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Your Experiences changing ISP's

The_Pumpkin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:27:09 GMT

Hi all. Having recently changed ISP (back in april) I keep on getting bills for my old supplier (Pipex). I have rung them on four different ocassions and told them that I'm not paying the bill as Tiscali had took over the service and as far as I'm concerned I had settled up with Pipex by paying my direct debit in May. I also got an email from them last week congratulating me for choosing them to supply broadband(what a load of muppets).

Has any one else had problems changing from Pipex(or any other ISP), and if how did you resolve it??

I was issued MAC code which I did pass on to Tiscali.

I'm nearing my wits end and considering reporting them to OFCOM or Trading Standards.

Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks in advance.

BT HUb Firewall

John Cooper — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:44:02 GMT

Having problems with gaining access t on-line game tibrian sun, told need to turn off the firewall, but how?

Have got into the hub itself up what's next, any help greatfully recieved.

Is BT finally entering the 21st century?

bigdaddy — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:00:08 GMT

Up to 60meg?
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080715/tts-uk-bt-group-ca02f96.html
:hehe::hehe:

Virgin Media free speed boost.

PlaneMan — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:30:44 GMT

Just checked [url=http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/existingcustomers/faster/schedule.html]here[/url] and saw that the roll out had been completed in my area:w00t:, re-booted my modem, bingo 10Mb up from 4Mb.:D

I was happy with 4Mb, 10 Mb is awseome.

Virgin given a slap.

-Wiz!- — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:24:57 GMT

Lies about download speeds.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7483675.stm

Changing the NAT level on router for XBOX Live?

vivadave69 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:43:54 GMT

Hi everyone.

I'm on AOL B/Band, using a Netgear dg834g V3 router. Connecting using a Ethernet cable from my router to my XBOX 360.

The problem is when i'm on XBOX Live it says my NAT is set to moderate and will not connect to say Halo 3 custom games, because of my NAT settings being on moderate.

I have search through a few dozen pages on here to find and answer, also tried bungie.net, and nothing.

Is there an easy way to change the NAT setting to either LOW or OPEN?

Thanks for any help.

Viva....
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02 mobile broadband + vista

graemebillo — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:44:10 GMT

hi everyone

i have a problem with my 02 dongle.
the other day i installed avg and zonealarm, however since then it has not worked, when i plug the dongle in nothing happens but i do get a message when starting vista saying 'a program has failed to initilize' it is definiately the 02 software as nothing else is faulty. i have uninstalled the software that the dongle installed but the message stays and it will now not reinstall. i have tried the dongle in other machines and it is fine, and ive taken off avg and zonealarm but still no joy.

any help anyone can provide will be great.

thanks in advance

ps. Hope this all makes sense

problems listering to 96k streams on laptop over three hsdpa

dj-toonz — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:50:08 GMT

Hi all, just got myself back on the net again after a few months, using the £49.99 three e220 hsdpa modem, what the problem is, i can only stream shoutcast stations on my laptop at 24k AAC+, i've managed to get 96k streams a couple of days back for a full day then every 60 secs or so now it breaks up, but the funny thing is, if i take the sim out of the usb modem & insert it into my HTC tyton II pda & open up resco radio & tune into the same station, i can stream the full 96k stream's no problem, in the same area's where i use the laptop, funny. the speeds i'm getting where i am from three are 2.8megs, is there any differnce using hsdpa via a laptop & using it via a pda? the laptop i've got is a dual core 2gig, 120gig sata 15.4" widescren,4gig of ram, running vista premium thx

AOL are blocking access to Be

Tippon — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:41:37 GMT

Ok, I remember someone posting about this a while back, and stating that Be are looking into it.

I've always been able to access www.bethere.co.uk with no problems at all, until they announced that they are going to be enabling my exchange. All of a sudden, their site is unreachable from any of my systems...

What do I do about this, and how do I contact Be to let them know?

