idle timeout problem has not totally gone away, the firmware has improved the operation of the ST585 so that it stays connected for longer (over a day is good on my line) and also does not suffer the timeout problem as often as it did.

Meanwhile, the used Netgear DG834GT that I found on Ebay won't even sync on my line at the moment so maybe the ST585 isn't as bad as I thought.

[Rik]

Which is why I am reluctant to recommend routers since Max was introduced, Phil. With vanilla-ADSL, it was possible to give recommendations with a fair degree of certainty, but nowadays, people's experiences seem to vary wildly.