Hey, I live, according to samknows 1.52km as the crow flies from my exchange. My line has a downstream attenuation of 36.5 and a SNR of 28. Would this be good for 8Mb? Cheers Dan

Hi All, I was talking to someone today (having trouble connecting a Belkin router etc) who sugggested they were subscribed to AOL but over NTL cable? At first I thought they were confused ('users'...

Hi all, I have been an NTL customer for a goood few years (pay dial up, included dial up, 150k bb, fre u/g to 300k bb) now and have been pretty happy with them so far. I was offered the 'free' u/g...

Leaving PlusNet wrote: Most probably snowed under by the demand... Tiscali don't support migration (yet?) hence the absnce of MAC's & who am I to comment about PN dirty tricks (they still haven't...

Hi, I am with Plus.net on the broadband plus package at £14.99. All is well but I notice that all my p2p downloads are running at a maximum of 10 KB/s. I knews there about these restrictions but i...

Hello all, My BT Broadband internet connection keeps dropping at regular times, then reconnecting a minute or so later. I started to keep a note of the times and noticed it appears to happen at the...

I've had it with Plusnet, its been ever changing T&C's the last 6 months, sometimes I never got the emails advising they were changing, just heard by word of mouth ... Today they did email me and...

On 24 Sep 2005 11:16 GMT, "Leaving PlusNet" <leaving@crapisp.con> wrote: Well the moderators cannot easily do anything about getting a MAC, and nor can the bulk of CS staff, AFAIK, because it...

In article <43353594$0$73632$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net>, leaving@crapisp.con says... Plusnet, dirty tricks? Perish the thought... :-/

Hi, Thanks for all the responses from my last post on speed restrictions on the Broadband Plus package. I decided to pay the extra £5+ per month for premier which I got late last night. Have to say...

Im getting a DNS error when ever I try to get my Pipex email (Its a BB account) on my Samsung D500. I've made sure that the username/password, pop/smtp is setup. Any ideas? -- Many thanks. Email is...

Can anyone point me in the right direction as to the cost of getting BT to move & replace a master socket with a filtered one. Has anyone had it done? Its only about 30 to 40mins worth of work plus...

A friend in a nearby village has been refused ADSL by BT on technical grounds. He got the impression that this was a village-wide problem, but cannot get a clear explanation of what the problem...

Just posted on the off-chance that someone inventive with more skills than me might have invented such a thing! Has anyone mechanised a way of parsing a Clara mail log and selecting particular lines...

i have to rejig some of my wiring boxes to ADSL use. they are hardwired so i need to rejig my wiring so as to get my filter first in line . there seems to be only 3 wires that need changing, orange,...

Hello, I am trying to connect to the Internet using a Netgear DG834 and BT Business broadband. Story so far goes ..... 1. My son in law can attach his laptop to the router and he gets onto the Net.

Anyone had any luck witht the unannounced/find it yourself speed upgrade? I see some people had to give them a kick for the upgrade process to work after they applied, as I did months ago for the...

My Belkin ADSL Modem Router has given up the ghost (possibly power supply), so which make/model do you guys suggest?? Best regards Bob

I'm contemplating a leap from cable to adsl, but could use the group's advice on microfilter positioning. The house has a fairly extensive set of phone extension wires, which come to a common point...

Having waited ages for my regrade to happen, I got an email today from Pipex to say that my line will not support 1Mb. I have some figures from my router and I was hoping if somebody could tell me if...