* Posts by Blatant Coward

6 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Sep 2016

Amazon pops up more shops

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Amazon Now

@Mage

Amazon now delivers sameday in hour slots, just like super market deliveries.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/b/ref=pn_uk_surl_lp?node=6584642031

having a store in town that is open late and can accept my parcels from Amazon would be amazing. Argos need to get in and own that space before they are flushed out the pan. Late opening so that those of us that are at work during the day can still collect our stuff without driving 10's of miles to the couriers depot.

End all the 'up to' broadband speed bull. Release proper data – LGA

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nothing wrong with upto.

i understand that the product i subscribe to will provide a speed upto x mb/s which is Dependant on my line quality.

All the xDSL providers are in the same boat and will provide the same speeds as the limitation is the access line to the customers house from the local cab.

i can buy:

adsl up to ~ 18mbs

vDSL up to ~ 50mbs

vDSL up to ~ 70mbs

VM 50/100/300 mbs

whilst VM's coax technology ensures they can guarantee their access speeds to all, the others are different and variable.

the public just needs to know there are different tiers of access speed which is dependent on their individual line characteristics. nothing more nothing less.

Its like a choice of toll roads offering different max speeds with the car being the connection rate. A crappy car won't be able to reach the top speeds in any of the roads, whilst a decent car will on all of them.

the only fix is to buy a faster car. or in BB terms move to FTTP or move the cabs closer to peoples homes and continue to use copper as VM have done.

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how about they try the Open Reach address checker

https://www.dslchecker.bt.com/

shows exactly what you get at your home address.

me and my immediate neighbors are on a different cab to the rest of the street and benefit from slow vDSL from our fttc cab 1.2 km away vs slow adsl for the others on the road connected to the non fttc cab on our road ~200 meters from my door..

VW Dieselgate engineer sings like a canary: Entire design team was in on it – not just a few bad apples, allegedly

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That's right, throw the book at him.

But then if he knew this for to long why didn't he do something about it earlier?

You should install smart meters even if they're dumb, says flack

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@chris 125

We have gas for heating because it's vastly cheaper than using electric.

If your kids are turning on the immersion then just use your boiler programmer to ensure the tank is hot before they need it and take the fuse out of the immersion heater so it can't be used. Maybe just have your HW on constant throughout the day? The boiler will heat the tank faster than the immersion and be vastly cheaper.

It looks like your failing to utilise the correct water heating technology to minimise your bills, smart meter or not. If you believe your boiler uses more fuel to heat your water than your immersion then there is something seriously wrong with your setup that you need to get checked out.

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Re: Smart Meter Mis-selling

Nothing to stop you reading the gas meter when you read the leccey one though is there?

Maybe smart consumers are needed, not smart meters?