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Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: UncleUB on October 29, 2012, 11:15:58 AM
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Was just thinking back to when I actually found out about this site...
My first 'toe in to the water' with broadband was March 2007 with TalkTalk..... :(..for a month I spent more time off line than on until finally I managed to get out of my contract and went with BT in April 2007.All was ok for 3 months then connection kept dropping,countless phone calls to India who seemed to have me deleting browsing history/cookies every time I called.. :doh:.Till finally an engineer was despatched who spent about 3 hours fault finding at various locations..here/cabinet/exchange,until he finally went up the pole and moved my line on to a spare one...all of a sudden we had a stable connection. :dance:
Anyway back to what this thread is about...he told me to log on to kitz and register in the forums,which I did and I have been here ever since...This site helped me no end to get an understanding of how broadband works and how to find faults etc.......
So thanks Mr BT engineer for pointing me here :)
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>>> Mr BT engineer for pointing me here
Thanks for sharing that info UB, I didnt know that & thought you'd come via another website :)
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Somehow through using Plusnet, but the forgettery won't release further info. :)
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I think it was 'Google' ( Or other well know search engines ) ;)
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I really don't remember, but it was probably via Plusnet, like renluop.
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I don't really remember but I suspect Google may well have been the culprit ;)
Stuart
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I just typed something broadband related into 'Google', top hit showed as 'Kitz', so and ended up here reading most of the tutorials.
As Kitz knows, I regularly plug the site to my punters, especially when I come across REIN faults. Telling somebody that 'Magic stuff in the air is affecting the circuit, and I find it by driving round in my van with the radio on', sometimes doesn't sound quite right to the EU. Throw 'RAMBO' (DLM) into the equation, and they think I've gone off my rocker.
They think I'm telling them that because it's raining, Rambo has arrived in town and has disabled their DSL, and is now in hiding and hard to find. But, I've got a radio in my van than can locate him ??
It's good to be able to actually show text to support what I'm telling the EU. ;)
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It was back in 2007, when I first starting using TalkTalk as my CP, I was performing regular throughput checks at the ThinkBroadband site. There I saw many a reference to kitz.co.uk.
Soon, exhibiting feline curiosity, I had to take a look. From that day onwards, until March 2011, I was a regular guest visitor who was slowly reading through all the information. Eventually, having lurked for quite some time, I made my first posting . . . The rest is history. :blush:
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I've just realised it's 4 years yesterday that I registered here. :)
As for how I found the site I really can't remember, sorry! :no:
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I lurked (quite infrequently) for quite a few years, but had nothing to ask or contribute regarding my 1Mb (on a good day) ADSL connection over its 5300m or so from the exchange.
I probably first visited due to reading something in one of the Plusnet news groups or their Community Forum.
I actually registered & made my first post in August 2011 when I was struggling to understand why my newish FTTC connection had gone seriously downhill.
I'm a little wiser now, but prior to getting FTTC installed I really had no idea how Broadband worked other than high attenuation wasn't a good thing to have & that my connection showed the highest reportable DS attenuation (63.5dB) from a Netgear DG834GT when using DMT Tool, meaning that it was most probably even higher than that.
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@HP, belated 4th anniversary :drink:
@ Eric, irrc you were one of the first to sign up when I opened up the forums. I could be wrong but I think you supplied some info to add to frogstats? A few months later you were handed a broom and duster and kept an eye on things whilst I was away for a few days. For your sins, these days you also have keys to the broom closet :lol:
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It was quite interesting for me to read these posts. - Where ever it was that you did come from, I'd like to thank each of you for participating in the forums.
I still maintain that much of the forums success is due to 'kitizens' sharing of knowledge between members... so thats down to you guys
:thumbs:
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For your sins, these days you also have keys to the broom closet
When I was younger, that would have been immensely useful. :love: ;D
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Well that fine... as long as you put up a "do not disturb sign" on the door... just so I didnt go wandering in and accidentally interrupt anything :lol:
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For your sins, these days you also have keys to the broom closet
When I was younger, that would have been immensely useful. :love: ;D
ERIC !!!.........please remember there are a lot of us naive younger members on here :lol:
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Sorry for being late to the party. I seem to be missing quite a bit just lately. Busy with other projects.
Anyways as with most other members I found this place whilst looking for information on adsl.
Spent quite a long time reading and digesting the teachings on the main site before registering for the forum. One of these days I 'm sure I will understand what all these bits, buckets and what have you are about. ::)
As for people wanting to lock themselves in broom cupboards ???
Thank you Kitz for providing a nice friendly place to visit and read. (most of the time it is.)