Thanks guys :)

BT Total Broadband - new Usage Allowance limits from 1st July 2008

Computer Dave — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:04:15 GMT

Hi guys...thought I might post regarding this

http://bt.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/bt.cfg/php/enduser/cci/bt_adp.php?p_faqid=10495&cat_lvl1=346&p_cv=1.346&p_cats=346

Looks like you guys on Option 1 & 2 get your cap limit doubled - bearing in mind that if you go over it increases to 60p per GB ;)

With this in mind I've now downgraded to Option 2 (from Option 3). I was paying £24.99 a month but I have just renewed by broadband contract with BT and I asked what savings can you do for me etc (was Option 3 unlimited)...I was amazed as the operator offered me £14.99 per month if I stayed/renewed for 12 months! Great news for me as that's a tenner saved a month! Plus also my phone calls are now free after six on evenings and weekends (as previously advertised) - something which I though BT would automatically activate on all landlines - err no...

I know BT are hit and miss with most people, but I've had less hassle with them compared when dealing with Tiscali, AOL and Talk Talk for other people's broadband problems...

Proof that Virgin target certain traffic?

asininity — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:31:58 GMT

Disclaimer: All files I have downloaded are legal - as some will know I like Linux etc and thats what I've been downloading.

I recently renewed my contract with virgin for one year and also upped my speed to 10 megs which I told was what I'd actually get since its cable and not a phone line. I can say that this is what I get, barring what is being discussed in the other thread about virgin, which I'm not very happy about. I renewed because on my phone line I'd only get a max of 4.5 megs.

Anyway after a couple of weeks at my new speed I started noticing something. Mainly that when I was downloading via bit-torrent that my connection ground to a halt to the point where I couldn't even load some web pages whilst my client was running. If I stopped the client everything went back to normal.

I rang virgin media about this "problem" because I thought it might be a fault only to be told it was down to traffic shaping, which didn't add up. I pointedly asked them if they targeted certain applications such a bit-torrent because I only experience problems when using bit-torrent. They denied this and again fobbed me off with traffic shaping so I left it at that.

That is until I started my experiment 10 hours ago. Firstly what I did was download a lot of stuff, this was just to max out my download limit for the day (I think is about 1 to 2 gigs) which apparently doesn't exist what with my account being advertised as unlimited. At this point my connection is either halved or quartered. On a 10 meg connection browsing the web is still a doddle even with quarter speed, or so you would think.

Currently I am downloading all the FreeBSD ISO's via a directed download from their download site; thats 6 ISO's of about 500 megs each, all of them are downloading at about 80 to 100 kB/s (some above some below at times) which is excellent considering my connection has at the least been halved. Good on virgin.

No not really because a more reliable way of downloading large files like that is with bit-torrent (deluge my client of choice). I'm only downloading one file at the mo in deluge and due to the very few number of peers it is only coming down at 10kB/s at the most even before I reached my download limit. To be absolutely sure I capped the download and upload limit to 5kB/s respectively.

So we have a bit-torrent download and upload of 5kB/s a piece which shouldn't hamper in any way the other 6 direct downloads. In fact what happens is those other 6 downloads ground to a halt altogether sometimes I get 1 to 2 kB/s wow! And I have trouble browsing the web. As soon as I stop the client the speed of the 6 direct downloads shoots back up and I can browse the web at full speed again. I have done this many times all with the same result.

I changed client to Transmission and the same thing happens this time I set the download to unlimited on a torrent that has lots and lots of peers (Ubuntu), you would expect this torrent to come down very fast and hamper the other downloads. What actually happens is it comes download at 1 to 2 kB/s and still hampers the other downloads and web browsing.

The above happens consistently every time I start bit-torrent downloading.

Conclusion:

Virgin are not only targeting specific traffic above other traffic, they are also crippling the whole internet connection of anyone who is using the associated software. Thats a good way of stopping people using bit-torrent and will probably move the pirates back to the newsgroups (while they still have a contract with virgin).

They can get away with targeting bit-torrent because there are very few legal uses for it, I bet they wish they could target direct downloads just as efficiently.

Virgin have lost a customer at the end on this contract, and I haven't even mentioned Phorm.

