Well just completed my morning ritual of discon-recon my Youview box, since the HH5 dropped PPP 3 times last night for no reason.

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

I hear they have a "B" version of the HH5 (and maybe the HH4) in testing at the moment.

That would be nice, I've always found the B versions to be better... wonder what hoops customers will have to go through to obtain one of these.

Hope they test it better then the A version, I think BT must have rushed that one to market - desperate to save money on OR managed installs...

Edited by deleted (Fri 09-May-14 13:49:24)

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Edited by ian72 (Fri 09-May-14 08:52:02)

I do not know why people persist with this BT branded hardware. Just do your research and get a decent modem/router from Billion or some other reliable brand and enjoy rocksolid, carefree internet. Saves time and money in the long run 8)

The only half decent modem/router that Bt supplied was the original Business hub from TwoWire, the "designer" stuff is ghastly.

All imho ofc.

I couldn't agree more, I tried countless routers and modem/router combo's before settling on the ZyXEL SBG3300-N which (for me) works better than any other I've tried.

Totally disgusting suggestion in this post, is this something BT condone from their "forum bouncer" customers? How do posts like this remain in the public domain when other legitimate questions are taken down and the users banned? See message 11:-

Get it from Dabs.com or the BT Shop then!

How to these people get privileges over other customers?

Cancelling an existing order particularly if already allocated to Openreach is a recipe for a head ache.

On the gift cards if you have proof that is BIG consumer affair news, particularly as they've never done a £45 gift card offer that I can recall. Some outlets have run exclusives which may complicate things.

Very similar posts were done here some time back for Argos. I believe the person posting it does not work for BT and any posts are highly unlikely to be condoned by BT (what does "distinguished guru" mean - to me it just suggests it could be someone that has posted lots or has had "likes" from other members). And it isn't much different to various posts on here suggesting VPNs so that people can get around blocks on illegal downloads.

It isn't something I would set out to do but there are many people that do.

Ah but these some of these people have powers on the forum normal customers do not. Those powers have been given to them by BT.

That was why I asked what it meant. A cursory look didn't give me any info on what the various tags for people were or what powers might be available to them. And just because people might have mod rights does not necessarily mean that BT condone what they say - just that they have given rights (that should have rules) to manage posts.

There used to be some mods on here that didn't represent TBB itself (sadoldman and billford for example but I am not sure that anyone other than MrS and the owners now have mod rights to TBB).

In reply to a post by radiomarko:

I do not know why people persist with this BT branded hardware. Just do your research and get a decent modem/router from Billion or some other reliable brand and enjoy rocksolid, carefree internet. Saves time and money in the long run 8)

The only half decent modem/router that Bt supplied was the original Business hub from TwoWire, the "designer" stuff is ghastly.

All imho ofc.

Hmm... I have a BT 2-wire 2701-c business hub, maybe I should give that a go...

Yes but it's not exactly a good idea to give rights to people to act and speak on your behalf if they offer this sort of advice, especially as a retailer themselves. It's a bit like Microsoft condoning piracy.

BT can't hide behind them, it's BT's forum and BT gave them the powers therefore anything they post is BT's responsibility.