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Broadband enabled
Posted on July 9th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Our exchange is to get broadband enabled on the 27th July - NTL say that I cannot sign up until after that date and then it could take upto 4 weeks to get connected. Is this the norm. Also we (13...

bulldog upgrade how long?
Posted on July 9th, 2005 | 2 Comments

hi i was on 2mb and being upgraded to 8mb, been cut off for 3 days now. got through to support eventually saying they will get back to me. how long does this take? im sitting in my car round the...

USB Drivers -- A curious error message.
Posted on July 8th, 2005 | 5 Comments

Since the problem seems to be associated with whether or not a phone is plugged into a particular microfilter, I suspect the microfilter is a bit dodgy, but the actual error message from the USB...

Recommend webhost?
Posted on July 8th, 2005 | 11 Comments

Can anybody recommend a webhost with approx 100Mb (or more) of space with a flat yearly fee of less than £30?

Re: Contacting Plusnet
Posted on July 8th, 2005 | 11 Comments

On 5 Jun 2005 16:41, Patrick Nethercot wrote: Some people ask questions on the ADSLguide "Message Boards" instead. You could easily sign up for a (free!) 0845 account, or sign-up for a...

DG384G bandwidth monitor?
Posted on July 8th, 2005 | 15 Comments

Please note that I need an _instantaneous bandwidth_ monitor and not a "number of bytes sent this month" usage monitor. Anyone know a way to monitor the bandwidth usage of a DG384G? It doesn't need...

Now you have it, now you don't
Posted on July 8th, 2005 | 6 Comments

My local exchange (Crossbost) was due to be enabled "by the 6th of July" all through last year, and this year. Yesterday (the 6th) came and it showed up on the BT availability checker as available....

2wire 1800hg
Posted on July 8th, 2005 | 0 Comments

melismobile was having trouble connecting to onetel on another foru using this router - heres how he finally cracked it "Success at last For anyone else stuggling more information to add t Spanna's...

Help with Onetel adsl setup
Posted on July 8th, 2005 | 8 Comments

Hi My niece has just signed up with Onetel Broadband and we have replaced the supplied usb modem with an ADSL Modem Wireless Router. We are having great difficulty in getting it to connect and have...

NTP Time Server
Posted on July 8th, 2005 | 15 Comments

I'd like to try using an NTP time server. Apparently, my router supports it. Can anyone suggest an IP of a reliable NTP timer server? Thanks

Pipex MAC Code
Posted on July 8th, 2005 | 7 Comments

I asked Pipex for a MAC code three days ago. They said they would email me it. I still haven't received it. Is it normal it takes this long? Dan

Connection problems with Speedtouch 330
Posted on July 8th, 2005 | 1 Comments

For no apparant reason the ADSL light on my Speedtouch 330 starts flashing and then I'm disconnected. I get nights when it's fine or happens maybe once or twice then I get other nights, like tonight,...

Windows 2000 and wireless networking
Posted on July 8th, 2005 | 4 Comments

Does W2K Pro SP4 ship with wireless networking facilities or do I need to install an optional component from the W2K CD or download anything? I've installed a Netgear WG311T card and the connection...

Do you...
Posted on July 8th, 2005 | 10 Comments

....unplug your ADSL router from the phone connection during a thunderstorm? I do after having lost a Pace 56K modem during a storm a few years ago. Actually it wasn't a storm as such, just a single...

PC ip download traffic monitor with email/pop-up threshold alerts?
Posted on July 7th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Can anyone recommend a simple PC traffic monitor that lets you know when you have exceeded a given download amount? Ideally: 1) I would like to set a download limit for a given time period and...

Monitoring bandwidth with Dlink DWL2000??
Posted on July 7th, 2005 | 0 Comments

I have a D-Link DWL-2000 access point and I have just downloded PRTG: http://www.paessler.com/prtg Will this work with the D-Link to monitor bandwidth use etc on the network? I have just found the...

News running slow?
Posted on July 7th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Taking an age for posts to appear in the newsgroups?

cache
Posted on July 6th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Hi I read somewhere recently that some ISP's cache internet content on their servers. I use the betting site www.betfair.com regularly and it has up-to-the-second market price information. If I...

Any VPN experts there/Linksys WAG54G
Posted on July 6th, 2005 | 6 Comments

Following lightning last week Linksys router went back to factory defaults; luckily surge arrestor on line. Have reset up, but I am having one problem with connection to my company via a VPN {using...

Metronet and Tiscali
Posted on July 6th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Hi all Do Metronet get their net access through Tiscali? Is this a bad thing, or is Tiscali's backbone network just as bad as their customer service? I'm not displeased at all with Metronet (with...