BT are useless ?

I'll give the forums a shot, it can't hurt.

As for BT staff, so far I have only spoken to scottish, english and "american sounding" people.

It could be that business support staff are UK based then, and consumer level support is out sourced.

Good luck on the forums, but as I say, the outputs from the router indicate nothing being wrong, and fully capable of getting the full upstream. It must be cap somewhere on the BT network.

Good luck!!
 
I've found a really good site I use, when I get to a point with a clients job and I need to contact someone who gets things moving.

http://www.ceoemail.com/

I've used it a few times and it's always helped- fix them very fast.

I like it, as soon as BT come back and tell me that it can't be fixed again Mr Livingstone will be getting an email I think, not that I actually believe it will do me any good.
 
I like it, as soon as BT come back and tell me that it can't be fixed again Mr Livingstone will be getting an email I think, not that I actually believe it will do me any good.

I've had dealings with BT CEO (replied to my email in minutes personally) - problem was fixed the next day. Also TalkTalk, Plusnet, SKy CEO all who have helped fix problems - i've also had a personal email off them all - mainly just to say there team is looking into it, but its still helps get things moving fast.
 
I've had dealings with BT CEO (replied to my email in minutes personally) - problem was fixed the next day. Also TalkTalk, Plusnet, SKy CEO all who have helped fix problems - i've also had a personal email off them all - mainly just to say there team is looking into it, but its still helps get things moving fast.

plusnet are a bt company.


But certainly with larger companies emails addressed to the CEO can work after normal channels hit a brick wall. OK yes these emails only goto the CEO's admin team but these people are normally "can do" people.
 
BT have caused me some grief this week. I installed a new Cisco router in a local business, they are growing and had a lot of problems with their old set up, about 13 days ago and everything has been fine except a few problems.

On Monday I got a call saying outlook is asking for a network password on all computers and the internet was very slow. When I got there they had a download speed of 192K. After checking everything out I asked them to phone BT and after a little while found it was their exchange.

I got another call today saying they had no internet. This time the router would not sync at all. Ended up on the phone to BT for 1.5 hours and they are getting an engineer tomorrow. One of the best bits of the call was they claimed that did not supply the business with broadband until they looked out the latest bill.

Just annoying as I was about to get blamed.
 
Go to the BT forums here http://community.bt.com/

The mods there hould be able to help you resolve the issue and leaise with BT's support staff. There are plenty of instances of people with capped upstreams on there. It's pretty common.

The other thing and I don't like saying this but I have often found it to be true, is that many of the call centre staff based in India don't seem to truely understand the system. I would ask to be transferred to an English representative and see if they can help you.

Well I am pleased to report that using that link and going throughthe forums, a member suggested I elevate the issue to forum leaders, they responded after a couple of days telling me that they don't support business issues, but that they would forward to the business team.
The business team got in touch a few days later and went over what the problem was to which I responded, I then got another response which outlined 2 things
1 - they hadn't read my email properly
2 - after further investigation they had managed to find out that when the line had been regraded they had not put the regrade through properly. They had the order management team put through a modify order and the issue was resolved later that day, I now have full speed on my line HOOOORAAAYYY

I had been in contact with business support before through email and hit a brick wall but it seems this time they looked into the issue properly.

The homehub is still faster though, by quite a bit, 5 - 7 mb quicker down and the business hub will not upload faster than 1mb, whereas the homehub will.

So for now at least I will stick with the homehub and probably purchase something else when it dies, but at least I have the business hub as a backup for when/if it finally does kick the bucket.


Thanks for all the help anyhow folks. :)
 
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