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Re: Got one just a couple weeks ago ...

Not a lot of people are falling for it...

https://bitref.com/123HqT7HboCdbxkDnWCPDdg9tYP8hjtzy6

"If Three had really wanted us to not worry about data usage, then they would not have removed their unlimited data offers."

They haven removed their unlimited offer? I still have 4 SIM cards with Unlimited data and they are still available on the website. £32 a month for All you can eat everything (including Feel at Home and 30GB hotspot) is possibly still cheaper than a SIM/Mobile Broadband solution.

Re: Virgin Media customer here.

I'm a 300Mb customer and only receiving on average 70Mb over the month (Also a SamKnows reporter). I say bring back the peak time throttling as I reckon it's when they ditched that things started to go down hill.I know throttling is everyones pet hate, but I would rather be throttled to 100Mb at peak times then play the gambling game of anywhere between 0 and 10 in the evenings.

Re: what's the date today?

"If the value is higher, they need to enter their PIN, which slows things down slightly. If a customer had to enter a fingerprint, it would slow them down even more. I simply can't see anybody wanting to do it."

It takes less effort (and is more secure) to hold a phone with your thumb on the reader than it does to enter a PIN in the machine.

Old Way:

Get wallet out

Find card

Insert card into reader

Wait for till to do it's thing

Enter PIN

*Correct PIN if you entered it wrong*

Hit Enter

Wait for approval and remove card once told to do so

New Way

Remove iPhone from pocket.

Choose payment card from Passport app on screen.

Present to reader in the usual way you hold a phone (thumb on front, fingers behind).

Put phone back in pocket.

New way seems a lot less effort to me.

Re: Just me then...

"The only downside to the whole shebang that I still have to pay a £13 monthly standing charge for a phone line that I never use."

Why? You don't need a phone line for either VM Broadband or TV. We used to have VM BB without renting a phone line.

Re: Perfect

"I think the password is for the Starbucks WiFi rather than paying for the warm milky stuff"

From article: "The stored plaintext password is used to log into the user's online Starbucks account"

To me that say it stores the password to the Starbucks account. The account used to collect loyalty rewards and also pay at the till with your pre-paid account. I guess the email address would be there somewhere too.

You must.... just a little tiny weeny bit..

After all, you read the article and posted.... and no doubt you'll check back to down vote this post, along with your army of iDontCare's

I've just got back from Vegas flying on Virgin - you can use their on-board mobile network whilst in flight which is a bonus as a nervous flyer (FlightPro), even more of a bonus was the strong AT&T signal I got over Denver which meant I was able to surf the internet at 3G speed for standard (not overly inflated Airline) roaming costs.

Re: Why the hell...

Hard wired or wireless?

My average download over 2.4G wireless was 30Mb in my street (lots of BT shitehubs in range), moved to 5G and this jumped up to the 120Mb I have coming into my house, same results if I plugged in directly to the hub.

Speak to VM and ask to be included in the Sam Knows trials - they send you a box that you plug in and it monitors your line speed all day/night - you get to see the real speed you are receiving at any time.

Re: @Credas

My BMW does it now - I have an SOS button that sends all the data through to the control centre if I push it, whilst initiating the call - I'm led to believe it was also automatically make that call if I am in an accident, so it's all possible and makes sense to me.

Re: Only a matter of time.

I have a remote to open my front door

http://www.yale.co.uk/en/yale/couk/ProductsDB/?groupId=4292&productId=59002

Re: put a lock on the OBD port

@TRT That's exactly where it is on my 5 series, doesn't stop them. Smash window, open door and voila.