Painless

Are we there yet? Can I have an ice cream ? Where are the photos ? Lol ; )

Photos photos photos ........ !!!

Bloody hell ! Lack of crowd control, firefighting equipment and ambulance is as you say Chris, "shocking" !

Amazing how little damage there is considering what might have happened. Good skills !

Lol. To be fair Artie does tell his good lady that she does not appreciate how exhausting it can be, being right all of the time ! ; )

I see a possible career change Arjen, that is quality mate !

Thanks Chet, I am as OK as I will ever be with this kind of shit.

Welcome to the kennel !

Looks like another Fan Tastic project m8 ; )

Thanks Nick m8 ; )

WTG Tonar old son.....

Shuttlecock ?

Konnichiwa !

It's not just our hands that are looking old these days Chetly ; )

I will wear something inspiring ; )

I love the flamethrower used to light the bugger ! Lol

Excellent news Arthur ! I did get a call back from Mr Jason exactly on time last night and he said that for my connection to improve so quickly it was most likely a "load balancing" problem fixed. He explained that this is simply redistributing remotely more evenly, the local traffic at peak times between several local servers. So it can be done : ) Connection has remained steady and fast with good ping, UL and DL at peak times.

After speaking to a jolly nice chap called Jason who seemed to understand my peak time only problems, the buggers seem to have done something at last. Ping was around a constant 40ms and I only had one green bar in IL2 last night : ) First time that has happened in 3 weeks at least. I have been promised a return call from Virgins "second line" people next Tuesday at 8pm to discuss... I did get a call back last time but not within 48 hours as promised but within 4 days.

At peak time as well Nick, excellent.

Now I have ping envy ! I see the time of that test Arthur, what do you get at 8.30 pm m8?

News papers are always right of course ; ) lol

Unfortunately I was lied to. Ping was still over 100 all evening and download reached an all time low of 11Mb. Rang Virgin again while the evening speed problem was evident. This time they could see how slow things were for themselves. All of a sudden there was a recognised "power outage" in my area apparently ? I asked if this had been the case since Christmas but no one had bothered to mention it to me. I then got a "ticket" number for my complaint and told that a manager would ring me in the next 48 hours. Arthur, you can see how much fun you can have with Virgin !