That tends to be how it is sold - work from home while the kids stream movies and watch TV (itself a sad commentary on modern life but I digress).
It does make a worthwhile difference on large downloads - as I said 100G is less than haf an hour at 500Mbps whereas it was 5-6 hours on the 50Mbp/s connection (which I still have as it has a pool of static IPv4 addresses which I use for a couple of servers).
5-6 hours for a game download can easily be “no gaming tonight” whereas half an hour is “wait until after tea”.
I don’t watch TV but my partner does occasionally. However, given the ADSL offerings where we are (at the end of 3 km of wet string, apparently), fibre seems to be the only way we can get more than 2Mbs
At long last, we can report that we have a landline and proper internet connection - via fibre.
The technicians came yesterday and installed the box and told us that the phone line would be up and running within 2-24 hours. And it is! Since 18th September we have been without a phoneline so we can get back to normal now.
We are at the end of the line from the Control Box (about 5km) so we used to have a very weak signal:
via ADSL our speeds were -
Ping 21. Download speed 2.05mbps. Upload speed 0.80mbps.
We are so glad we’ve almost got to the end of this sorry saga. All we have to sort out now is we need to get a longer optic cable - the one supplied with the Livebox5 is 1.6m but we need 2.5m. The technicians yesterday supplied us with a temporary fix until Orange can supply a new one.
And then there’s the invoicing to sort out as we have been billed for the past two months. But that should be no problem !
This could have gone in with the Cheerful News postings but I thought it best to write the follow-up in here.
Right now not many - though as I said in another post a quarter or half an hour to download a game update (which can be huge) to your Xbox or PlayStation vs 5 hours or more can be the difference between “playing this game tonight” and “come back tomorrow”.
The temporary connection we have has already been attacked by the kittens. I think it was the colour of the wire that attracted them. They’re game for anything new so this cable was another ‘toy’ for them to play with. The cable is only about a quarter of the size of the Livebox5 cable but the good news is that a new one is on its way. It should be with us by the weekend and the invoicing situation has been sorted out. The Helpline confirmed that we will be credited with 100€ as compensation and the invoices we paid (that we shouldn’t have paid) will be credited.
The Airbox that was on loan and the Livebox4 have been returned so all we need to do now is keep an eye on the next lot of invoicing and our bank statement to see that they fullfil their promise.