Speeds

graphicartist — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:19:55 GMT

I live in a rural location, the exchange is about 2 miles away. I get consistent 1.8Mbs download speeds at my desk using either broadband over mains or wireless. I have both in different parts of the house. So I called BT to find out what they think I should get, they said 5 Mbs after doing a test to my number. What can I do to verify their claim? Where does all this speed go? P.S. I checked the router output using an ether net cable, still 1.8!

Cheers

Graphicartist
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three.co.uk mobile broadband

Spedley — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:04:25 GMT

Is mobile broadband any good from three.co.uk?

I have a contract phone from them and that entitles me to half price mobile broadband.
I don't need it but it would suit my mother-in-law perfectly. 1GB monthly allowance, no cables, and no phone supplier change, all for £5 per month.

Is there a cheap source of modems or do you have to get one from three.co.uk (£50 pay as you go or free with 18 months contract)?

Vista sp1 borked my cable connection!

Drifter — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:55:49 GMT

After installing sp1 my computer seems to have lost its internet connection (it was totally fine before).

The pc uses an ethernet connection to the wireless router etc. but now the only way I can get online is by plugging in a usb wireless adapter and connecting via the router.

Any ideas about how I can re-establish the connection as the pc now fails to detect anything other than the wireless one.

Many thanks

virgin media

turner74 — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:03:55 GMT

My brother phoned me this afternoon telling me he has had a letter from virgin media saying something along the lines of due to heavy users traffic shaping is coming into effect from 10 am.Anyone else on virgin bb heard anything about this

is your broadband being throttled ???

jody! — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:37:56 GMT

found this handy site, which tests if your bittorrent is being throttled by your isp

[url]http://broadband.mpi-sws.mpg.de/transparency/bttest.php[/url]
tried mine virgin 4mb and apparently it's not ???

welcome to skys DLM

garyhopkin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:00:27 GMT

If anyone is with sky broadband and suddenly found their download speeds have been crippled recently thats all thanks to skys "optimization" of customers lines called DLM.

You are not made aware of this happening,not given an option to opt out,and reading around the net there are a lot of unhappy people.

This initially lasts for 8-10 days,but in my case,and many others CAN go on for longer.

I initially went with sky because @ £10/pm it was cheap,but after many months of having to deal with tech support morons i have decided to throw the towel in and pay extra for another ISP and hopefully will get treated as a paying customer now.(id cancel the sky tv too but my missus would have a fit)

Sorry for the rant,but hopefully this post can be useful if any sky broadband customers post here asking why their line is all over the shop.

Has BT got me by the balls? Isn't this a monopoly?

andydods — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:41:13 GMT

My son has moved into a house in Manchester, with his GF and baby. In order to keep in touch I thought I would get a phone line and BB for them. TalkTalk package at £20pm sounded reasonable, including line rental. However, here is the rub.

They have wires into the house, but no active line. TalkTalk have said that they need an active line, which means getting BT to activate it on their contract, then terminating it to switch to TT, with a cancellation fee of £70+. I have even read on t'web of people being charged £160ish for termination of contract.

I don't mind paying a reasonable fee for all the paperwork and whatever an engineer needs to do to reactivate the line (put a check in the tickbox on his terminal?), £20-30. But it is ludicrous to be charged £70, and why can other providers not activate lines, even if they have to go through BT themselves? Is Ofcom looking into this?

Has anybody any cheaper way round this for me?

Useless Upload Speed

Caroline5 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:59:55 GMT

I wonder if anyone could help with this weird problem. My ISP is NDO, and I am on their 2Mb package. I live 3Km from my exchange in Cumbria, which means that my download speed is never brilliant, 965kbps being about normal. This doesn't bother me, though, as it is adequate for my needs. What is troubling me at the moment is the absolutely atrocious upload speeds I am getting. This morning, for instance, the BBMax speedtest showed my upload speed to be only 44kbps! Yesterday it was even worse than that. This has been going on for several days now and, as you can imagine, it makes using the internet almost impossible.

