Well, I decided to put in a connection for my mother so that she could enter the 20th century. With my usual luck it turns out not to work well - up and down like a yoyo. It's been in since October and this is my first visit, although she uses it for skype about once a month. TalkTalk help line have been interesting - as the line wasn't giving the guaranteed minimum the tech guy (read that as sales rep) tried to get me to upgrade to VDSL. I'm now 4 days in to help and they've sent a new router. A further call has resulted in a Bright Spark visit tomorrow, but the tech guy was quite good. Better still, the replacement modem/router was an HG635 so with a bit of fiddling it's now giving out stats (dslstats doesn't work well as it's v1.13 and supports more than dslstats allows for). I've done a bit of messing in C# and got myself an HLog Graph, which shows a rather nice 36m tap.
So the question is - is Bright Spark an apt description or an attempt at humour from TT? Is tomorrow going to be a bit frustrating, as it's my birthday and I have a hangover scheduled for most of the day
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