The Plusnet (BT subsiidiary) Usage Monitor is more sophisticated than that offered by BT. Can we please have the BT one updated to provide similar facilities. The desirable features are

1. Usage displayed ony 2hours out of date

2. Usage this month broken down on a daily basis.

3. Usage breakdown by activity showing surfing, email, streaming, FTP, Peer to Peer etc.

4. The ability to put a cap on usage so that the user does not go over their monthly allowance. 

It would be helpful if the BT Broadband account holder could nominate one sub-account to have free access to the hotspots, in addition to the main e-mail account.

A parent could nominate a young person who may be away from home, at university or college.

This would avoid the need for the primary e-mail account details to be revealed.

The account holder would still be responsible for hotspot usage, and could suspend the access if needed.

Kerry,

Some people have put their location on their public profile. It would be helpful if this could be displayed below their name, as its useful to know where people are located.

Keith

I think this is something that would have to be implemented in conjunction with Lithium. There is a problem when people enter phone numbers or account numbers onto a searchable website. They could end up getting nuisance calls or worse.

Would it be possible for the software before accepting a post remove 9/10 digit numbers which start with a 01, but are not 08 numbers.

It would stop people having to edit their posts so much and make the forums a safer place to post. Similarly, account numbers (all starting with LC) could also be auto-blanked/not accepted.

I know it would be a hassle, but it might help some people who aren't so web-paranoid or quick editing their posts.

How about having an integrated exchange checker built into the forums!?

People can find out the exchange they are on and can therefore include it in their first post, making solutions quicker.

There could also be an integrated exchange VP congestion checker as well like the 'Exchange Status Checker' from Plusnet (Click Here). This would allow people to check congestion at their exchange before they post about it, which may save time in the solution.

Chris

could you develop a app for Nokia so I can access my free wifi minutes via phone?

thx.

On here we get a lot of gamers saying how they want interleaving to be turned off as the preference is fastpath for the lesser delay in latency.  And vice versa people on more unstable lines wanting it to be turned on.  In My account like the ISP ADSL24, there should be the option to turn it on/off as it is such a simple little thing and saves the mods the time and trouble to do it and would probably take quite a few queries out of the queing process.  

I think it would be a good idea to have some sort of official board or blog or something similar, specifically for the purpose of making content suggestions for On Demand.

We all have lots of ideas and suggestions for what could be included in On Demand TV, Film etc but often suggestions via the main forum can be missed or not addressed. A proper channel for submitting suggestions would be really useful and effective - we would know where to go to submit our suggestions and not waste space on the main forum which really ought to be for more techincal issues, faults and user guides etc. Thank you.

Lots of people always ask about Vision Multiroom.  I think it would be very popular if it were to be made available.  In my view, a 'second' vision box in the home wouldn't need to be a hard disk recorder.  The main vision box could act as a 'server' with additional box(es) being clients.  They could then be used to stream recordings in other rooms or access on demand content.  It would need a card slot too for Sky Sports / ESPN subscribers and could probably be smaller so less intrusive if used in, for example, a bedroom.  I'd be interested to know what other people think.

Recently the BT speedtester has dsiplayed some additional input requests for me (though it stopped today)

This means a number of inoputs and confirmations thus

1 click to yes radio button confirm you have done that stuff on the first page

2 click on ADSL/Fibre to the cabinet speed test

3 enter your phone number

4 then asked if this is the correct number prompt yes/no

speedtester does some stuff, then...

5 then asked to tick radio box prompt and if you want to continue with a video service quality test - 

6 then prompted to select continue or exit

This means I cannot go off and do something else and I must wait for prompt and respond

What I would like is

1 enter phone number

2 do test

How nice would that be ?

I might be tempted to go paperless if you could send me my latest bill as an encrypted e-mail.

I don't want to go paperless for any of my suppliers as I get fed up of having to logon to a wide range of web sites just to find out what my latest bill is. It is much easier to wait for the post.

So offer your customers the ability to receive their bills as encrypted e-mails.

Hi,

I thought it might be a good idea to show what packages / features you take from BT. I have seen this in use on a number of different forums and is placed underneath the avatar.

This would allow us to see what everyone else currently subscribes to!

Kyle

I'd like the spell checker not to point out the spelling mistakes in messages I'm quoting.

I'd also like the option to automatically spell check when posting as sometimes I forget, hit post and spot the mistake as it's posting!

The forum is starting to get very popular. Sometimes when I look at the threads in the BB Home section and know the answer to a question that has been asked, I find my self just ignoring it due to the fact that the question has been answered many times before.

I thought that if there were an incentive there, like every month the top 3 users with the most solutions gets a discount on their broadband for that month.
Discounts:
- 1st  Place £20

- 2nd Place £10

- 3rd Place £5

To allow fair play, users can only be top 3 once per quarter (3 months). This allows fair play to other members and means there will be 9 different winners! There can be more conditions added to prevent cheating etc... 

Not only will it encourage more members to help, it will also make those that are not so techy to do some research to help find a solution for others. In this process the forum members become more knowledgeable; in future the knowledge may help them sort out their own problems.

Plus! the hit and run will hopefully fall dramatically.

What would be helpful is some way to identify questions that have not been answered yet, this would save having to wade through lots of threads, as sometimes unanswered questions are some pages away from the initial screen.

Perhaps this could be added to the forum software in the form of a query which simply lists posts that have not been replied to yet.

This would also enable people to get a quicker reply to any new subject.

Keith