Living in fairly rural Scotland (well between Glasgow and Edinburgh!), BT have decided to upgrade the local exchange (Carstairs) from 4th August, despite previously laughing hysterically when I...

Hi, Anyone else getting major delays in posting to groups and disappearing messages?? Stuart.

Any help appreciated on this. I have a laptop (Centrino) with wireless B. My son visits with another laptop - wireless G card. There will in a few months also be a desktop capable of...

text-readers.news.pipex.net now faster than news.individual.net? Mail servers actually responding instantly? Huh? What next?

Here's the setup - my wife connects to BT Click (in order to get on to her company VPN) using the BT-supplied USB software and cable .(Compaq laptop). I connect to the same box, (different dialup -...

I can now get onto Pipex via ADSL but Pipex e-mail and webpages aren't working, whereas they are by dialup to a different ISP. But I don't want to disconnect the ADSL as it takes many attempts...

i live 4.8 miles from my son i can get broadband but he cant my questions are is there any wire free equiptment i can buy? can it be made hackproof ? regards steve

...... just got a letter from Virgin Broadband asking me to limit downloads to 1Gig daily. It didn't say "you must" it said "could you if you d'load a lot". But did add an "or else" though. I'm...

I friend is trying to send me email from an Orange email address in the format: - *******@orange.net It is bouncing back to him and I'm not sure if it's the firewall that is blocking this or...

I have had my bt phone line for nearly six years and just this weekend i noticed slight line noise when i listen to the dialling tone which i have never had before. I dialled up to my isp earlier...

Thanks for helping with my questions last week for my boyfriend! Onto this week's quiz... This is for my own network setup, but I'm new to all of this so any pointers would be appreciated. Is the...

Linksys wmp11 drivers Has anyone got the drivers for this card as the ones on the website are insufficient. I can't find my disk anywhere

Sorry this is Off Topic, but can anyone help? I am looking to register a doamin name (.co.uk) and would like to know if anyone recommends a good company in the UK. I don't need any webspace,...

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I keep seeing references in newsgroups to Tesco doing a £20pm unlimited broadband service...but I can't find a story about it anywhere on the web, and certainly there doesn't seem to be anything on...

Can anyone help with this problem. I've got a standard BT Broadband at home, which seems to be working fine. Broadband goes happily into the main PC (Xp Home). There's a hub supplying another desktop...

Some hope for the future in this article released at SuperComm 2004 in the States. Way off yet for UK trials I suspect, but a glimmer of...

Hi Anyone care to recommend a good wireless ADSL Modem/Router? I would need a PCI or USB wireless adapter for my PC as well....don't want to spend much...nothing fancy, just something that works and...

I have bought a 2nd hand Etec PT-3812 ADSL modem/router. Works perfectly on ethernet (I can access settings via a local webpage). But it has a USB port I'd like to use as I'm short of PCI slots and...

Hi, I'm toying with the idea of broadband, but a line check on bt.com says I'm being provided by a special fibre cable. Its a new house and it does use a fibre optic from the line box to the...