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Thread: The Capitol to close
Post: RE: The Capitol to close
| I dunno, I discuss the projection box all the time. |
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25-05-2016, 01:27 PM |
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Thread: Consultation on Controlled Parking Zone in Forest Hill
Post: RE: Consultation on Controlled Parking Zone in For...
| PV carpark has just had its lines repainted and an infestation of Japanese knotweed removed. I use it late at night and as female don't feel at all unsafe. There are commuters and evening revellers pi... |
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rshdunlop |
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22-05-2016, 08:14 PM |
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Thread: Consultation on Controlled Parking Zone in Forest Hill
Post: RE: Consultation on Controlled Parking Zone in For...
| I doubt they'll put another ticket machine in Perryvale now they have RingGo. It's a very large car park to only have one machine.
Sydenham also has a free car park - it's in Girton Road, the turn b... |
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rshdunlop |
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22-05-2016, 08:02 AM |
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Thread: Consultation on Controlled Parking Zone in Forest Hill
Post: RE: Consultation on Controlled Parking Zone in For...
| I think the idea of the posters is brilliant.
As a regular user of the Perryvale car park when visiting FH central, I'd love two hours free parking. I think it's reasonable to pay for anything abo... |
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rshdunlop |
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20-05-2016, 10:20 PM |
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Thread: Consultation on Controlled Parking Zone in Forest Hill
Post: RE: Consultation on Controlled Parking Zone in For...
| It is not inaccessible. 'Inaccessible' means it is impossible to access it, which is clearly not the case.
It does feel awkward to get to, but in reality you are probably only adding a few minutes d... |
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rshdunlop |
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18-05-2016, 11:48 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill School: petition to stop it being forced to become an academy
Post: RE: Forest Hill School: petition to stop it being ...
| As the school is rated good by Ofstead it can no longer be forced to become an academy, following the government's climb down last week. |
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rshdunlop |
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11-05-2016, 06:39 PM |
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Thread: Virgin Broadband Super Super Slow in the evenings - anyone else?
Post: RE: Virgin Broadband Super Super Slow in the eveni...
| I wouldn't hold out too much hope. They give out dates for resolution but what that usually means is that's when they'll start looking at the problem. They finally admitted to me that an area upgrade ... |
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11-05-2016, 04:31 PM |
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Thread: Dog Attack 05/02
Post: RE: Dog Attack 05/02
| Pico - Here's my question - how is that dog behaving? If he's just calmly walking with his owner, there's probably nothing to worry about. And why do you describe the owner as 'sketchy and aggressive'... |
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rshdunlop |
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09-05-2016, 12:52 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill write-up in the NY Times
Post: Forest Hill write-up in the NY Times
| If we get some American tourists this summer, here's why: [url]http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/05/travel/what-to-do-36-hours-in-southeast-london.html?smid=tw-share&_r=3[/url] |
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06-05-2016, 01:16 PM |
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Thread: Dog Attack 05/02
Post: RE: Dog Attack 05/02
| As a dog owner I, and others I know, now make sure that my dog is behind a closed door when I answer the front door or have anyone come into my home - tradesman, delivery, whatever. Because that law s... |
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rshdunlop |
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04-05-2016, 05:15 PM |
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Thread: Lewisham live-garden waste recycling
Post: RE: lewisham live-garden waste recyvling
| But we don't know how many of those 116,000 households wouldn't take a green waste bin because they have no garden. The only significant percentage is of potential uptake, not all households.
