Hiya A friend of mine has twice lost connectivity through her ADSL line only to find that the culprit is the filter. The filters were one supplied by her original BT-install (she's at a fairly high...

Hi all Does anybody know of a laptop PC Card which has the facility of connecting an external antenna, please? I want to use the laptop in a building which has marginal signal to none, but I can get...

Hi all, Considering moving to 1Mbit SDSL and connecting to offices together using a hardware site to site VPN tunnel. So we can lose the £18kpa 512k leased line! What sort of hardware is out there...

Does anyone have any experience with Surfanytime or ADSL4Less broadband? They are both scoring pretty high on http://www.ispreview.co.uk top 10 with significant numbers of people reporting but I...

Hi A friend is getting a first PC today. I will be setting it up for her, and she will want to go on BB shortly. Which do you recommend, so that I do not get called to go around and sort out...

I'm looking to get a wireless gaming adapter for my XBox. E.g. http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JJEO/qid=1137935471/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/203-2851982-4728710 Does anyone...

We decided to opt for the BT broadband next month. After an initial online enquiry we received this summary: "Our initial test on your line indicates that you may be able to have BT Broadband with...

A colleague has just bought a Linksys WAG54GX2 SRX Modem Router and asked me to help him set it up on his XP Home machine. Could someone point me towards the appropriate settings for both the router...

Hopefully someone will think this is a totally silly question but I've had a bit of a mental block.... Basically my other half and I have laptops each. We also have a (new) broadband connection with...

A successful resolution (AOL) but ..... Initial report was 'line sharing device' (DACS) but work was done and the line reported complete. Did not work at all, and went through the usual stuff; new...

Does anybody know where I can buy a wall-mounted extension (slave) box with adsl filter built in - i.e. with both an adsl and a phone socket? I can find BT master sockets that do this, and plug-in...

Hi; Reading the lists, I see there are several folks using routers to replace the BT Voyager USB modem, but are these on the £17.99/moi (SIlver) service? I tried a D-Link 904 some time ago and gave...

Can anyone help me solve this conundrum? I have a single phone line (with ADSL) running to my home, with a BT socket and phone (via ADSL filter) in the kitchen. The same line has an extension...

I need advise I'm thinking of purchasing a wireless modem-router to replace the Binatone USB modem that came when i signed up to Plusnet because i've got a new laptop with wi-fi and want it and the...

"Boss Hog" <boss.hog.news@caninegooglemail.com> wrote in message news:5l07t1596rsdtulolq80c93cv7ibqeoamf@4ax.com... Where did you test speed? Because Zen's tester is broken at the moment.

On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 18:22:53 +0000, Nigel Molesworth wrote: DSL-Warehouse just said: "The Vigor 2800VG is due in to us Friday and we should be dispatching the products on...

Greetings. I just started volunteering at an office in London with a BT Broadband connection provided via a USB modem -- specifically, it's an Intel AnyPoint DSL Modem 3240. My laptop is a...

The Access to Broadband Campaign are trying to collate data on locations that cannot receive "mainstream" broadband ie ADSL or Cable. They are also interested in locations that can't get "enough"...

Alex, Boosbeck. wrote: How would it cope with news servers like News Individual Net which automatically remove articles containing spam, viruses and anything with bad header information?. Their...

Alex, Boosbeck. wrote: The heaviest downloaders probably use commercial services from overseas. There's a dedicated alt... newsgroup for comparing binary news services already. Nice Idea, Alex,...