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Is this a record
Posted on July 20th, 2003 | 9 Comments

Hi all This must be one of the fastest adsl sign ups on record or do u know better. Thursday 5pm Filled pipex online forms in. Thursday 7pm got email saying my order was being attended to. Fryday...

Zen
Posted on July 20th, 2003 | 21 Comments

I note that the Zen Internet news server is once again down it beats me why they just do not dispense with it now has they have undoubtedly now proved that they are incapable of maintaining it . Rex .

OT : Nostalgia
Posted on July 20th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Just found this site whilst looking for a wav file http://www.tones.plus.com/sounds/menagerie/sounds.htm I must be getting old, i remember many of the sounds!

Broadband advice
Posted on July 20th, 2003 | 33 Comments

I'm scheduled to receive BT Broadband on 21/8. I currently have two phone lines and two ISP accounts (one with BT Internet). I'm planning on stopping my second line and cancelling both of my...

Re: Broadband advice
Posted on July 20th, 2003 | 0 Comments

In article <bfe423$b5i$1@titan.btinternet.com>, me@privacy.net (Hugh M Janus) wrote: Nice, I'm a C-Class man myself ;-) - Steve

NTL Broadband and POTS Modem?
Posted on July 20th, 2003 | 5 Comments

Hi A friend of mine has just had NTL Broadband (150k?) installed. He is not at all computer savvy but I have been able to glean that he has a new modem connected to one of his USB ports. Even though...

Re: Only 88% Max
Posted on July 20th, 2003 | 7 Comments

"Edward Holt" <edward_holt@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:3f1932da@dnews0.news.legend.net.uk... got QoS enabled ? AFAIK this uses/saves 20% of bandwidth Hope this helps Lee

OT (maybe) Need to kick start my connection
Posted on July 20th, 2003 | 8 Comments

So I get broadband (Freeserve) and all is well, adslguide tells me I'm getting 476kb/s which I'm happy with. BUT... my browser often doesn't load pages. I've tried both IE6 and Mozilla 1.4 and both...

Bulldog
Posted on July 20th, 2003 | 1 Comments

So I'm expecting to check out this ISP's website, and a late-night typo brings this shit up: http://www.buldog.com/

Microfilters not working
Posted on July 20th, 2003 | 8 Comments

I recently got broadband and have been having problems. I've tried two different makes of microfilters and both don't work You can hear the high frequencies and the connection is lost when you use...

Speech over the Internet
Posted on July 20th, 2003 | 7 Comments

Some time back, in this newsgroup I think, I picked up a simple program to allow speech over the Internet (I do not want to use Net-Meeting) but seem to have lost. Can anyone help? -- Les Desser

Blueyonder broadband/Netgear RT314 Router problems are driving me mad!
Posted on July 19th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I recently moved from Stoke Newington to Finsbury Park, bringing my home network with me. I use a Netgear RT314 Router to connect our two destop machines and the occasional laptop to our Blueyonder...

Kent(uk) broadband advice please.
Posted on July 19th, 2003 | 5 Comments

From August 28th,broadband will be available on my local exchange,so anyone living in the South-East of England who has any pro's or con's about which ISP to use for broadband,your advice would be...

PC Duo control and AOL BB settings query
Posted on July 19th, 2003 | 5 Comments

Hi, I'm not an expert at all this, but I've left my PC on at work and installed PC Duo Control at home to access it. I have a .ins program to run which I think will enable our server at work...

Re: Zen or Netgear DG814 - One of them has to go.
Posted on July 19th, 2003 | 5 Comments

In an article dated Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:47:56 +0100, made the earth move by saying...... is that it is something being done to ADSL circuits somewhere as I had the same problem with Pipex and a...

problem connecting to freedom2surf
Posted on July 19th, 2003 | 5 Comments

I have a problem connecting to the above ISP I can ping and tracert OK, but if I try to connect using the network connection it come up with error 678. I am assuming the modem is setup OK (Billion...

Re: Question about strange grey BT box...
Posted on July 19th, 2003 | 1 Comments

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:11:50 +0100, "MichaelJP" <MJP@nospam.com> wrote: Megastream or ISDN30 provision. It suggests you could have fibre - which would reduce certain installation costs with BT -...

Re: ADSL Move
Posted on July 19th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Voice in the desert: Quiet, isn't it, Les Desser? I'll be changing address soon, so I have a similar inquiry. I'd like to move to the new line, at the new address, but keep the existing ISP...

Re: Question about strange grey BT box...
Posted on July 19th, 2003 | 0 Comments

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:11:50 +0100, "MichaelJP" <MJP@nospam.com> wrote: If your new office is in Sheffield, then this circuit was a 256k leased line before it was ceased. Not quite as good as...

Broadband Installation - some basic questions...
Posted on July 19th, 2003 | 3 Comments

Hopefully someone can answer this for me: 1) I am looking to get Freeserve broadband and was hoping to plug it into an extension socket - will this be ok or will it need to plug into the...