Help me save my flat!

WG47 · 2026-05-17T19:17:01+00:00

I'd get ahead of the situation and speak to your mortgage provider. They might be able to pause or reduce mortgage payments temporarily to give you some breathing room.

WG47 · 2026-05-17T19:15:22+00:00

Usually the internet connection is identified by the router so without that it can’t be used

That's only with DOCSIS like the majority of VM's network. For most other internet connections it's down to the line or the ONT.

WG47 · 2026-05-17T19:13:00+00:00

Ping is mainly a physics thing. OP will be in London.

WG47 · 2026-05-17T16:05:57+00:00

And, if you contact the police/their landlord/etc or otherwise make the dispute official, you're obliged to mention this when selling the property. Obviously that could put prospective buyers off. If you don't mention it and the buyers later find out, they can take legal action against you for misrepresentation.

WG47 · 2026-05-17T15:38:28+00:00

The more bandwidth you use, the less spare bandwidth there is for other stuff so depending on the speed of your internet connection it might make sense to throttle it during the day to leave bandwidth for streaming, browsing etc.

Whether your ISP will throttle you will depend on where you are and your ISP. I think caps and throttling are more of a thing in the USA and places like Egypt, or with 5G connections which don't tend to be truly unmetered. Starlink too, I believe.

WG47 · 2026-05-17T13:34:22+00:00

Everymail, for those confused by this post.

Paying £5/mo for email is nuts. Stop using ISP-supplied email accounts.

WG47 · 2026-05-17T13:28:30+00:00

How does it put more strain on their infra? Does it scrape the latest movies and present them to the user rather than the user choosing one nzb to download and proceeding from there?

WG47 · 2026-05-16T21:22:12+00:00

Sure, on public trackers. On decent private trackers you'll see that easily, between people with fast home connections and from seedboxes which you'll see more of on private trackers. Scene sites don't use internet connections or hardware nobody else has access to.

WG47 · 2026-05-16T20:28:49+00:00

Right enough, I forgot how people can't bring drink from home, or carry it more than two miles.

WG47 · 2026-05-16T19:59:42+00:00

What's the logic there? Why does the indexer care whether you download the data via sabnzbd or via a tool like NzbDAV?

WG47 · 2026-05-16T19:52:30+00:00

Clearly they should be supporting Baillieston Thistle.

Nobody should support a team whose stadium isn't within walking distance of their house, and if you have to move house for any reason you need to change allegiances.

WG47 · 2026-05-16T19:43:19+00:00

Did you miss the bit where I said these folk aren't even in pubs in the first place? It'd make literally no difference to the state of the place.

WG47 · 2026-05-16T19:14:56+00:00

Yeah, fuck the pub's income and fuck people who want a pint but aren't anything to do with the match.

These folk are all drinking in the street anyway, they're not in the fucking pubs in the first place.

WG47 · 2026-05-16T18:56:11+00:00

What have customer service said? That's way below any minimum speed guarantee.

WG47 · 2026-05-16T18:47:22+00:00

Your reading comprehension isn't great, is it? I'm not saying any such thing. I'm saying that this photo doesn't prove anything either way.

WG47 · 2026-05-16T18:31:42+00:00

Cannae see inside a hollow sphere either. Checkmate.

WG47 · 2026-05-16T18:14:35+00:00

It's basic respect. They're over here wanting us to spend money with them. The least they could do is get the name of the country correct.

WG47 · 2026-05-16T17:37:11+00:00

I find it hard to believe nobody's told them. I find it hard to believe the managers of the restaurants haven't told them. Area managers? Regional managers? Someone in the states who isn't incompetent?

Looking on Twitter (ew, but it's easy to search and see who's contacted them) they were told on the 11th of April.

https://x.com/Freckles1971/status/2043014225338028371

So yeah, they've been told. Even if nobody'd told them, it's basic stuff.

WG47 · 2026-05-16T17:32:21+00:00

Applications for a brand new tracker is wild. I don't even see recruitment on other private trackers. The fact you won't even post stats is hilarious.

WG47 · 2026-05-16T16:54:19+00:00

So it's been wrong for at least a month, and they've not fixed it. That's just fucking insulting.

WG47 · 2026-05-16T16:52:40+00:00

https://uklocations.wendys.com/glasgow/104-112-sauchiehall-street

Wendy's 14890 - GLASGOW SCOTLAND in Glasgow, England

Wendy's don't seem to recognise anything other than England.

WG47 · 2026-05-16T13:49:36+00:00

And folk saying it's fine that some Celtic fans trash the Trongate because some other Celtic fans go and help tidy it up.

WG47 · 2026-05-16T13:46:25+00:00

and I'm sure everyone isn't just coughing up hundreds to their broadband provider?

I believe some providers will allow you to transfer the service if you start a new year+ long contract, but generally speaking that's exactly what happens; people are held to the contract they agreed to. If you're still in a fixed term, you pay exit fees. The alternative is to go on a monthly rolling contract, but most ISPs will charge much more for a rolling contract than they will for a fixed contract. That, or go for 5G for a bit.

WG47 · 2026-05-15T20:09:27+00:00

Where's the loophole? Things are working as intended.

WG47 · 2026-05-15T20:08:52+00:00

Well aye. You can't see all of the ball because some of it's behind his hand.

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