MODS; I formally ask mods to lock or preferably delete this thread as I had zero intention of starting a pointless flame war.
j0hn, I appear to have offended you. That is regrettable. I have _many_ reasons for my choice and my priorities are not not yours, but we are all different. If was was rude to you, then I regret this, it was unintentional. I was impressed by our white space man who came to do a sales pitch and in that thread offered him assistance or have you forgotten that bit, because as I believe I said there are many who could seriously benefit. That thread is off-topic here. I want bit-carrier solutions to resell so I can have my choice of ISP. I do dismiss wireless out of hand, as is my right. It is very helpful technology for many but does not fit in with my personal choices, but this will be completely irrelevant for many, with good reasons. Burakkucat for example makes different choices for ISP than I do. I do not feel a need to slag anyone else off for their choice of ISP. :-)
Seriously, I would be very grateful if you would email your thoughts to RevK as you might secure some improvements for all of us.
Some years ago I wrote a piece explaining what I thought was excellent (for me) about AA and a lot of it may not have been at all obvious, I can't be sure, and a lot of it seems to be different from people's oft-repeated expectations about AA only being about support and being expensive (which I am not sure it actually is, but I am no expert), as for example comparing it to TalkTalk retail would be stupid because they offer a completely different range of services and benefits. TalkTalk offers a POTS for example. Perhaps someone could dig that out for us.
If you feel an overwhelming need to slag someone off, then I suggest that you do not control it, but direct it at the Scottish Government or UK Government who have failed completely to give BT the funding needed to level the playing field, help expensive rural users and upgrade those most in need first. :-)
Another suggested target for a good slagging off would be the hotel down the road that is paying for ISDN still. Which I found out about today and thought that was hilarious - choosing 128kbps.
There will not be any further correspondence in respect of this. It will serve no purpose you trying to analyse my choices, attempt to alter them or flame me further. I had a serious question to ask, trying to understand these vouchers and what they are all about. An opportunity for unsolicited slagging off of me and AA is off-topic.
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@Ronski - unfortunately, 4G does not seem very reliable here, even 3G has some outages for days. When the mains goes off, the base station goes down so it is useless as a backup technology. But I have seriously considered using 4G. I am still looking into this. I can get 4G if I am near the window. Problem is my bed is at the west end of the bedroom, the window and the base station is at the east. I am possibly too low to clear the window sill, but raising the iPad up does not help, so a bit mystified. Perhaps the basestation is actually too far to the north, ie left, don't have my glasses so I cannot see it.
@re0: :-) it is up to me as to whether or not I consider alternative technologies. Why do you not think I have already done so? I do not need censure in this matter. Make sense? These posts do not convey tone, so no anger nor intention to insult intended, just a statement of fact. :-)