Reading your complaint and solution my hub has been dropping out for the last 12 months but been working through it. Demanded two new hubs and got them, amazing from their brief they try to blame computers of which we have three, can’t all be US.
Everytime I telephone BT INDIA it comes back on and I am now aware that to bring it back online all I have to do is press the green button on my handset, get a dialing tone and I am back on, no need to make a call. Just done it again as I went off line whilst writing this memo.
BT engineer coming AM tomorrow 270408.

Stephen

Anyway, I love FON!
It doesn’t take the full 1/2 meg if you only have 2.5meg. It dynamically adjusts the allowance so that you have priority.

This is the way forward for wireless broadband. Forget 4G and HSPDA. When the BT 21st Century Network comes online, they’ll be able to up its speed as well and make it far faster than these.
The benefits gained for the loss of up to half a meg are great.

Free openzone (normally £1 per 10mins) AND free connection to all other FON users (only available if you sign up).

At the end of the day, if for some strange reason you don’t like the idea. Don’t sign up. BT aren’t forcing you to after all!

I’m going to push Thomson to see if any updates are going to be forthcoming any time soon to fix this nonsense (even if they have to be put on a USB stick, or floppy disc via a USB drive)… If not, then I’ll probably be looking for a more expensive (but better value) Freeview-only PVR - or ditching it altogether for a V-box, as we still have a vestigial Virgin cable box hanging around - and returning the Thomson to Tesco after retrieving anything of value from it.

Luckily I haven’t yet been tempted to either upgrade the hard disc, or extract programmes direct to DVD using my computer, so the sanctity of it’s case and warranty are assured.

Oddly enough I do live in the Sutton area, and previously had some wierd issues with the signal strength checker going bananas when going up/down channels, I’ll have to test that and see if it’s improved (not needed to play with it for a while since I found my aerial was misaligned and got it properly aimed at the transmitter).

It’s still missing recordings for no reason (at least issuing a warning message, but that’s still no substitute for the programme I’d wanted to watch), creating recordings that are so corrupt that they make the box freeze solid if you try to view them or even leave the highlight on their title for more than a second in the list (made deleting it kinda tricky), getting confused over timings and recording two and a quarter hours for a one-hour programme (with the target one occupying the last 60 minutes, not the first, so you have to fast forward to get to it … and if you go over 8x seek, it freezes), being completely confounded by the concepts of “fast forward” and “rewind”, only displaying the progress bar at random, etc. Sometimes it will refuse to actually record something when you hit the “record” button at the start of an unexpected programme, even though the icon comes up on screen after you’ve done the silly “hold it for 4 seconds” thing… the red LED doesn’t come on, and it doesn’t record, you have to actually go into the EPG and set it as a ‘planned’ recording, even though it’s already started. Not to mention we’d be lucky to get 60 hours of recording overall from this “120 hour” machine - some of those 2 1/4 hour recordings seemingly took up 6 hours of space, given how the “free space” reading jumped when they were deleted.

Just crap. Want a refund. Don’t actually give a toss about TUTV, it was just the cheapest PVR around… and we didn’t even get what we paid for. The 10-year-old VHS tape recorder sat next to it (that i’ve been archiving series onto), which cost £49, exhibits none of these issues. It has no frills, it just bloody works. Why can’t the PVR do similar?

(I’m copying this to notepad to use in any email I might end up sending them, in fact)

best of luck

Will any other station play jazz