Well not really a whinge but I felt like whinging 
My ISP (ADSL24) has changed their wholesale ADSL supplier from Entanet to Murphx.
In general this is a good thing as my line speed has doubled... unfortunately, and this is the whinge, Ron's other alien watches iPlayer which currently thinks we are no longer located in the UK - even though various geo-ip databases list my IP correctly 
so now thanks to the BBC and the ISP and the ISP's ISP we are bereft of iPlayer and I am stuck with real life whinging.
There. I feel a bit better now. Therapy for free - just visit HF!
Ron
I am with ADSL24 too Ron and was trying to work out, in my addled lurgyfied state, what it would mean.
I doubt my line speed will double, not here in the sticks 
I daren't tell the girls, they will never come home if they think there wil be no iPlayer - errr hang on a minute 
This comes up a lot on my ISPs forums where they get a new batch of IPs which are considered to be in Uganda or something. You'd think they would have made updating the databases automatic by now.
It's a pain while you wait for them to get their finger out.
Glad it helped with speed though. When Merry said they were about to change her over I thought it could go the other way.
Can you not just get a video recorder instead and train the aliens up to record their stuff. Then no need for iplayer.
I think ISPs should be made to register IPs to the correct country before they even use them. I don't know why it is otherwise. The world is so badly organised.
It is unfair that poor old FOR has to endure real life whingeing and the Alien should be given the phone number of the ISP and call them herself. This will also train her in the hopelessness of getting help from those who should provide the help.
@furbs - the new TV actually will record automatically to our old video - no setup or anything required just bung in a record timer on the TV and by magic (and a fully connected SCART lead) the TV will send the required go and stop signals to the video; it won't record HD transmissions but it is a start
The real wonder of this is that the video is about 10 years old... and the TV was a new model (by the same manufacturer) last autumn.
Ron
I love it when the gadgets talk to each other
Not that it always works. I'm remembering the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products quote in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all" 