[SWLUG] [Fwd: Anyone have one of the new Virgin modems]

[Neil Jones]

Matthew Moore wrote:
> Neil Jones wrote:
>   
>> repost of message originally sent an hour and a half ago.
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: 	Anyone have one of the new Virgin modems
>> Date: 	Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:36:55 +0100
>> From: 	Neil Jones <neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk>
>> To: 	SWLUG General Discussion <discuss at swlug.org>
>>
>>
>>
>> Deos anyone have one of the new virgin media modems. Have you found 
>> them  to work with your system.
>> I am talking about the new 50mb jobs.
>>
>> BTW avoid using UPS their systems for redelivery are badly broken!
>>
>> Virgin use them for sending things out and their computer system has 
>> some bad flaws!
>>
>> Neil
>>
>>     
>
> Had the other message not turned up when you resent it then?
>
> Mat
Precisely Matt,

And I still haven't seen it.

Knowing the problems we have been having I thought It wise to mention it.
But I have this new modem which I would welcome advice on.
It should just slot into place. but as I am running a network off what 
should be single computer I don't want to run into trouble,


They have offered me an upgrade I would not have bothered but there is a 
really weird flaw on the
old modem.

It won't work if it is TOO COLD!

Seriously! I was getting intermittent trouble and I have the same 
trouble with my set top box for the TV. I am going to get rid of the TV 
box anyway soon.

I can fix it with a hairdrier! The set top box keeps saying the card 
isn't in place so I reasoned it might be a contact problem related to 
things shrinking in the cold.
When the modem started playing up in the same way I tried the same thing 
and I have proved it.


I have had enough trouble getting the new modem delivered. Part of the 
problem being UPS not ringing the door bell.
I simply cannot hear someone tapping on my door. reliably.

At least this time I got through to someone at Virgin who has some 
brains. You usually get through to someone in India.
Some of the Indians are not particularly fluent in English. You can test 
this by seeing if they act like language learners behave to
strange words. As someone who has studied quite a few languages I make 
sense from context.
You can test this with the Indians by sprinkling a set of Welsh words 
into the middle of the sentence.
You know they won't understand but they frequently act as if they do.
Cruel I know but effective!

I like to know a bit of the local language for where I travel. Given as 
a wildlife enthusiast I may be doing strange things it helps.
It is also nice, for example to be able to impress attractive polish 
ladies with /W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie

/In Szeczebrzesyn a beetle buzzes in the grass. It is a fiendish tongue 
twister that they have extreme difficulty saying themselves.
It is as bad as it looks.

Neil