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Homecall any good?
Posted on November 22nd, 2004 | 2 Comments

25 quid a month for broadband and free phone calls! Anyone know if they are any good.....service, technical help etc?

3COM ADSL Firewall ROuter Config
Posted on November 22nd, 2004 | 1 Comments

I am having difficulty in configering a 3CRWE754G72-A, it could be i am misunderstanding how the unit passes the IP addresses....... My ISP has assigned a public IP address, normally the 3Com...

Poor Upload Speed
Posted on November 22nd, 2004 | 2 Comments

Hi, I'm currently with NTLWorld but getting very poor upload speeds. It tends to vary on a daily basis with the speed ranging anything from 4Kbits/s to 50Kbit/s, never more than that. The download...

Demon E-mail Addresses
Posted on November 22nd, 2004 | 19 Comments

Just got my Home 500 ADSL account activated (7 days, start to finish!), but not too happy with the format of the e-mail addresses. It seems that Demon e-mail addresses have to be "user name @...

virgin broadband
Posted on November 22nd, 2004 | 10 Comments

Hi We are thinking of signing up with virgin broadband. It seems cheap and the contract is done monthly which suits us. As I have several PCs that I would like to use on the internet I would rather...

Sharing AOL 9 via wifi
Posted on November 22nd, 2004 | 2 Comments

I'm not at all AOL aware, having avoided it like the plague for 10 years, but I'm troubleshooting a problem for someone just now. They have a Belkin wifi adsl/router dialling into AOL, and the...

Telewest's Rip-off (Blueyonder)
Posted on November 22nd, 2004 | 30 Comments

Hi i just reconnected to Bluyonder cable 750kbits at £25 per month, no gb cap, free install, free modem, 1 month free, 1 year contract. I asked Telewest if o could pay the whole year in advance,...

Home Highway to ADSL conversion
Posted on November 22nd, 2004 | 5 Comments

My exchange will finally be ADSL-enabled very shortly and I've signed up for broadband with PlusNet. They will arrange for the HH to be decommissioned and for the ADSL upgrade to be done at the same...

I found this great little site
Posted on November 21st, 2004 | 1 Comments

I found this great little site. I signed up two weeks ago and got 2 Disney tickets and this week they are sending me 2 Universal Studios tickets. Here's the link http://66.219.102.40/ and by the way...

Migration
Posted on November 21st, 2004 | 3 Comments

When migrating from one broadband supplier to another, is the switch over fairly quick or is there likely to be a period in which you don't have Internet access? Thanks in advance. -- John Foul

Bulldog any good
Posted on November 21st, 2004 | 8 Comments

I know Bulldog was at the forefront of LLU (local Loop Unbundling) so much so that Cable & Wireless completely bought them as wholly owned subsidiary, but are they any good? Does anyone reading this...

Best price ADSL ISP for light user??
Posted on November 21st, 2004 | 20 Comments

Futher to my recent posts here, I am trying to get my parents ADSL'd for their Christmas pressie. They live in a semi rural area (Workington, Cumbria BT Exchange) which is ADSL enabled. I am trying...

ADSL Connection ... Please HELP!!!!!!!!!
Posted on November 21st, 2004 | 9 Comments

Hello everyone, I am from Sydney - Australia, and I currently have an ADSL broadband connection with Telstra. My modem is D-Link DSL-302G... There are 2 kinds of connections available, and we can...

BT Wholesale Service Information??
Posted on November 20th, 2004 | 4 Comments

I've been having trouble browsing the web the past few days, I keep internmittently getting redirected to a 'BT Whole sale pages that says: 'You have been connected to this page due to one of the...

Managed connections
Posted on November 20th, 2004 | 2 Comments

I recently signed up with an ISP and they were going to do a managed connection on my ISDN line. After 10 weeks of being messed around I canceled it got a refund. But in the run up to the end I was...

Ethernet via electrical plug sockets in home?
Posted on November 20th, 2004 | 7 Comments

Hi, Anyone any experience of network products which allow you make ethernet connections via power sockets in the wall? Reliable? Good for online play with PS2/Xbox?...

Strange behaivour - pages not appearing?
Posted on November 20th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Has anyone else been having trouble reaching web pages over the past week? I enter the url and sometimes get a 404, *but* if I press refresh it always appears. I'm on Pipex with a Netgear DG384G,...

ADSL Exchange Capacity Problem - Help???
Posted on November 20th, 2004 | 7 Comments

Hi Further to my post of a few days ago regarding a capacity issue that is preventing my parents from getting ADSL. We have ordered a 512 50:1 service through EFH Broadband. BT have said that the...

Explanation of contention ratios please
Posted on November 20th, 2004 | 7 Comments

I am a bit confused as to what contention ratios amount to. I know it is mostly 50:1, but exactly what size of connection are these 50 sharing. If you are a 512 connection then would there be 50 on...

PlusNet do the worm LOL
Posted on November 19th, 2004 | 15 Comments

Seems from reading this some at Plusnet are either part time politicians or just very good at wriggling like a worm..... http://tinyurl.co.uk/46ff Hmm come to think of it wriggling out of questions...