Checking my router stats this morning gave me the following:

Downstream noise margin 8db (this fluctuates, and is often better than this, can be up to 13db)
Output power upstream 12db
Attenuation downstream 49db

Upstream noise margin 20db
Output power downstream 16db
Attenuation upstream 29db

Speeds: Download 965kbps Upload 44kbps

I am using a ZyXel 600 router supplied by my ISP

I had problems last year with continual re-synching and disconnects, but they were solved when BT suddenly replaced all the phone cables in our area, and everything has been good until the past week or so, apart from occasional slow downs during school holidays and weekends, but as I live 3Km from the exchange I accept that. I just do not understand why my download speed should be acceptable, but my upload speed is almost non existent. I don't think the problem is any of the obvious things, such as filters, because the download speed isn't affected. My husband seems to think the problem is likely to be at the exchange end of things, but there is no real way of knowing.

I expect I will eventually have to phone NDO technical support, and they are very good, but I hate doing it as I always feel like an idiot. If any of you knowledgeable guys could give me a clue as to what might be going on before I have to do this, it would help me tremendously.

Thanks.

O2 Joy

Hyperion — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:30:07 GMT

After reading the "Tiscali Frustrations" can I relive my experiences with O2. After getting the MAC code from Virginmedia(NTL) I signed up for O2 on the 29th April. They informed me of all developments both via e-mail and mobile phone text including telling me the day that the broadband package would arrive and giving me the option of changing the day to suit me. However as planned the package arrived last Tuesday with a date to go live with them yesterday. Again as planned all went well and yesterday afternoon my account became active. So far so good with no hitches at all. I then set up four e-mail accounts, which although is a lot more work than with other providers, went smoothly enough. More importantly I got my Linksys AG241 to work rather than using the supplied Thompson affair after checking in the O2 and Bethere forums. Better still the speed of the broadband has become faster relatively speaking compared to Virginmedia especially in the normal after school slowdown. So the only problem I had was trying to change my log-in details on this forum, which sadly went south due to me not paying attention properly. So being an O2 mobile user I now get a faster connection speed for a tenner less a month. Lets hope it carries on as good as this.:D:D

AOL Connections probs

johnbarry — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:07:01 GMT

Is anyone have problems with AOL connection (maybe you are but can't get on to see this?)

All the lights are on on my router, but no connection is available. I thought it may be my router, so I reset it and still the same.

I changed to my BT Voyager 190 and it connected, this makes me think even more it's the router. I tried again with the router (no go) I tried again with the Voyager no go with the same errors.. Then I tried again with the Voyager errors but then it connected (now on)

I had trouble this morning, then with no alterations it connected ok with the router.

I am wondering if it's down to AOL, before I bin the router.

Edit:

I went into AOL Live Help, 40th in the queue (so that says it all) I asked a simple question "is there a problem with AOL" many beating around the bush questions (I won't bore you) 30 miniutes later I got.

Please note, that at the present moment, we are experiencing a temporary fault with our service. We have a dedicated team of expert technicians working to resolve the issue. Please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused.

I can no longer access some websites

Rockonbazza — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:33:30 GMT

I have found that I can no longer access certain websites I used to. For example, amazon.co.uk, play.com,woolworths,gala bingo etc. The search engine just seems to hang, and it takes forever for the google progress bar at the bottom of the window to progress..it usually does about 4, or 5 bars which takes quite a while and then just seems to sit there, getting no further. I usually give up waiting and exit out of the screen.

I can access however Game,HMV,PC World,Gamestation,Ebay,Phones 4 u, just to name a few for example, and can access these quickly with no problem as normal.

I did have a virtumonde virus the other day and I believe I have got rid of it,(using f-vmonde to get rid of it), but SPYBOT did pick up virtumonde virus as well later on. I have ran SPYWARE DOCTOR, SPYBOT, and MCAFEE and none show any more viruse/malware (apart from the odd low level threat adware type file which I delete.). When the virus was located by SPYBOT, there were 5 infected files, and spybot deleted 3 but said other 2 in use, so I deleted them manually. Perhaps this is the problem? the 2 files were registry files..one was named similar to - hkey local machine \software\microsoft\currentversion\explore\browser\helper objects\(9f40faf-2286...etc.. and the other was - hkey local machine\software\classes\clsid\(94f0fafa-2286-4748-ace243a7f57e(64bit)

I have tried accessing the sites with spyware doctor, and mcafee firewall disabled, still no luck. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling IE7 and also messed around with the security settings on IE7 but still no luck. Did a ping test, but a lot of the tests come back timed out...4 packets lost etc....but some work...micromart ping test works fine for example, so the ping test indicates there is a problem somewhere...

