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Ah so the mobile phone thing wasn't just me then? Didn't bother to mention that as 3's always flaky at ours. Didn't know all the mobile networks had gone on the blink. Everything's back to normal now - very weird.

FFS, fibre down again on Spurling Road. Have people also noticed that whenever it dies, devices within the house stop connecting to each other across WiFi too?

Did some digging the other day into other fibre services, in Spurling Road at least, there's no other options. If only Virgin have fibred your road, then only Virgin can give you highspeed internet. After 2 hours calling around, the maximum anyone could offer us - BT included - was up to 8mb ADSL. That's basically useless in a family house were the parents often work from home. I don't how many roads haven't been done by BT round here, but if BT hasn't done your road as well as Virgin, then Virgin's your only option, as all the other suppliers use BT's fibre infrastructure.

Dead in spurling road too.

But does anyone other than Virgin Media provide fibre connections in East Dulwich? I?m pretty sure our road (Spurling Road) is just VM. I can?t face going back to adsl speeds, too much streaming and downloading across the family for that to be viable anymore.

Hmmm, not sure that the two only options for humanity are a rat plague or pooh in UlStED's garden, there's probably a third option somewhere. rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can I just throw in here (as someone who doesn't > currently own cats) that if all domestic cats were > removed at a stroke the rat population would > quadruple within a month and continue to expand > exponentially (due to their rapid breeding cycle, > a single pair of rats can be responsible for > 15,000 new rats in a year, and half a billion > within three years). I agree that all cat owners > should be responsible and provide litter trays and > encourage cats to use them, but as any cat owner > knows they're wilful buggers and do as they > please. But a bit of cat shite or a plague of > rats, your shout!

rendelharris Wrote: > Extremely unlikely that cats will have been > regularly relieving themselves on a hard surface > like astroturf, they always want something they > can kick over. Much more likely foxes, that seem > to prefer hard surafces, as the state of my garden > step regularly tesitifies. We have astro turf too, and i assure you that cats will, and do, crap on it. Regularly. I've watched them do it. I'm with DulwichBorn&Bred, my children should be free to play in our garden without the fear of rolling in cat-crap. People have a right to prevent animals using their garden as a toilet, for both practical and health reasons. Deterrents like pepper or gel all get washed away after a day's rain, so aren't workable solutions. But DulwichBorn&Bred, i will also say that owners probably do have a litter down, and the cats access to it. They just prefer to go outside - when we had a cat, he did the same. In fact, having a cat was the only true deterrent to other cats crapping in our garden. Sadly though, i expect he was probably crapping in our neighbours' gardens.

Yup, after a shaky start this morning I?m back to full speed again

I never call the support line these days as it?s alwaays a total waste of time. They haven?t a clue and will only ever annoy you more, I seriously don?t know why VM even bother with it they must know it serves no value. I just go to the online support forums, report it when it happens and if it goes on, subsequently seek a refund. It?s never much, but every little helps. I?ve never known anything to get sorted by VM as a result of a call, and I?ve learny to never believe a word the operators tell you. I?ve heard so many BS stories and promises. I get more reliable and constructive info here. Then it?s generally a case of sitting it out until a fix. I just wanted to be sure it wasn?t my setup.

Completely unable to log in today, no connection whatsoever. System says ?Access Denied?, but no hardware?s been touched or logins changed. I?ve had many issue with VM before, but this is a new one. I?m on Spurling Road near the EDT.

Sorry to hear this, it's always frustrating to feel you've not made a good buy. There have been issues with some batteries in the iPhone 6. Apple is running a repair programme... https://www.apple.com/uk/iphone-battery-and-performance/ ...the seller should have probably told you this, but sadly they're not obliged to do so. They'll argue the info is out there to be found. If the phone is running the latest iOS 11 the phone itself could tell you the condition of the battery before you handed over the cash. Take a look at this... ...it'll help you determine if the battery really is the issue. If it is, and you didn't pay too much for the phone, paying Apple ?25 to get it sorted isn't the end of the world. But do do that, don't go to a street corner place, you'll get a poorer battery than Apple will give you, and in some cases they may cause other problems with the phone.

Data on three is usually terrible from Denmark hill station to about a third of the way up lordship lane. Voice works ok outside but is poor inside. The only reason I tolerate them is their unlimited data bundle.

Where abouts in ED are you @thecat? TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Virgin broadband been shocking this week, hasn't > dropped out altogether, but been very > intermittent, particularly in the evening (much > worse than usual)....just me? Or others getting > similar?

Organised for Virgin to come over the weekend to fix things as they said there's also a problem with our modem as well as with their network. Stayed in most of Saturday and nobody turned up. Apparently i contacted them to cancel the appointment. A new excuse to beat all others. They've also formally acknowledge the contention issue's back (if it ever went)... "there does appear to be a high demand for our service in your area under the fault reference F004756302, with a review set for 29 MARCH 2017" What a bunch of idiots.

Anyone else been without internet since this morning? We're at the EDT end of Lordship Lane.

Anyone having issues with Virgin Media "broad"band today? Keeping getting patches of no connection.

@ed_pete's right, Virgin did do a fix earlier this year which sorted things out. I went from regularly getting less than 2mb to consistently getting between 50-100mb. @mickmack, i've got a package from Virgin without a landline. I had to harass them to get it, but we simply never used the the landline so there was no point paying for it.

Yes, service has been more reliable since their upgrade. Hopefully it'll stay that way.

Frenchpolisher - I doubt you'll ever get 200mb. I'm on 150mb and only very rarely see over 100mb. Norm is 50-75mb.

Thank you everybody. :)

People here may wish to know... George was involved in an accident of some sort between last night and this morning and sadly didn't make it. A big thank you to the manager at the Brickhouse Cafe for getting him to a vet who contacted us today with the news. We got George when he was around two years old from the Celia Hammond rescue home. He was a stray, and ever since we've had him he's been prone to wandering long distances and getting lost. His first two years with us saw regular posts to the East Dulwich Forums; us looking for him, people reporting him found. With all his wandering, and living so close to Lordship Lane, it was inevitable something would happen one day. Keeping him indoors permanently was never an option, he'd quickly go stir-crazy and dart out through any available exit. A big thank you to... - All of you on here that have helped find him over the last few years - we've appreciated the help! - The staff and customers of the EDT and Actress who put up with his regular visits for strokes and scraps. - All the local Dulwich residents with their open door / window policy and cat snacks. - The friendly commuters who greeted him each morning on their way to work as they passed our house. - And of course to George himself, who brought a smile to so many people's faces every day. We'll miss you George, you handsome devil you, keep smiling. Love Bella, Clara, Kati and Rob.

Mine was down, but now back and get between 40-60mbps, so i assume they are fixing / have fixed it.

Yup, 18th of May is the date they're banding around, but not for a fix, but a review. This means they'll decide whether it's worth fixing (i.e. benefits vs costs to Virgin Media - not a customer-centric decision). There's been 4 or 5 of these review dates set in the past, with new dates set each time. So don't get your hopes up. Personally i'm probably going to bail after this one if they just set a new review date. Rob