A friend of mine has just moved in to a property and asked BT for a new service (the outgoing person wanted to take their number with them). BT provided a new number, but I guess that means that...

Gentle uk.telecom.broadband reader, First, my apology for cross-posting to this NG. Be assured that this is a one-off. It will never happen again. My sole purpose is to draw your attention to what...

My sister has a weird problem. Her company's IT manager is looking into it but I thought I'd ask on here as well. She has conventional ADSL over a BT line, using a Netgear DG834G router. In addition...

OK, so in follow up to my own question posted earlier (cf "A tale of broadband woe"), I have looked more closely at the wi-fi option. It seems to be the best bet in my area. The company operating...

Hi guys I have 512k Freedeom2surf ADSL. My setup goes something like this: +------+---Phone +---|Filter| +------+ +--------+ +------+---x |Socket|-|Splitter| +------+ +--------+ ...

I've run the ADSL Guide speed test on three PCs I 'look after' and typically get a downstream result of about 1.5 to 1.6 Mb/s. In all three cases Noise Margin is in the 20-25dB region. Two...

Anyone having good experiences with these people? I am on 1MB and never get to download more than about 300kbps in the evenings, it was ok to start with about a year ago but i find their performance...

In the recent BT/BTY upgrade I was left behind on 1Meg because I was told my line could not sustain 2Meg. Now the checker on http://www.bt.com/broadband/ tells me the following: "Your exchange will...

Per my other post, i`m having trouble with "unable to connect to network" - which only happened after the last Steam update. It had been find for 3 years previous. -- Please add the word...

A friend of mine was scheduled to have NTL provde him with TV service and their version of broadband. I've not seen the installation or the kit, but assume he has been provided with the basics kit...

my zyxel router gives the following info: noise margin upstream: 27 db output power downstream: 16 db attenuation upstream: 29 db and noise margin downstream: 27 db output power upstream: 11 db

Since yesterday evening I'm unable to browse any web pages from home. After the usual rebooting of systems and routers and equiement, still no luck. I tried the VPN connection to the office, to my...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/09/france_telecom/ France telecom fined 80m euros for dragging their feet over LLU. If it were BT$, that would have be in the region of 8 billion pounds by...

Hi Although I am on NTL, I am trying to set up a Voyager 205 for a friend, everything works if connected using the USB port, but connecting on ethernet, nothing works, the Ethernet light on both the...

I've been eagerly awaiting broadband where I live for a good while. The local exchange was due to become broadband enabled on 28th Sept. It is a small country exchange serving less than 100 homes. I...

I am trying to help a friend get his email working and the ISP has supplied his user name and password but he is not sure of his email address How can I find out? Blair

I know they`re probably a bit long in the tooth now, they were the cheapies ebuyer had about 3 years ago... Mine has just stopped letting me connect to Steam to play Half Life after 3 years without...

Have just dumped tiscali, due to their poor line speeds at night. I hav had enough of them giving me the run around with bt coming out to m house etc,etc. Just wasting time, when they know their...

Hi can anybody please help me through the jargon and tell exactly what this means in terms of quality of my line and speeds attainable. thanks Roy downst upstrm Line Attenuaion 46db ...

The 10mb is shit its only giving me speeds of about 2mb. i was told that its my set up yeah rite thats why those complaining in the support groups are having the same problem. i am really regretting...