Hi I often read in this ng about folks checking their attenuation and wondered how to go about it?. I have a Linksys WAG54G if thats relevant?. There are options for testing in the Linksys setup...

I got an Efficient Networks 5861 router from eBay the other day so I can share my new Demon Home 2 meg ADSL connection. Problem is I can't get it to obtain a WAN IP address no matter what I...

Mail Outage Report Announcement Raised 27/09/05 Announcement Updated at 21:30 Report: PIPEX Netmail may be currently providing an intermittent or no service. Symptoms: The Web pages may be slow to...

I have just sent my brother my old Alcatel Speed Touch 510 router, but have now found that he has a cable modem and not standard ADSL. Does anyone know if he can configure this speed touch router as...

Hi, Posted on behalf of my sister who is (a) not very technical (b) struggling to connect She has just subscribed to BT Broadband. She has installed her modem, popped in a microfilter and gone off...

I am currently on a 1mb package with Talktalk. I recently applied to have it upgraded to 2mb (via TalkTalk). It was initially rejected straight away by BT wholesale, apparently without a reason. TT...

I currently have two hard drives, C and G. G is simply a backup that I now wish to reformat. Unfortunately I have check disk wanting to check it on each boot up and I tried all the usual registry...

I'm thinking of moving to faster broadband, but have no idea what speed my line can handle (Currently 512k). I have the line level stats from my router (SNR/power etc) but have no idea of what...

Have just installed SP2 at last after being warned not to do so for many months. I was very much afraid of its effects on my system, human and PC, but to my surprise it all went well, I can't believe...

I have an NTL Samsung set top box that has been working fine for many months and it is connected to a router. This morning however I discovered that my broadband connection had failed, so I tried all...

I have a friend whose ADSL keeps on dropping and I'm thinking of trying to pressure his ISP into sending out a BT engineer. His BT Voyager 105 ADSL modem is plugged into a splitter at the master...

I did a BT availability check on two phone lines in my work today (for reasons that I will explain). The two lines come from the same exchange, and are installed literally next to each other in the...

On 2005-09-27 15:52:53 +0100, Brian Morrison <scrapspam@fenrir.org.uk> said: There are no other sockets connected to this line & I tested today with nothing but a new Voyager 105 connected to a new...

Has anyone ever had any success reporting virus attacks from NTL accounts? I'm being inundated here from the same IP address (82.13.45.60) and I must have reported it a dozen times or more over the...

Are legal music downloads (as opposed to the alleged illegal P2P variety) throttled on the Plusnet 'Plus' accounts? I'm 'encouraging' my offspring to be more responsible with how she acquires her...

My new internet connection works by me plugging my RJ45 cable from my computer to a hole in the wall, ten accessing to a LAN. How secure is this method of accessing the internet? Can those who run...

User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: uk.telecom.broadband Subject: Re: Acessing Internet Through LAN (How...

User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: uk.telecom.broadband Subject: Re: Some Questions about Availability References:...

i AM ON BT BROADBAND USING THE SPEEDTOUCH ROUTER THAT CONNECTS VIA P PHONE LINE BASICLY FREES PHONE UP i HAVE JUST REQUIRED A LAPTOP AND I WOULD LIKE IT TO BE WIRELESS CAN I GET A WIRELESS ROUTER AND...

Hi Folks Can anyone tell me a reasonable speed I should expect with a `upto 2meg` adsl line with 50:1 contention ratio please?. My isp has said that I do appear to have a fault after I sent them...