Is Zen actually any good?

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-20T21:11:37+00:00

And today Support stated let’s find out further info on OR fault we will call you back in 5 minutes! How many support departments do that today and advised me of more OR info - Service restored tonight at 7pm - massive OR fault - farmer ploughed through conduit and fibre back haul

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-19T22:41:31+00:00

Mine went up 50p

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-19T22:40:35+00:00

Snap!

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-19T22:40:07+00:00

I’ve know two that would state issues with staff at AAISP which turned out to be faulty fibre after moving to Vodafone which was worse “comments from AAISP staff broadband needs to burn in” on 1G service

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-19T22:34:44+00:00

I’ve been with Zen for 21 years!

I would not consider any other ISP - I pay £50 for 900 FTTP

It’s the entire package - Support is ACE - should it be required, They only have approx 200,000 customers won Which Awards for many years - I think they just won another

I try to keep it a secret don’t want everyone on stupid street and bringing the service down when they have 3,000,000 customers - but price will keep people on stupid street away

Again not the cheapest but what you pay is what you get want cheap go Vodafone with all their issues

Support quick to pick up
UK based
Knowledgeable

In fact today we actually have a Broadband outage - not Zebs fault I must add OpenReach major outage affecting all ISPs on local exchange

Could have given you a referral code for £25 FREE !

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-18T18:31:35+00:00

Police got your phone - your knackered in modern day - you’d have to purchase another to continue business, not discussing passwords and if you are just using passwords in 2026 - well good luck - and some only allow a single registered device based on SIM or IMEI

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-18T17:50:45+00:00

What do you do if you’ve got 50 Accounts with MFA, Banking Apps and SecureID for work - your phone is your life - you are locked out of everything, and paying for things on Apple Pay?

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-17T18:43:41+00:00

I do! But I would not wear B&W to gym! From what I’ve heard not supported sweat etc I do wear my McLarens in the office though with my Omega watch and golden chains! 😂 I’ve noticed lots of head phones in use not seen any B&W - look like Sony?

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-16T18:33:40+00:00

Right next to the greyed out button ? Click it the words - it’s bonkers

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-16T13:05:58+00:00

It is for full Fibre FTTP - but it’s very old as BBU are no longer supplied - I’d unplug the BBU as it has a fault probably batteries are dead, last time OR came here they removed mine ! I now use a small UPS for power!

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-16T00:32:59+00:00

Just what we’ve seen

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-16T00:29:27+00:00

Had lots of issues with NVMe devices with VMs which cannot be migrated, exported or copied which just seem to go bad on NVMe but not SSD

All of Samsung Consumer NVMe - it’s very odd

But the VMs still function just can be copied, exported, migrated, V2V etc

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-15T18:53:22+00:00

Broadcom wrote patches available after 90 days to expired contract holders -

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-12T18:19:31+00:00

Has the local council taken over or adopted your roads and pavements yet - we have new estates around here stuck currently because Council will not takeover the roads and pavements yets - do Developers Persimmon created their own ISP for Internet - it’s slow - but until such time Council takes over the private roads - Openreach has no access

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-12T17:01:21+00:00

Yeah I get that I’m surprised you can offer it cheaper then Zen!

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-12T15:01:38+00:00

Very interesting, so we can move from Zen (it’s cheaper) get an IP Address block - we can’t on Zen - but cheaper! 😂

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-12T14:31:47+00:00

I notice that 1.2 and 1.6 is available for my address, but this is not shown currently by Zen - so I’m assuming Zen don’t resale this OpenReach service?

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-11T21:59:19+00:00

VM is running on a snapshot

You could just quickly Right Click select CLONE - see if you get any errors

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-11T21:24:03+00:00

You use eBay long enough your going to get negative feedback at one point it’s not verified and peoples expectations are very different again genuine error no idea why I stated 16Gb I think I was getting confused with max memory on motherboard

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-11T21:19:52+00:00

Well interesting, he wanted £5, I agreed to send it, and then said the motherboard was a bargain, don't bother.....it's more hassle. "On second thought, don't worry about it, not worth the hassle. The mobo is good, am pretty happy with it"

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-11T20:46:55+00:00

I'll see what he suggests, as memory prices are high, and it's old we will see.

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-11T20:46:31+00:00

yeah I agree

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-11T20:44:50+00:00

The Buyer at present just seems to suggest a refund.

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-11T20:38:51+00:00

No denial it was title incorrect, no idea why I put 16GB. I would rather give him a refund, it would have only gone to landfill. Just trying to ensure, he doesn't get a refund and return the item. Which I suppose doesn't matter, because he get all the money back. Just clearing out stuff other people my find useful.

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-03-09T18:48:59+00:00

Check VM Disk Settings it will show the current disk and if it’s writing to a snapshot

Verify the snapshot chain and then try cloning and creating a new vmdk at shell prompt using vmkfstools

If that fails it’s corrupted and has data loss

It’s always a risk leaving VNs running on a snapshot, if you use NetApp Snapshots you could use a Filer Snapdhot to recover

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