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NEWS: PlusNet exposes customers' personal data
Posted on July 26th, 2006 | 0 Comments

http://www.adslguide.org.uk/newsarchive.asp?item=2743 PlusNet who operate a number of virtual providers including Force9 accidentally emailed the personal details of around 20,000 customers to...

Suitable / unsuitable phone line, what's going on ?
Posted on July 26th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi all, I am still thinking about changing ISP (see earlier query on Eclipse) and up to last week, whenever I was doing checks on the sort of speed my phone line could theoretically get up to by...

Zen
Posted on July 26th, 2006 | 1 Comments

R.Daneel Olivaw wrote: You can have a single address, or a block of 8, free of charge. Larger are also available. The only blocked ports are NetBIOS (139 & friends), so you can run smtp & www with...

MSG from Plusnet MD in full on ADSL guide is locked down
Posted on July 25th, 2006 | 36 Comments

Andrew Sayers wrote: Agreed, using a consistent name, real or pseudonym, does have community advantages. I also think it is important to be contactable which is why my "Reply to" is valid and does...

DNS failures?
Posted on July 25th, 2006 | 23 Comments

Joe Soap Wrote: . . . yes -- jannerboy

NTL 10mb Modem slower u/l than 5mb STB ?
Posted on July 25th, 2006 | 2 Comments

"Resident Drunk" <askmeforit@spam.com> wrote in message news:4im82gF4dvddU1@individual.net... | Resident Drunk wrote: | > Hi all, | > | > A few days ago I posted a message about no connection for...

Orange/Livebox question(S)
Posted on July 25th, 2006 | 7 Comments

"Yes it does. I think you might need to hold one of the touch buttons t allow intial wireless connections." I have the wireless enabled, as far as the notebook adapter, not sur if there's another...

FreeNetName - Good or Bad?
Posted on July 25th, 2006 | 2 Comments

<welly@nospam.bcubed.plus.com> wrote in message news:kngac29bkh5kpfso4ubehbva37i8civ4sh@4ax.com... : I'm thinking of moving from a sinking ISP - what are this groups views : on FreeNetName - rarely...

Nidram service
Posted on July 24th, 2006 | 0 Comments

This evening my Nildram service was up and down like a yo-yo giving different DNS every time. ADSL service was up for most of the time but the WAN connection lasted no more than 15 minutes before...

Any way to fix SNR level after router restarts?
Posted on July 24th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hello Many thanks for you who suggested the reason my ADSL wireless router was dropping the adsl link was due to the SNR settings - I've gone in through telnet and pumped it up 250%, and it stays...

Freenetname
Posted on July 24th, 2006 | 2 Comments

In message <44c3f584$0$3535$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net>, Joker7 <sat_ring@hotmail.com> writes Used them too. Good service but they were a bit of a rip off when you wanted to port away your...

FREE Linux Shells
Posted on July 24th, 2006 | 1 Comments

<myshellservices@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:1153770512.359173.78220@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.telecom.broadband.html Advertising is forbidden.

uk.yahoo.com slow?
Posted on July 24th, 2006 | 6 Comments

Jim <me@privacy.net> wrote in news:lpo9c29uad3bi1ojcmqlkv495044jct877@ 4ax.com: Yes, it was for me too... Ok now though.

Plusnet not looking good once more
Posted on July 24th, 2006 | 35 Comments

Jim Guthrie on the Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:57:49 +0100 posted a message to which I wish to reply with... Only because it's factual.

Tesco Internet Phone with router
Posted on July 24th, 2006 | 9 Comments

Dave wrote: If I recall, it's voice over UDP, so there isn't any formal session as such. However, my own firewall (pf on freebsd) keeps track of outgoing UDP packets and allows corresponding ones...

I'm Off to BT
Posted on July 24th, 2006 | 24 Comments

We Are Devo! <devo.usenet@NOSPAMgooglemail.com> wrote: I suppose it depends on your d/l needs. Personally I'm not ever going to get near the 20 gig limit, so I've not found that to be an issue. CS...

Will LLU provider improve a poor phone line?
Posted on July 24th, 2006 | 8 Comments

ato_zee@hotmail.com wrote: No it wasnt. "yes sir, we have a wide variety of phones, it comes in green, red and beige, the waiting list for installation is only nine months" Governments during...

AOL wireless router
Posted on July 23rd, 2006 | 3 Comments

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 07:06:42 +0100, gort <me@privacy.net> wrote: I got a Speedtouch 576. Ok, but only 1 ethernet port - lucky I've got a switch... That said, it seems to be a decent router,and...

Yahoo Messenger Login problems?
Posted on July 23rd, 2006 | 10 Comments

Yeah - no messenger here last night and no mail today - my husband, who has a US account can access his mail just fine - seems to be only UK accounts that are affected. It's Me wrote: They...

Router that will mix static and nat
Posted on July 23rd, 2006 | 4 Comments

In article <eI-dnX-c9uZ4yVzZRVnysQ@eclipse.net.uk>, David Wade <g8mqw@yahoo.com> writes -- Bob Geddes