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I think I just Googled for info to improve my download speed. I was very surprised to see that was in 2007. Thanks for all the help over the years.
Tony
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Stumbled upon the site a few years ago, when my line was acting up, and my ISP was cearly incapable of helping. So some rapid self-training was needed to understand my problems and tell the ISP concisely what they had to do.
After comparing the options I asessed kitz to be probably the best online DSL technical resource I could find, and have never changed that opinion. Never joined any other DSL forums either :)
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Just over a year ago, I was trying to understand why I had audable ADSL noise on the phone, and lower quality speech, despite correct use of filters. Googling brought me here ;D
Never did fully resolve the reason why, but I circumvented it with countless knowledge I gained from articles and forum posts on Kitz, and haven't left since :)
Ian
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I was trying to understand why I had audable ADSL noise on the phone, and lower quality speech, despite correct use of filters.
At a guess, I suspect that the filtering at the exchange end (DSLAM / MSAN) was defective . . . :-\
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At a guess, I suspect that the filtering at the exchange end (DSLAM / MSAN) was defective . . . :-\
It was a bit odd - even stacking filters on the analogue phone didn't reduce it, but bodging a filtered/unfiltered split at the master socket, then later replacing with an ADSL Nation filtered faceplate resolved the problem. There's a thread somewhere....
I reckon there's something odd with the internal wiring of the phone extensions, but never really found out what, so just kept the ADSL away from it all and it's still working well with a fast connection (20k)
Ian
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Not been online a lot lately for various reasons (one of which is falling asleep when I want to either watch tv or get online...what am I like lol). I do remember how I came about joining here and thankful ever since. I used to ask questions and read info on vnu net and among the people who helped me there was floydoid and he suggested I come over here to join in...been happy to be here ever since thanks to kitz and all the friendly band of followers on here :)
Chrissie
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Well, I wandered in here some years ago to try and help out and still pop in every now and then although not as much as I used to.
But enough of that.
Good luck Kitz (Leslie)
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Hi Chrissie and OF :waves:
Glad to see that you are well.... and still check in now and then :)
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I had just jumped at the chance of moving over to a team doing mainly broadband faulting
It was either one of my coaches or one of the other dsl engineers who told me about this site some months later.
I passed it on to other BT engineers so ther's quite a few that use it, and its come up in the engineers forum within Openreach
I learned quite a fair bit from this site, and not all just about DSL :graduate:
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And there's me knowing practically nothing about BroadBand and still hanging on in here.
Mind you as you know I don't get involved with Internet questions very often.
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Neither do I much any more
And for anyone finding grief with the Uk network, try the US :(
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Some interesting replies and comments, thanks UB for starting it.. Its also good to see that some of the names that come back from time to time.. even if they are on the other side of the big pond now. :)
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@ Kitz,Quite interesting how we all came into your 'living room' so to speak.........Still not found the key to your drinks cabinet yet though. :no: :D
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:drink:
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>>> Still not found the key to your drinks cabinet yet though.
Too late, I've already made off with it. ;D
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>>> Still not found the key to your drinks cabinet yet though.
Too late, I've already made off with it. ;D
I thought you might be involved somewhere :D
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Well he is a key man.
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Well he is a key man.
Ah....Never thought of that Colin :doh: :D
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Some interesting replies and comments, thanks UB for starting it.. Its also good to see that some of the names that come back from time to time.. even if they are on the other side of the big pond now. :)
I can't belive how busy I am now. In between calls at work is the only time I get to peruse the net a bit nowadays. Tonight it's to the youngests school As I'm a "coach" for something called Oddessy of the Mind. Our team of 5 kids have to find a way of representing 3 e-mails being sent via a server, through a representation of a spam filter. with 3 different results. The performance area is marked off with 2 lines 10ft apart (3 metres just confuses the poor collonists over here :-X) the kids can send the "e-mail" one side, recived in the right reciver the other & the process can't be touched in the space between.
It's called a performance area as the Kids also have to do a performance around this as its happening
The great egg race meets a drama class ??? What did I volenteer for
Now where can I find some representations of internet stuff to give the gids a guiding inspiration ? www.ke something something ?? www.cit ??? Oh what was that site again ???? ;)
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Oh and in addition to that last comment, I had to do part of my coaches course this saturday.
The Main teacher running Saturdays course had this habit of finishing almost each sentence with M'kay
Any one familiar with the tv series South Park. The Guys behind the series grew up not far from here. I can't help thinking could she have taught in Columbine high school years ago and been the inspiration to part of one of the characters. ::)