Hi, thinking of buying the above mentioned device from Draytek. Thought I would look at their user forums just to see how people are getting on with it. Problem is, I can only use the forums if I am...

I have been on BB for a year or so and never had to dial on the old dial up modem. I am getting a new PC but is it essential to have a dial up modem just in case as I think the old one isn't working...

Seems BT have finally gone and admited it. http://www.uk-bug.net/Article660.html Summary .. all lines upgraded to 2Mb downstream, except BT Broadband Basic which gets upgraded to 1Mb. There's no...

I have crawled over recent posting and I am sure there is someone reading this group who can answer my question. Similar ones have been posted but not quite the query I have. Basically my BT master...

Wednesday 09 February 2005, 11:15:41 United Kingdom Written by Net 4 Nowt Whilst not an unlimited bandwidth package, Freedom2Surf (www.freedom2surf.net), has today launched Connect Plus, a...

Right, opinions please, chaps. First Wanadoo BB - £18/month, 1 Mbps, 2 Gbps/month. Second, Virgin - 512Kbps, £18/month, 3 Gbps/month, no contract - it's month by month - am I right? Is there a...

Tx2 <tx2newscollection@hotmail.com> wrote: It's been reported on plusnets groups by their networking staff that 7G/month is average, so it's unlikely that any ISP will introduce capping at that...

From "BBC News" : <quote> British Telecom has said it will double the broadband speeds of most of its home and business customers. The increased speeds will come at no extra charge and follows a...

Hi Yesterday I lost my BB connection from 11:45a to 18:00p. My ISP (Businessserve) claimed to be unable to find out a reason for this failure. My home BB connection with the same ISP from a...

09 February 2005, London - Freedom2Surf, (www.freedom2surf.net) one of the UK's leading independent ISPs, has today launched Connect Plus, a 2Mb broadband package with a huge 50GB capacity allowance....

I am considering buying a Draytek Vigor 2500V and would like to know if anyone has anything negative to say about it especially with regards to port forwarding and VPN passthrough. Also, am I right...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/07/energis_bt_ofcom/ Energis has called on regulators to split BT on back of 20 years of failure to get on with providing competitive services.

I have been using the Internet for 5 or 6 years. I know extremely little about how it is supposed to work. I don't want to know. I don't need to know. All I know is that it is in a state of...

VOIP: can you ring anyone (UK)or do they also need to have it? and will you still need to pay £10.50 to BT like you do if you switch to another phone company? TIA.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/09/tiscali_hogs/ begin I wonder if he can manage another 500 postings, but without hesitation, deviation or repetition?:-) Bill

Suggestions of a good ADSL USB Modem and where to purchase from would be welcomed. Please, no comments about something else being better or info about Firewalls and Virus protection etc, etc., we...

500 Reasons not to buy Tiscali$ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/09/tiscali_hogs/ Looks like Tiscali$ don't have enough pipes to make their broadband work. They sending all the data through...

A colleague's ADSL connection seems to be desperately problematic, in that the USB modem supplied by BT Broadband keeps losing sync with the exchange, taking a few moments to regain sync before...

Hi With Plusnet announcing the reduction in price of 2mb broadband for Lite users I thought I'd try the BT availability checker to see if I could get the 2mb service. I'm currently enjoying a 1mb...

Does anyone know how I can stop a browser window opening on its own. Let me explain: I log in to my account - up comes browser home page - I do my surfing - log out so browser window closes - go...