Thanks for all your help so far with broadband providers & modems! It's been a big help to me and I'm understanding it all more and more. So far, Pipex looks the best for me pricewise but there seems...

Any body else been contacted about going over to this within the next 5 days

Targeted subscribers of ISP BT Yahoo are starting to receive a stark warning letter from the ISP, following what appears to be misuse of the service, in sharing unreleased source code to Microsoft...

Started to get emails this morning saying they`ve upgraded my old BT account to a "new" btyahoo mail account. What this means in reality is 3 of the 4 email accounts I had are now useless. They...

Some of you with ADSL may be interested in a new marketing and commercial trial that BT are carrying out. Details are available on https://www.vizzitme.co.uk/ Its basically a webcam conferencing...

Dabs, ebuyer and Solwise are all offering 4 port ADSL modem routers at just under GBP 40 incl VAT. How on earth can they offer them so cheap? I know they are made overseas (Taiwan?) but even so. I...

Hi, A friend is considering the new BT Broadband Basic and on looking at BTs web site to see just how basic "basic" is, I notice they say it can only be used by one PC. Does anyone know is there...

Director of New Media & Technology at the BBC, Ashley Highfield has spoken today about impending broadband services from the television giant. The first services to reach broadband users will be the...

I'm about to move to a new area and I can get broadband. I've had a look on www.adslguide.org and fancy setting up with freedom 2 surf. Anybody had any really bad experiences, or anything good too...

Hi, I'm waiting for ADSL to be installed. Can you tell if anything is happening just by listening using a standard telephone - in the same way that you can hear a 56k modem establishing...

Wondering if you can get ADSL? Have a look at http://www.solo.pipex.net/availability/ I have done a check on my friends and it seems the above checker actually checks the line, rather than BTs...

I notice from previous posts that the US Robotics 9106 is pretty well thought of. I am looking at installing a wirless LAN at home and as a laptop user the inclusion of a laptop card, which you get...

Change the ethernet card and you'll probably have to go through the XP activation process again; at least I did. "Jackeline D" <jenny@privacy.net> wrote in message...

hi, im now coming up to the end of my current 12 month contract and want to switch to another provider. i have a modem already and the line is activated, is it as simple as just cancelling one and...

"Jackeline D" <jenny@privacy.net> wrote in message news:94A0CE1DAE1AE53F89A@127.0.0.1... You shouldn't need to make any windows config changes but....... As you're with NTL you'll need to register...

On the PC probably nothing. Some cable modems (mine at least) won't let you change the NIC it is connected to, so you would have to reset (or power down/power up) the cable modem. -- Ken Wickes...

What is the best peice of equipment for connecting a single pc to ADSL. I have used BT Voyager 100 - totally crap now use Connexant access runner PCI, and starting to exp. dropouts when the CPU is...

Reboots! "Jackeline D" <jenny@privacy.net> wrote in message news:94A0CE1DAE1AE53F89A@127.0.0.1...

And how exactly would he know this not having experience of any other broadband providers ?, its these kind of unimformed people that keep BT in business and give them their strangelhold of the uk...

I'm trying to enable XDMCP on Redhat 9 so that i can log in remotely from my windoze box using exceed. However despite turning XDMCP on in the gdm configuration i am unable to connect using exceed....