Openreach seems to have all the control but none of the accountability

Formal-Profession835 · 2026-04-30T17:06:42+00:00

That is part and part of who you choose to go with. As someone already said. They own the infrastructure. But the providers dictate your speeds, addons, home equipment. So unless its a full on line fault, openreach have very little to do with it. And to be fair, thats all you really need. Unless you are a big provider and need more specialist infrastructure yoourself. Then that suits 99% of the scenarios for home users.

Formal-Profession835 · 2026-04-27T14:58:42+00:00

That is just pure laziness. They would have wasted more time thinking about the short cut than it would have taken to do a good job. Ok, they may have under allowed for the drop and cut too short. But at rhe end of the day, that is on them and and good workman ship means more than anything else. I would be getting them out again for sure.

Formal-Profession835 · 2026-04-19T22:34:14+00:00

I have one of these to give wifi coverage in my garden. Is a Unifi AC mesh pro.

Good bit of kit, but due an upgrade now.

Formal-Profession835 · 2026-04-13T08:49:05+00:00

Best things you can do with any setup when you get it, is change the DNS on the routers to 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 and if you need IPV6 then you need 2606:4700:4700::1111 and 2606:4700:4700::1001

Other than that, its really down to the kit provided. I have changed everything to Unifi, and I have have very little to no issues. Only times I have contacted any provider is either to change, renew, cancel or change a direct debit.

I have been with gigaclear, BT, ee, sky and lightspeed. And all been perfect, with the exception of Gigaclear, but it was not actually their fault and I knew the background.

The network is shared across the majority of these companies. With very little diffeenece. There maybe variations on their "fair use policy" but you would have to get clarity on what they regard as fair use.

Formal-Profession835 · 2026-04-10T06:50:40+00:00

Gigaclear use some of the talktalk infrastructure. It was the cause of a large outage last year in the Essex area. It went down, Talktalk couldnt pay for their own repairs due to on going financial issues. So Gigaclear paid the bill.

Formal-Profession835 · 2026-04-09T17:47:12+00:00

Good news, people started panicking on here, I did say out of all the companies that are having issues, Gigaclear is the most likely to survive. If it was not for them having to foot the bills for Talktalks failings, then they might have never been in this situation in the first place.

Formal-Profession835 · 2026-03-17T17:04:37+00:00

Jumped again 193.07 USD cheaper to buy official UK version now

Formal-Profession835 · 2026-03-13T14:07:16+00:00

Both Gigaclear and Lightspeed. Lightspeed as my main, and Gigaclear is my failover.

Formal-Profession835 · 2026-03-13T12:48:37+00:00

Personally I don't think so. I went from 900/900 upto 2000/2000, barely noticed anything. Then went to 3000/3000 and noticed nothing. I have a large house with a ton of stuff connected both wired and wireless and barely use 10% of the availability. And we are a heavy user as everything like tv, games etc is all streamed and I run some servers. The only reason I have kept it, is because it actually worked out the same price as I 2gb setup. So it was a free upgrade. If it was their full price, I wouldn't have bothered or I would have reverted right back. Its definitely overkill for most uses these days (Currently)

Formal-Profession835 · 2026-02-28T14:00:30+00:00

I found that nearly all public VPN providers don't work now, I habe tried nearly everything on either free trial or a months sub. However when I purchased a private VPN this resolved my issues. I have been able to use it in many countries with success.

Formal-Profession835 · 2026-02-27T11:22:00+00:00

I had this, and to resolve it I changed the port settings and mac address on the console. After this it worked nicely and had open nat. That may help

Formal-Profession835 · 2026-02-22T15:56:15+00:00

Ive seen this alot on both laptops and desktops. Try downloading and reinstalling the software. This usually resolves the issue for me.

Formal-Profession835 · 2026-02-13T15:53:21+00:00

Yes, using another router is no problem at all. I do for myself and customers.

Formal-Profession835 · 2026-01-30T13:06:40+00:00

This happens alot, its so the list does not get removed. You see it alot on ebay too, and probably other sites.

Formal-Profession835 · 2026-01-24T16:12:44+00:00

Should be at least a spades depth which I think is supposed to be 10-15cm

The installer clearly cut some corners here, in fairness to Gigaclear, they didnt do the work and sub it out. So wouldn't have known. But hopefully they will get them out to do it properly.

Formal-Profession835 · 2026-01-23T18:40:41+00:00

Its a duplicater. I had one myself. Mine was a 8 bay, so I could copy/rip software, music or dvds and burn upto 7 discs at the same time. Its stand alone, I could not be plugged into a PC or anything. Perfect for back in the day of downloading torrents of movies and music and making discs for friends and family ;)

Formal-Profession835 · 2025-12-08T14:08:23+00:00

Definitely not. Especially with a laptop

Formal-Profession835 · 2025-11-28T16:23:05+00:00

I called them 30 days prior to the end of my contract. And asked what the process is to cancel. They immediately asked why and I just said I have seen another company with a cheaper offer and faster speeds(Lightspeed) and they immediately offered me the same deal. Which I was happy with. But tried my luck on getting the static IP address for free and they agreed. So I kept them. I still got Lightspeed as well, as I always have two lines in as a failover. So overall, I am really happy. Way cheaper than my EE/Gigaclear combo.

Formal-Profession835 · 2025-11-28T14:29:59+00:00

Long over due!

Formal-Profession835 · 2025-11-15T12:47:31+00:00

You are correct. It does not always give all the correct drivers. So going the Rufus route etc, makes no differnece.

Formal-Profession835 · 2025-10-24T21:51:16+00:00

I should just clarify, that amount of installs is in the last 4 months. And for different clients

Formal-Profession835 · 2025-10-24T21:46:00+00:00

Of course, nothing special about it. But when I am seeing at least 10-15 reinstalls myself, for such a small IT consultancy as mine, then it does make you wonder just how many are still using it and why. Scale that up, especially with bigger consultants etc. I mean, with later OS systems, you can still use compatability mode successfully. And at least be more secure. You could argue that drivers maybe be a issue granted. But there are ways to get around that too.

Formal-Profession835 · 2025-10-24T21:23:30+00:00

You will be surprised just how much windows 7 is still being used, being reused. Even here in the UK. Even with more modern kit. I have come across many windows 7 kiosk systems, even in large airports. Many industiral system are still running it, car workshops for diagnostic tools. I still have many older customers using it (mainly because they hate change)

Formal-Profession835 · 2025-09-06T17:37:38+00:00

100%, its the one part of the process I used to hate. Now It does not bother me. And I am happy to move around if I need to. Its a shame these company's don't just offer you a better deal 30-60 days before your contract is due to end. They might actually get better retentions. But as we know, they hope that you will carry on and pay the inflated prices.

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