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Lost the Internet

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Aaargh some silly person has crashed into the virgin media cabinet up the road. We've been without the internet since before lunch and not getting it back to at least Sunday. Had to stop WFH. Can't watch Netflix, Prime, YouTube or IPTV. Going to have to watch normal TV. I'm having to type this on my phone. Its a bit of a to do :cry:
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Can the phone do porn ?
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Currently using the work phone as it has a bigger screen so possibly shouldn't.
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Aha, so you did have a think about it ?
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:oops:

Now testhered my own phone to the PC I've got 11Gb of data to use and 12 weeks of isolation. Although hopefully we should a full service tomorrow.
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Was about to say have you looked down the back of the sofa....
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PitaNaanRoti wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2020 3:43 pm Was about to say have you looked down the back of the sofa....
I was gonna say that, but decided it wasn't funny.






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My Plusnet router went toast mode early in the morning this week. Nipped out to Argos in Sainsburys to collect a new replacement and was up again in less than 5 minutes after arriving at home. Pity you cannot just buy a new cabinet for virgin and plug and play it! Did the dozy driver get fined/apprehended?
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Yorick wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2020 3:50 pm
PitaNaanRoti wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2020 3:43 pm Was about to say have you looked down the back of the sofa....
I was gonna say that, but decided it wasn't funny.






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Alas......
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Backup up now, don't know how they managed to hit it. Its about 20m from from a "T" junction on the leg of the T at the back of the footpath on a housing estate with a 30mph limit. Don't know if they caught them or not. My daughter just saw the picture on the local Facebook page. A lot of use are on Virgin round here as we've had fibre foor years when it was Blueyonder.
Went to bed at 10.30 last night as there was nothing to watch on normal TV and nowadays I seldom record anything as we can stream most programs one way or another