Can anyone help??? Apart from reformatting my c drive etc, not sure what to do. Thanks.

Problems changing ISP's

The_Pumpkin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:12:12 GMT

Hi all, I recently change ISP from Pipex to Tiscali(yes I know they are one and the same), anyway Tiscali went live on the 30th of April which was 9 days before the suggested date they had given me. Right here's the problem, I recieved an email about 3 days ago from Pipex telling that they are taking £19.99 for my broadband subscription. I think this is for last months usage, but I never used their service last month(f**king b*st*rds). So i emailed them back to that the service had been cancelled and I got a snoty reply telling that they couldn't discuss my account because I failed to supply username/security details, but why should I provide such information for a service that I'm not using and have no intention of ever using again. So I decided to send them the email from Tiscali confirming that the service had gone live. Needless to say I haven't heard anything back from them yet. This is so annoying. I thouhgt the MAC code was suppose to tell ISPs when the service has been switched over?? I had a similar problem when I moved from AOL, but I didn't notice them taking money out of my bank until they had been doing for 5 months, to which they blamed Pipex for not using the MAC code and they only gave half my money back which really cheesed me off.

Has anyone here suffered similar problems?? I would like hear how they were resolved. Maybe we should lobby OFCOM to get things a bit easier when changing ISPs??

Cheers for listening/reading.

Broadband speed, could this be a problem day.

Huckster522 — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:29:04 GMT

Hi folks,

Just like to share a picture i took, as i really could not believe it.

I had just started my new contract with sky on their Mid package (8mb) on the 12th may and thought i would checkout my download speeds on the morning of the 13th may and got a big suprise.:D

Unfortunatly it has never been that fast again only hitting the 6'600 mark.

still was good on the day.

Huckster

Buffalo WHR-G54S

Biker020991 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:09:59 GMT

Ok.

I recently just got hold of this buffalo router, and i'm having trouble setting it up for ADSL.

I assumed i could connect both to power, Set up one LAN cable from the router to the ADSL modem, ADSL cable from the telephone line to the modem, and one LAN cable back from the router to the computer, and that was it....

BUT apparently not. it doesen't seem to work like that, anyone know what could be up? :(

Orange problem

Bobduk — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:03:27 GMT

Could anyone help me please? I have Orange broadband which most of the time works fine but some times when I switch on the computer there is no connection to the internet then I have to keep switching on and off until it connects. I use windows XP and there is a connect to option from the start menu but when I click on this all I get is my old dial up options. I am thinking that there should be a connect to Broad band option in there if so how do I set it up manually. I have a orange Livebox which is plugged into the computer directly and two laptops connected by wireless. The setup cd that came with the livebox did not work very well and got things working more by luck than any thing so I am a bit reluctant to use it again. The orange help pages and email help have not been of any help so before ringing them at 50p a minute I thought I would see if any one on this forum could help. Tanks

is ISP messing with my ports?

luigiUK — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:32:31 GMT

i need 3 ports open (udp) for a game i play online, up till a month ago my buffalo router did that fine - then even though the web interface reported the ports were open my port tester didnt and shields up reported them stealthed, thinking it might be the router i tried my old 3com - same thing....

is this my ISP (talktalk) messing with my ports - is there any software i can use to find out? ermm dont ask me to ring technical help, that would be frustrating (the polite word)

Sky broadband problem

sirichmond — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:28:04 GMT

Post for a friend with Sky broadband, he has been on phone to them today for an hour but no joy. Basically when he goes to connect he gets an error message as follows "ADSL line failure, line not physically connected". To me it sounds like a BT problem any ideas guys.