Yes,... |
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rshdunlop |
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03-05-2016, 06:43 PM |
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Thread: Lewisham live-garden waste recycling
Post: RE: lewisham live-garden waste recyvling
| It's not as simple as looking at what people have paid for the service and translating that into pure income to run the service. The bins themselves need to be paid for, first off. Secondly, the whole... |
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03-05-2016, 03:35 PM |
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Thread: Lewisham live-garden waste recycling
Post: RE: lewisham live-garden waste recyvling
| To answer my own question, there are 116,000 households. Of those some will have no garden, and / or will share bins with other households in the same building. So it's not possible to work out what p... |
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03-05-2016, 03:09 PM |
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Thread: Lewisham live-garden waste recycling
Post: RE: lewisham live-garden waste recyvling
| Is that figure of 249,000 households or residents? |
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rshdunlop |
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03-05-2016, 02:21 PM |
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Thread: Do we need a pedestrian crossing on Perry Vale at the rear of Forest Hill station?
Post: RE: Do we need a pedestrian crossing on Perry Vale...
| It's a utility repair - water or gas, I can't remember which. The crossing is there because the footpath is closed so they want to direct people to use the other side of the road. |
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rshdunlop |
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28-04-2016, 03:05 PM |
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Thread: Do we need a pedestrian crossing on Perry Vale at the rear of Forest Hill station?
Post: RE: Do we need a pedestrian crossing on Perry Vale...
| Coming from Perry Vale you HAVE to cross before the lights, which will allow you to cross back again. I've just crossed where the footway is first closed, just past the car park entrance and it's quit... |
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27-04-2016, 01:02 PM |
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Thread: Lewisham DLR to Lewisham Hospital Walking
Post: RE: Lewisham DLR to Lewisham Hospital Walking
| Probably more like 15. You'll have to allow time for negotiating the glorious set of roadworks on the roundabout. |
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rshdunlop |
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25-04-2016, 02:06 PM |
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Thread: Changes to Lewisham refuse collection services
Post: RE: Changes to Lewisham refuse collection services
| Londondrz - why would you need an extra green bin? They will still be collected weekly under the new scheme.
I doubt they will be handing out any extra grey bins if the aim is to reduce what goes i... |
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rshdunlop |
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18-04-2016, 11:45 AM |
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Thread: Changes to Lewisham refuse collection services
Post: RE: Changes to Lewisham refuse collection services
| The refuse collectors will not be getting a week off. They will be collecting green bins, food bins and garden waste bins every week. Every other week they will also collect grey bins. That's MORE col... |
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rshdunlop |
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18-04-2016, 10:45 AM |
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Thread: Changes to Lewisham refuse collection services
Post: RE: Changes to Lewisham refuse collection services
| Under these proposals green bins would still be emptied weekly.
If you had a food bin, your grey bin would not be as full so fortnightly might be okay. Food bins would be emptied weekly.
Howev... |
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rshdunlop |
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18-04-2016, 07:11 AM |
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Thread: Changes to Lewisham refuse collection services
Post: RE: Changes to Lewisham refuse collection services
| It proposes a weekly 'food collection'. So presumably that means another bin just for food. How much will that cost? How does it work in other boroughs that provide those little kitchen food bins and ... |
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rshdunlop |
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17-04-2016, 07:44 PM |
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Thread: Garden Waste Collection Service
Post: RE: Garden Waste Collection Service
| I rather get woken by the refuse collectors than stuck behind one in rush hour traffic on a side road. Actually, I never hear them anymore, and they come and move our bins out to the kerbside pretty e... |
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rshdunlop |
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14-04-2016, 10:38 AM |
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Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Dartmouth Road Pavement Parking
| I've mentioned this on the other thread dedicated to the improvements works but how about this: every time someone sees illegal pavement parking, take a picture. Once a week or so, email Lewisham with... |
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rshdunlop |
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13-04-2016, 07:36 PM |
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Thread: Parking Tickets being issued in Perry Vale car park when paying via RingGo
Post: RE: Parking Tickets being issued in Perry Vale car...
| RingGo charge a penny for free parking - I assume it's because their system isn't set up for zero charges or it's a holding charge against your card in case you add more time later and there is a char... |
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rshdunlop |
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08-04-2016, 10:11 AM |
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Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
| The best way to make Dartmouth Road pleasant for pedestrians would be to make sure traffic flows through efficiently. Having a lovely public space beside a honking, rumbling, particulate-emitting traf... |
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rshdunlop |
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31-03-2016, 01:48 PM |
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Thread: Fallen tree removal - any recommendations? Urgent!
