A customer of ours recently suffered a complete outage when another ISP tried to install a line into their premises. Obviously wasn’t the ISP’s fault, just a bad job by a BT…
Spooky
In preparation for Halloween I thought it would be a good idea to have a few pumpkins in the office. As you can see I obviously enjoyed the process and feel at…
Size doesn’t matter
When I was choosing my latest car one of my main requirements was to have a big engine. I was just fed up of having a small four cylinder engine, and especially…
Striking is so last century
Royal Mail, I am intrigued as to what the union believes it is going to achieve. Yes, in the sort term, they may get some concessions by holding management by the short…
Formula 1 gets exciting
I have enjoyed F1 more and more over the years with today’s Brazilian GP the best yet. Not only did we have a consecutive English champion for 2009 but the quality of…
It’s good to stay in touch
A good example of how far we have come with technology over the past few decades can be summarised by my brother, Toby, who last week moved to the USA. For most,…
Problem with being first is you can’t stay there
News last week on Britain’s abysmal performance in the global rankings on broadband speed. Apparently Britain is 25th out of 66 countries across the world, dropping us one place over last year.…
Wax on, wax off
I find an important part of my working week is the chance to recharge the batteries and take stock of what I have accomplished in the week just gone. Yesterday evening as…
Openreach go back to the old days of BT
Interesting development over the past few weeks has been BT Openreach actively telling end users about BT’s new (or old depending on how long you have been waiting for it) 21st Century…
We should all use carrier pigeon
With talk of people growing their own vegetables, using grease proof paper instead of plastic and not having any lights on to save the planet it looks like the internet will take…
Weekend reading in the FT
A short article in the Financial Times this weekend on my early stages in business and how Fluidata came to fruition. Mike Southon, who wrote the piece, has a weekly column in…
Thank god I am not a consumer using broadband
While I enjoy talking to my mother, I think this week I have spoken to her more than when we lived together for 18 years. It all started when her home broadband…
Torange
Shame that it looks like T-Mobile and Orange will join forces in the UK creating the largest mobile operator. From my perspective, as a consumer, I was hoping it would be O2…
Clouds in the sky
I am one for endorsing the merits of cloud computing, as previous articles will testify, however it does have one very major headache to overcome, the connection to it. As I have…
Bonded ADSL2+ takes on EFM
A lot of focus on the wholesale platform is giving other ISPs the ability to bond multiple lines together to get EFM speeds using the nationwide Be ADSL2+ network. We have had…