Having the luxury of two phone lines, I opened a second broadband account with a non-BT ISP (cheaper and better), and now wish to cancel the redundant BT account. I followed the BT Yahoo! help pages...

Got turned down by freeserve a week ago due to line noise/quality Just had a very nice chap from BT come out and he's given the all clear after trying TWO tests- one to the socket alone, and one...

Using dialup I never get better than 33600 - and there is no DACS or anything else to cause such a slow speed - plus I would estimate I am within half a mile of the exchange. So I was very dubious...

Will Netgear ever supply a 4.9 release or is the DG814 considered "dead"?

Having a problem with XP and the Gilat software. WGW.sys is causing the machine to crash frequently. Cust Services are not interested at all, one guy says no XP problems, another says point blank, no...

I posted this on 18 November but it hasn't appeared in my download. Apologies if it appears as a re-post. I've been reading reviews and studying networking cable diagrams, now ready to go ahead,...

When my exchange is enabled early next year I am going to Zen with 8 fixed IP addresses and will use a router. To start with is it possible to use just one of the fixed IP addresses and NAT for my...

Why when sending email from Virgin it takes ages to arrive, and emails sent to msn.com or hotmail addresses don't arrive altogether? Cap Smith

Evning all, Wasn't quire sure where to post this... I would like to stop certain bits of info appearing in the headers of my newsgroup postings (IP, posting host etc). Do I change newsreader...

Just ordered BB and have been told that BT now have to test the line. What exactly do they do? Is it just a matter of how far you are from the exchange or is there more to it than that? Does somebody...

Tried to order ADSl - got told I was too far from the exchange. Except that next door has it, and these are identical houses, part of a large-ish development built at the same time, so I find it...

I have recently moved to Plus.net and within 4 hours of posting on usenet using news.cis.dfn.de, I started receiving junk email. There were 23 messages which mainly comprised the fake...

Hi - I am new to this ng but have been spending a few days reading a lot of very interesting posts and checking things out via a host of websites. At present: - I am connected to Freeserve...

I have just bought a D-Link DI604 broadband router to connect 4 PCs to the Internet. I am currently on Telewests Blueyonder network but am unable to connect to the Internet with the router. I have...

I want to get BB and seriously considering 1Mbs with Plusnet however I just checked availabilty of ADSL in my area and used the availabilty checker. The response I got was "good news i can get 512...

Hi all. A friend and I are having some problems with Plusnet. I'm running a web server and FTP server, and he's running an FTP server. My web server's on a non-standard port, and he's got IP...

Hi, This is my current situation. I have a 2nd line upstairs that is used for broadband and the normal phone line for downstairs. When we had a second sky box installed upstairs (it needs to be...

Just installed a DG834 in place of a DG814. Has anyone found any problems I need to look out for? -- Les Desser (The Reply-to address IS correct - hope Swen ignores it))

I'd like to set my router, which normally has most ports completely locked down, to let through certain requests from time to time when I am out on the road so I can effectively tunnel in to my...

Just ordered Zen 1mb and got a D-Link 604+. The manual is rubbish. Could someone point me in the direction of a good guide to setting it up with the 8 fixed IP addresses I get with Zen. I have looked...