Satellite broadcaster BSkyB is understood to be planning to use up to £1bn to buy its way into the broadband telephony market in a direct challenge to the former telecoms monopoly BT. The move would...

I am moving home in a couple of weeks and will have to get ADSL (currently in a cable area so never had ADSL at home). The phone is being activated at a specific time by BT on the day we move. How...

Changed from my Speedtouch 330 to a Belkin wireless router and my downstream line attenuation has changed from 46dB (as measured by Dr Speedtouch), to 33dB according to the Belkin stats page. What...

Anyone know anything about it?

If you're on one of the following ISPs could you say whether you can or cannot access the multicast live radio streams and News 24 and could you say which ISP you're on: Service...

All ADSL packages available throughout the UK are available in NI. Look at www.adslguide.org.uk and www.ispreview.co.uk If you are looking for a local based provider then look at www.u.tv...

About a week ago I received a reply to my request whether Metronet were planning to reduce their activation fee now that BT has done so. This is their reply:- At the moment there is no plan to...

Any one else suddenly lost access to most of the interweb? I can reach: google.co.uk, tekheads.co.uk and theinquirer.net, but I can't get even to the beebs website or the main f2s site to log a...

Is this something that an ISP needs to request BT to do or is it something that the customer does by reporting a fault on BT's 151 number? A customer has a long-standing problem with broadband (two...

"if" <if@nospam.uk.invalid> wrote in message news:Xns96EDD41F880DFvtqj3@84.92.1.10... Yes. I am getting 120 kbps over a 2Mb connection with http and ftp transfers - less than a tenth of what I would...

In article <434e57d7$0$86375$892e7fe2@authen.white.readfreenews.net>, me@privacy.net says... I doubt they'll look at Plusnet ..... floundering might be attractive, but dead in the water is...

The only thing I could think of is that NetMeter does not count any overhead. I'd try another utility and see if the results tally. -- Cheers, Guy

Hi A friend of mine has NTL broadband. His NTL cable modem is connected to his single PC via the 10/100 LAN port. If he wants to share the connection over wireless does he just need a wireless...

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:38:48 +0100, Gary <postmaster@127.0.0.1> wrote: that should do 1M as its within the 60 dB BT limit and has oodles of SNR Margin. If the checker at www.bt.com/broadband says...

I would appreciate comments from users of the latest non-beta firmware for the DG834G. I want to upgrade a unit from 1.05.00 but don't want to introduce problems. Two questions for anyone with...

if <if@nospam.uk.invalid> wrote: 10^9 vs 2^30 = a factor of 1.0737 The two figures you give differ by 1.078. Does plusnet use 10^9 "Gigabytes" ?

I've been on Plusnet's 1Mb premier service for a while at £29.99 and have just ordered the 4Mb (when it's available) with a regrade to 2Mb in the meantime.... It's just come back that my line can...

Hi, I recently ordered broadband from Tiscali... they seemed to be teh cheapest around using your BT line with no download limits. So everything went well up to the point of installing my new modem...

Alex Crosby Wrote: What exactly is dual channel ISDN, and how does it wor -- Tyson

If someone has a max download connection around 122 KB/sec how do you work out what his connection speed is (eg is it 1mb, 2mb, etc)? Thanks