Well I finally got t'broadband today. However it's not been without problems. My WiFi card is late in the post so I've had to bodge together a 10m cable with some old telephone wire and sellotape....

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/28/bulldog_adsl/ looks like i could be dumping ntl by the end of the year.

It mentions C&W on here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/broadband/info/multicast.shtml#hook10 Will that mean that Bulldog do support multicasting because C&W own Bulldog? Or is C&W a separate ISP from...

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Announcement Raised 25/10/05 at 13:00 Announcement Updated 25/10/05 at 13:11 Report: It may not be possible to login to the mailservers at present, and there may also be problems reaching certain...

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Nothing much to say: the Tiscali servers are working, but there seems to have been no connection to rest of Usenet since around 17:40 UTC Sunday. I notified Tiscali yesterday; no response.

Hi My dad's running both his computers through this router for internet access no problem.. but everything we try to get the two machines talking to each other (eg for printer sharing) fails...