Post: Fallen tree removal - any recommendations? Urgent!
| Can anyone recommend someone who can clear a fallen tree for me? My regular guy is not answering his phone. Our neighbours' tree came down on Sunday night across our garden. As there's no property dam... |
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rshdunlop |
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29-03-2016, 09:36 AM |
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Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
| I'm getting a bit confused here about what has actually happened.
Is it the case that the FHTA as a group was not informed of the meeting? If so, any trader who was there can't be said to be repres... |
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rshdunlop |
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22-03-2016, 01:14 PM |
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Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
| Re the paving slabs - there have been serious problems in Sydenham with obtaining slabs to replace ones removed (and in the process damaged) for utility repairs. So there are some ugly temporary tarma... |
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rshdunlop |
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21-03-2016, 06:27 PM |
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Thread: 'Vote up' SE23 for faster broadband
Post: RE: 'Vote up' SE23 for faster broadband
| Don't go anywhere near Virgin. They have over-subscribed areas of SE23. You would be grateful for 11Mbps at peak times on Virgin 'superfast'. I have just had to fight them tooth and nail to be release... |
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rshdunlop |
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18-03-2016, 02:53 PM |
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Thread: Water Leak - Perry Rise - Road Closed
Post: RE: Water Leak - Perry Rise - Road Closed
| In that case I think you'll find there ISN'T still a hole in the road. There was a lot of activity over the past three days and I'm pretty sure the hole is now filled, although the concrete still look... |
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rshdunlop |
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18-03-2016, 08:04 AM |
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Thread: Water Leak - Perry Rise - Road Closed
Post: RE: Water Leak - Perry Rise - Road Closed
| This morning it looked like they'd mostly filled it in, and were just waiting for the concrete to cure. Have they dug it up again? |
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rshdunlop |
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17-03-2016, 08:14 PM |
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Thread: Sky phone/internet outage in local area
Post: RE: Sky phone/internet outage in local area
| Mine is back on, although I had to restart the router to get it up. |
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rshdunlop |
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11-03-2016, 06:12 PM |
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Thread: Garden Waste Collection Service
Post: RE: Garden Waste Collection Service
| According to the leaflet I got, a very large majority of respondents to the recent survey on waste services asked for brown bin collection. That's respondents, not residents. But still. |
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rshdunlop |
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08-03-2016, 01:25 PM |
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Thread: Garden Waste Collection Service
Post: RE: Garden Waste Collection Service
| Maybe those who still want green bag collection could let Lewisham know and explain why? It's probably the same refuse team picking up the green bags now and the brown bins later. |
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rshdunlop |
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08-03-2016, 11:21 AM |
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Thread: Garden Waste Collection Service
Post: RE: Garden Waste Collection Service
| Whether you need your bin emptied every week is neither here nor there there as long as you would use 6 or more rolls of green bags in a year. You're paying a flat fee. Work out how much you spend on ... |
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rshdunlop |
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08-03-2016, 08:29 AM |
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Thread: Garden Waste Collection Service
Post: RE: Garden Waste Collection Service
| As a heavy user of the green bag scheme, I'm happy about this. I'm lucky, though, to have a side return so can wheel my bin back and forth that way. An option for others would be to have a few black s... |
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rshdunlop |
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07-03-2016, 05:52 PM |
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Thread: Water Leak - Perry Rise - Road Closed
Post: RE: Water Leak - Perry Rise - Road Closed
| It's frustrating that SGN don't have a searchable database of current issues and repairs on their website, unlike Thames Water. However, their Twitter team is fairly responsive - has anyone asked them... |
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rshdunlop |
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05-03-2016, 01:04 PM |
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Thread: Ignore List
Post: RE: Ignore List
| Twitter is a poor choice of analogy here. What you see on Twitter is entirely self-selected. You can't do that on this forum. Block lists on Twitter are not to stop you from seeing the tweets of other... |
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24-02-2016, 01:22 PM |
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Thread: Delays on London Road Saturday 20th
Post: RE: Delays on London Road Saturday 20th
| Perhaps someone who is on Dartmouth Road on a daily basis could take a photo and email it to Lewisham each and every time they come across an illegally parked car or van. Then let Lewisham defend this... |
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22-02-2016, 01:23 PM |
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Thread: Curious Lewisham socket
Post: RE: Curious Lewisham socket
| Satellite socket for the coax cable from the dish, radio would be FM ariel (probably little used these days). |
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21-02-2016, 12:49 PM |
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Thread: Virgin Broadband Super Super Slow in the evenings - anyone else?
