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Dunno.

I'll guess it just means the end of the post. Since you can switch off sig blocks in the forum settings, I suspect a lot of viewers give up with sig blocks given some are extensive.

I would have though that was self evident

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I would have though that was self evident

But that's not funny is it

Must admit I never laughed out loud the first time I saw it. Nor the umpteenth time. I just find the whole sig thing a bit dunno, naff.

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I just find the whole sig thing a bit dunno, naff.

I assume you've turned the display of them off for your profile then?

Good shout. Switched them off.

As an advocate for full fibre, it's sad to see some being put off from getting it once available in their area due to poor reviews and reports of bad customer service and frequent long outages. An example that has come up recently having spoken to a few people from different parts of the UK is Gigaclear. Local communities having been put off after bad experiences with trying to get in installed to complaints about lots of outages and bad customer service.

this is what happens when a pluckly little altnet (giagclear) vs Nasty big BT - becomes an established funded player with millions thrown at it -- you have deal with all the stuff that the nasty BT (as viewed by some has had to do) . ie deliver, what you said you would, you deliveryour BDUK milestone and premises (each month every month (otherwise you dont get paid) and make sure you keep and build your network base (none of these are easy -- confused by why some though this was)

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Good shout. Switched them off.

A useful place for live BQMs. Which are often helpful for diagnostics.

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A useful place for live BQMs. Which are often helpful for diagnostics.

Especially on Virgin Media DOCSIS which is incredibly variable. Basically all I have in my sig.

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this is what happens when a pluckly little altnet (giagclear) vs Nasty big BT - becomes an established funded player with millions thrown at it -- you have deal with all the stuff that the nasty BT (as viewed by some has had to do) . ie deliver, what you said you would, you deliveryour BDUK milestone and premises (each month every month (otherwise you dont get paid) and make sure you keep and build your network base (none of these are easy -- confused by why some though this was)

Competition is a good thing, even when it's not good in particular instances, the overall net benefit to all parties is positive and hard to argue against.