- newb asks - BT or plus net?
- Posted on July 17th, 2004 | 17 Comments
hi all about to sign up to broadband at home read lots of good things about plus net, but also see bt have best price at the moment plus net £21.99 per month but also have to pay activation fee...
- PlusNet dead?
- Posted on July 17th, 2004 | 9 Comments
For the last 24 hours or so I get nothing but the BT's "red screen of death" when trying to access websites using my PlusNet BB account. Initially only some websites were refused, but now pretty...
- Pipex Broadband Service
- Posted on July 17th, 2004 | 7 Comments
Going to sign up to either Zen or Pipex. Any current users out there give me feedback -- Niaz Khan
- Max simultaneous TCP connections in Win98?
- Posted on July 17th, 2004 | 11 Comments
Does anyone know what the maximum number of simultaneous TCP/IP sessions that Win98 can handle is? I'm trying to help a friend who is using AOL+very cheap router. Everything is fine, except when...
- Wireless Broadband is it better than adsl
- Posted on July 17th, 2004 | 1 Comments
The local paper Maidenhead Advertiser caries an advert by netvigator www.netvigator.co.uk to say that they are making their service available in the Thames Valley area They offer a 512Kbps wireless...
- BT DSL Question
- Posted on July 17th, 2004 | 2 Comments
I need to order ADSL to replace a service that is being ceased next month. For reasons that would take far too long to explain, the retail provider I choose must be some flavour of BT - be it BTBB,...
- DNS Problem
- Posted on July 17th, 2004 | 17 Comments
I can choose any active WEB site at random and it will appear OK in my browser except one: www.mideng.co.uk A check with a friend indicates its up and running. In DOS on my machine a ping request...
- OT: FO: Linksys Cable/DSL Router
- Posted on July 17th, 2004 | 2 Comments
On 16 Jul 2004 in uk.telecom.broadband, "Mutley" wrote: I've no idea how much it cost new, nor how much you expect to get, but would suggest you mention some minimum figure if you want no 'duff...
- Wired or Wireless
- Posted on July 17th, 2004 | 8 Comments
I'm still deciding on which broadband ISP to go with either Pipex or Zen. Zen seem to have the better Usenet server but are slightly more expensive. But Pipex do not charge an activation fee unlike...
- Newbie question re: Newsgroups
- Posted on July 16th, 2004 | 3 Comments
Hi there - our wee village gets broadband on 11th Aug and I'm thinking of going with BT - £29.99 for 1MB with 30meg/month cap. I subscribe to Easynews at the moment - is it fairly easy to change...
- BT launches best ever value broadband with price cuts of up to 25 per cent
- Posted on July 16th, 2004 | 13 Comments
BT is to slash the rental prices for its family of consumer broadband products by up to a massive 25 per cent. The price reductions, available to both new and existing broadband customers, will be...
- Need advice on setup and equipmant.
- Posted on July 16th, 2004 | 12 Comments
Current setup - BT Home Highway ISDN. Wife uses dial-up VPN to her Company intranet and email (currently through Tiscali but has been Claranet and BT Click - depends on the IT dept!). I dial-in to an...
- Recommended wireless routers for AOL broadband..?
- Posted on July 16th, 2004 | 2 Comments
Hihi, A customer of mine, against my recommendation, has chosen AOL as their ADSL broadband supplier. They wish to share their connection between the office & childrens' computers & so I have...
- BTBB > Solwise Router > can't authenticate
- Posted on July 16th, 2004 | 3 Comments
My mum recently signed up to BT Broadband - I was hoping she'd go with plusnet, but the setup fee put her off. When her pack arrived in the post, I got her to fire up my old Solwise SAR703 and...
- adsl frontplate f/s
- Posted on July 16th, 2004 | 0 Comments
if interested i am selling 3 on ebay, good for anyone not wanting loads of microfilters??? link...
- AOL in germany! 3mb
- Posted on July 16th, 2004 | 6 Comments
Just casually browsing and went on www.aol.de and there 3mbit tariff is 40euros a month which works out at £26! Sure a 30gb limit is imposed but still is hell of a lot cheaper then dsl access in the...
- [UK-Bug] News .. loads ..
- Posted on July 16th, 2004 | 3 Comments
As usual .. its been a while .. plus the wife has finally discovered the "pleasure" in shoe shopping. How many damn pairs of shoes can one woman buy ??? And why does the bloke have to carry them all...
- Netgear DG834 + DG834G: new firmware released v1.05.00
- Posted on July 16th, 2004 | 36 Comments
Released yesterday.. ---- New Features Overview, Version 1.05.00 ADSL Statistics added. Added ability to upgrade firmware remotely. Modifications and Bug Fixes, Version 1.05.00
- Does the Belkin 7630 wireless router include an access point ?
- Posted on July 16th, 2004 | 2 Comments
I'm not sure I need one but does it ? What is one anyway ?
- router / cable question
- Posted on July 16th, 2004 | 3 Comments
We're going to have ADSL installed shortly. I'm trying to suss out exactly how I can get my PC to work upstairs and my XBOX downstairs, without trailing cables around. Wireless solutions are not an...