Post: RE: Virgin Broadband Super Super Slow in the eveni...
| An update. Virgin confirm the current situation is within their accepted parameters so they won't do anything. If and when overage reaches the required critical level, they would try to divert capacit... |
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16-02-2016, 05:28 PM |
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Thread: Royal Mail Delivery Problems
Post: RE: Royal Mail Delivery Problems
| If your mail is turning up opened, especially those that are clearly birthday cards, I wonder if that's a matter for the police. See this advice on what to do if you think you mail has been tampered w... |
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16-02-2016, 01:34 PM |
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Thread: Neighborhood watch
Post: RE: Neighborhood watch
| Unless it's one of those well-documented scams where they convince someone vulnerable with all their savings under the bed that some work urgently needs to be done that costs thousands of pounds. |
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11-02-2016, 02:14 PM |
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Thread: Bus on Lambeth bridge
Post: RE: Bus on Lambeth bridge
| We all feel differently about a lot of things if we have personal experience. You can't protect everyone all the time. They still film disasters in New York. Pretty much the whole of Manhattan was emo... |
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09-02-2016, 02:30 PM |
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Thread: Virgin Broadband Super Super Slow in the evenings - anyone else?
Post: RE: Virgin Broadband Super Super Slow in the eveni...
| Speedtest.net is the one the engineers use when they are testing my system remotely so it's probably pretty accurate.
Looking at BT Infinity today, they guarantee a minimum speed for me of 68Mbps. ... |
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04-02-2016, 07:50 PM |
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Thread: Virgin Broadband Super Super Slow in the evenings - anyone else?
Post: RE: Virgin Broadband Super Super Slow in the eveni...
| Lucky you - I've got 6 Mbps right now. *straps forum reply to carrier pigeon* |
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03-02-2016, 11:31 PM |
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Thread: Virgin Broadband Super Super Slow in the evenings - anyone else?
Post: Virgin Broadband Super Super Slow in the evenings ...
| We have an ongoing problem with our Virgin broadband which drops in speed to unusably low levels about 8pm every evening and all day on the weekends. It's sometimes as low as 2Mbps. We are heavy users... |
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03-02-2016, 04:27 PM |
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Thread: Ignore List
Post: RE: Ignore List
| I'm still perplexed by people calling ignore lists censorship. No one would know who I was ignoring except me. I would know that person had posted - I see a notification in place of the ignored post. ... |
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02-02-2016, 08:00 AM |
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Thread: Ignore List
Post: RE: Ignore List
| Interesting assumption, that only left-wing people use ignore lists. How did you make that leap of logic?
Using an 'ignore' list doesn't stop anyone expressing their opinion, it doesn't shut down d... |
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01-02-2016, 11:25 PM |
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Thread: Ignore List
Post: RE: Ignore List
| I used 'ignore' on another forum so I'm not tempted to read a certain person's posts and reply to them. I have to click to reveal them and more often than not I don't take that extra step. It's to pro... |
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01-02-2016, 03:55 PM |
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