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With 1 day to activation BT now inform me that they cannot switch on my internet until next Tuesday.
As I need to be connected for work does anyone know if any temp internet?
Just wondering if I should make BT pay? So far they have proved themselves more incompetent than Virgin or Sky?
How much data will you use?
Edit: giving the folks below a chance to give a better answer.
How nice am I? lol
just get a 3g/4g dongle and use that for a week.
good luck with getting any compensation out of BT.
Tether through your phone? Its my backup for when the broadband goes down or is slow.
Edit..beat me to it
You employed? Dingle and sim charged as expenses, they may even have something on a corporate deal. Or a lot of costa/Starbucks
Had the same issue, solved with a Three dongle although could have tethered my Giffgaff phone as an alternate.
I got it refunded by BT but only by complaining to their Chief Exec who forwarded it on to his executive level complaints team, who after a bit of Openreach 'ineffectiveness' were excellent.
http://phonebt.com/bt-complaints/
Ask a friendly neighbour for wifi code
Thanks all. Is there a dongle etc that can be picked up from PC world etc? Might use for emails etc until connected
Yes, most have a variety of potentials, or go to a high street store
Get to a three store for a dongle, decently cheap PAYG options.
Alternatively badger BT for one. When I moved house with O2 broadband they gave me a dongle with some data on it to use till the line was up and running.
BT Fon uses your neighbours' wifi signals and cobbles something together for you. Not 100% ideal but better than nothing.
Google it.
+1 for tethering your smartphone or a dongle or portable hifi hotspot with a data SIM
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BT Fon uses your neighbours' wifi signals and cobbles something together for you. Not 100% ideal but better than nothing.
Usually worse than nothing. It's a load of hassle trying to connect and when I do I get zero data, or it loads web pages at 9600 baud speed.
Also annoying if your phone decides to auto connect to one of these. I have to force it to forget so I can get back onto mobile data and something useable.