Short day for news today ... A number of broadband subscribers of ISP Virgin.net have recieved a stark warning about their historical usage of the service. Read more @...

Just the one tonight .. Broadband internet access for UK Sky Digital satellite subscribers is to become a reality with the announcement of a deal between two of Europes largest satellite &...

According to http://www.ispreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?id=EpZppAyAyZBygpDYUZ Looks like a 5GB weekly limit - I can't find anything on Virgin's site about this but do note that they are...

* Martin wrote: I don't know. But the general answer is, I think, that what you should do as fast as you can is wrest control of the domain from them, and then either run it yourself or give it to...

I don't know if this will be of interest to anyone but BT will no longer be selling the BT DataStream Home from tomorrow to ISP's Only the DataStream "Office" version will be available in future for...

Peter <z123@nospam.com> wrote: Active-x is a real security risk. It's saying not only that you trust who signed the control, but you trust them to make 100% bug-free code. If someone finds an...

David Marsh wrote: 5GB per week - more than the average user but easily reachable if you're in to file sharing or streaming video. They've been having loads of problems over the last 4 months and...

----- Original Message ----- From: "David Marsh" <use-userid-in-sig@127.0.0.1> Newsgroups: uk.telecom.broadband,uk.net.providers Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 6:22 PM Subject: Connecting to...

David Marsh wrote: I don't suppose you could tell me where you found this could you? :) The reason the majority of ISP have high cancellation fees is that BT charges £58.75 for the ISP for each...

In article <52cesvovjh9gj3fqt7uasqr6bkudbil60u@4ax.com>, Peter <z123@nospam.com> wrote: Put it behind a web proxy, running on a distinct machine (any old tat will do: I use an old 233MHz laptop with...

Hi David, Every ISP has different forms of usernames and passwords. If you have not had any contact from Virgin. I would call them. Try get it sorted over the phone. Clearly from the test you have...

I have a Conexant based Etec Moder Router (5810), and have a PS2 connected to it via a 5 port switch....my question is, instead of forwarding all the appropriate ports for network games, can i just...

On some websites (yahoo) the fonts have recently become very small, they didn't use to be like this, just wondering if there's any way to make them bigger as I cant read it or find it very...

Anybody care to recommend one? It's got to plug into a port of an Alcatel Speedtouch 510 4 Port router; *not* the ethernet port of a computer - as so many have as a requirement. I was hoping to pay...

I'm about to go ADSL broadband and am tempted to take the ISP's modem package, on the basis that it would probably simplify matters in the event of problems in the initial setting up. However I am...

My new house has 3 telephone points of which only one will be used for ADSL & DECT phone ... do I still need to get filters for the other 2 points even though they won't be used ??

http://www.btofaq.net/articles/sstatus1.html Its been like this for weeks! Are the servers really this bad? Or is the btoFAQ's monitoring system pants?

I'd be grateful for some advice as to the situation when setting a new PC up with NTL stand alone modem broadband. I have NTL stand alone modem on my present PC - is it straight forward when...

I am in Glasgow and am using Pipex, who were pretty good until they lost all my emails at the start of their recent troubles three weeks ago. I had recommended them to a friend - but advised her to...

Folks, My exchange becomes BB enabled in a few weeks and I've already signed up with Plusnet. Counting the days! One thing that just crossed my mind ... from what I read, I will have a fixed IP...