It's even GRIMMER up North after MEGA SKY BROADBAND OUTAGE Life in the famously grim north of England became even more appalling today following a massive Sky broadband outage. Sky's service via a number of exchanges across the North West has collapsed, crippling broadband connections for customers living in the badlands surrounding Manchester and Liverpool. The provider said the …
"It talks of a broadband outage but only mentions Sky. So was it just Sky customers or all ADSL customers?"
Sky's fibre customers, if I'm reading it right. They do offer ADSL ("Broadband Connect") but it's in a very small area of their advertising blurb, unless you check whether you can get the great stuff that's plastered everywhere else :)
"Broadband connect" is their ADSL product provided over the BT network and is available to everyone, and it's crap because they refuse to pay BT for enough capacity. It's basically there so they can say to the rural plebs that they can take broadband from them.
A bit like how Virgin offers a dire ADSL connection for people not in their cabled areas, so that they can't get out of contracts because they're moving to a non-cabled house.
They also offer LLU ADSL to people who are connected to a telephone exchange with their equipment installed, probably "unlimited" or whatever it is - which is apparently a much better service than connect (when it is working). Then they offer fibre as well.
PlusNet are hopeless when there is scarcely a zephyr in the air, so no surprise that a few gusts causes them problems.
And they offer good-honest-Yorkshire-broadband, so from their point of view you (@David_Dawson) are the wrong side of the Pennines.
[I speak as someone with Lancashire and Yorkshire blood, so if you fancy flaming this particular Tudor Rose it wouldn't be the first time]
Well, there's also the Bury (Home of the late Robert Peel and origin of the Black Pudding) area to the North of Manchester.
And Southern Softies indeed, Alderly Edge. So all those footballers and their current wives, and the astronomy types from Jodrell Bank may well be scooped in to that as well.
Unless it is just Sky. In which case, serves 'em right.
Exactly - what is the point in having a petty, bureaucratic organisation if they aren't going to be petty or bureaucratic?
If something isn't done to stop this, foreign cakes, with their fancy icing, will flood UK cake shelves and cause good, honest British cakes to be left on the shelf.
Vote some random organisation to stop or start this outrage!
Mines the coat with Labour/Conservative/Lib Dem/UKIP crossed out and replaced with "what is the point?"....
You may be surprised to learn that the Eccles Building is the Nazi Romanic-style building of the Federal Reserve located in modern babylonWashington D.C., which, contrary to its name, does not house a reserve, just a computerized print shop. Set up by Monsieur FDR who thought it might be useful to control economic busts.
"Saas Fee. Dullest ski holiday i've ever been on. (FYI)"
Well I don't ski but I do walk/climb. If I did ski I could do it at the moment - many of the main ski teams are here including Japanese. The Swiss team has >18 minibuses.
I can't see the runs at the moment as there is some cloud ( it snowed last night down to ~3000m )
http://www.saas-fee.ch/en/aktuell/Webcam_Mittelallalin
Here's a suitable replacement article, with accompanying video.
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Play loud.
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Skipton, best place to live?
I can remember childhoods in Yorkshire not many miles away, playing on ten foot snowdrifts in winter, wallowing in the miserable isolation and backwardness. So apart from the weather, the locals, and the fact that it's the official Middle Of *ucking Nowhere (MOFN) perhaps it is a good place to live if you're a bored London journo scraping up some contracted copy for the Huff post.
"North?? More like the Midlands"
Speaking on behalf of Worcestershire, I'd like to say that we don't want any association with them Scouse and Manc criminals.
Obviously we need a new name to encompass this region, but as Manchester Liverpool and Sheffield are growing into each other a single town name will do. Sh1tchester, anyone?
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