Finally given up on BT

Thanks for all the help I received on this forum to help me get my BT broadband working. The trouble is, it never really did and I just lost the will to live with the foreign call centres.
Signed up to O2 and just got online today. Still got over a year left of the BT contract but even scaling down to minimum contract I'm still now paying less with O2.
And did I mention that the broadband actually now works? After months of frustration with BT this week was the final straw - downloads speed below 1Mb and even worse wi-fi connectivity within the house with iplayer dropping all the time and a stuttering connection which made it impossible for me to use ftp.
Plugged in O2 today and this is easily faster and smoother than we ever experienced with BT.
I know some of you guys here are happy with BT and the support you give to others is great - it's a pity BT can't offer the same support themselves when you ring them up.
Cheers then, off to browse at speed at long last )

No you do not need a viewing card, you need the multicast update, which is probably why you never received a card.
You could try this, it might work for you:
http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/42451/~/problems-installing-the-new-look-bt-vision-so...

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A sidenote here,
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Sorry to hear your hard drive quit.
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Many thanks. Looking at that thread it looks like there are a few others having the same issue as me. Might be to do with not using the predetermined rates for clip slowdown and inputting my own.
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Not much else I can do though I suppose.

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Can't update Apps. Wants me to verify old Apple ID that no longer exists.

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How do I disable future iOS updates till later date to prevent problems with non iOS compliant Apps?

Hello first time post here so excuse me if my posting etiquette is off and this seems lengthy.
I am a beginning tech (4 months) in a school district that has started the 1 to 1 initiative with iPads (iPad 2).
There is a huge learning curve I am facing as I don't know hardly anything about the new piece of software - apple Configurator. (A side note I was issued my very first iPad in the same time working for the district. BTW liking the iPad a lot).
I am looking for friendly beginning user info on how to operate the Apple Configurator - suggestions? At this time I have only served in an observer capacity as it assigned to someone else in the district to do. However I know this person would appreciate another mind to help out around the problem so I need to get up to speed.
This a story of bumps and scrapes and bruises on the 1-1 initiative in the district and its 4 major hiccups have occurred (that I observed).
I am hoping others have discovered these problems and figured out a way to handle them or avoid them and would be willing to share what you did.
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So after 3 weeks of these apps not working, App update/releases were finally given and they are working again. So far we have only fixed some of iOS6 kids that are in need of those two broken apps.
Now we are at a crossroad with the other 95 installed apps to consider ... if we let the students update to iOS6 to fix the two broken apps will it interfere with the other 93 apps that are working under iOS5.1...
This iOS update thing would be better considered in the summer time for us (for future iOS updates).
So I need to know is there away to prevent this in the future? Is there away to hold off the iOS updates till summer? I've seen people say control it by blocking it through the network but it doesn't prevent them from doing this at home. Where in the apple Configurator can we control this?
Thanks for reading.

You will not be able to block IOS 6. You can try blocking it with a webfilter or firewall but if the students take these home or connect to another network or iTunes they can get it that way.   You will find that the vast majority of all apps will work with 6 or have been updated to work with it by now.

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