Sooo... someone wearing an EE beanie just rang our doorbell... introduced himself as from what sounded like "E.E.B.T." and said he was here to do a quick speed check to make sure we weren't still on the "old lines" for "wifi". Apparently most people are on the new lines but maybe some of our neighbours weren't, or something. Anyway, just a quick speed test to make sure...
I'm not sure where to even start with that. I mean, let's skip over the "wifi" thing... at this point enough people equate "wifi" with "internet" that that ship has sailed, hit an iceberg, sunk, and had several movies made about it, some of them quite good, apparently.
So, is "the old lines" the copper phone lines? That seems sensible, and fibre or copper is indeed an old/vs new lines thing. So, I wonder if the obvious fibre connection to the front of the house might give anything away? Probably not. I mean, especially if "speed test" is what you're trying to leverage and "the lines" are just an excuse to do it.
Well then! Since we're not terribly concerned about "the lines", that does just leave the speed test. Of course! Please connect something I have no reason to trust to my network and do stuff with it! And then tell me that I could -- no, should! -- be getting faster 'wifi'. If only there was a broadband supplier's representative handy to upsell me on something!
But alas, we just stared dumfounded at the EE beanie and said "No." so the mystery of whether we're on the old lines and getting slow wifi remains unsolved.
I cannot stress enough how much turning up at my door with a badly articulated excuse for wanting to connect untrusted hardware to my network makes me unwilling to have anything to do with you, EE.
Or perhaps the whole thing was a scam an not a reall EE thing... but the fact I'm considering that it was 'legit' as more likely says a lot about EE's marketing.