Cheers

Firefox 3 RC1

fiesata — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:16:47 GMT

Downloaded Mozilla Firefox 3 RC 1....
and am already feeling very comfortable with it - seems like there is a noticeable increase in speed and some very handy features like:

#Malware Protection: malware protection warns users when they arrive at sites which are known to install viruses, spyware, trojans or other malware

#Anti-virus integration: Firefox will inform anti-virus software when downloading executables.

# Star button: quickly add bookmarks from the location bar with a single click; a second click lets you file and tag them.
# Tags: associate keywords with your bookmarks to sort them by topic.

A full list and other information can be found here

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0rc1/releasenotes/#whatsnew

..........and you can download here

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

Got to say Microsoft has a long way to go with IE to make it anywhere near as good as this:)

PlusNet... Heard of them?

MartenReed — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:16:50 GMT

Getting sick to the back teeth of my schizophrenic connection, so I'm looking at others.

PlusNet caught my eye with their "we're fer gaimerz lulz" attitude, and £40 of free GAME vouchers (woo!), but a sort of low download limit (10GB, although extra is 30p a month per gig).

Has anyone heard of them, and if so, are they any good?

vodafone at home.

bassist53 — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:00:39 GMT

Hi all,

Thought I would share this with you. I had my broadband disconnected March 2007 when I was with Pipex Homecall. The line at that time was limited to 512kb despite paying for 2MB.

I have only just finished building the new system. I contacted BT they wanted £25 to reconnect so having looked at Vodafone they said they could do this and as I went wireless paid for the wireless router and first month a total of £50 to get connected.

They also pay your line rental and its unlimited talk any time for up to one hour all for £25 a month or £35 if you don't have a mobile contract with them.

Kept me up to date all the way through from taking the order to completion.

I was quoted a speed of 6.5mbs on my line, I am getting 6.4mbs.

That's good enough for me but makes me wonder if Vodafone can do how come Pipex couldn't.

Connection disconnects after 10 mins

Matt — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:25:59 GMT

We've just got our broadband activated after moving house and for some reason it keeps on disconnecting after about ten minutes. Any ideas on what's causing it?

Thanks

Tiscali Frustration!

-Wiz!- — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:32:38 GMT

Early in march I signed up for the broad band package with free wireless router. My line initialization date was the 2nd April. By this date I had received nothing. After a call to them I was told the router would be sent immediately. Yesterday I received a usb modem!

I can't seem to get through on the phone lines and the customer complaints e-mail address is invalid!!!

Can't connect to net

poscochubb — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:49:28 GMT

A Toshiba laptop running Vista.

I can ping the router and bbc.co.uk/google.co.uk as well as receive Emails through Windows Mail. However I can't connect to the net through either IE7 or FF2. I can't even browse to the router's page.

I've turned off the firewall, but still can't get a web page to load.

I've done a system restore, and still no joy.

Any ideas?

Wanadoo dsl

tadaska — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:49:45 GMT

Hi,

Could anyone help me with router set up for wanadoo broadband please?

My neighbourgh has a usb speed touch modem but has had no internet for a couple of weeks now.

I want to try my router for his connection but don't know what setting to use, all he has is a username and password.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thank you

Mozilla Firefox

shuggie — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:06:24 GMT

Hi all, just gone back to BT, and after a struggle with the Technical Help line to get the router working had to use Firefox as Internet Explorer wouldn't cooperate. Now the mouse pointer moves like it's stuck to the screen, and even typing I'm words ahead of it (using 2 fingers) Is it always this bad?....IE was like lightening to this thing......:angry:
Think the Fox has been hit by a car....:cool:

New Connection

gary-donnelly — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:49:05 GMT

Hey all, it has been 5 long years since I have had my own internet connection at home and things have moved on since I wast last online.

I have checked out the deals and the 2 that seem 'okay' are the tiscali and BT. Both are approx £8 for the first few months then go up to about £15 (can't find any cheaper). I would like wireless and so the free routers provided is a must, however, I have heard that the BT's home hub is a nightmare and should be avoided. Does anyone have any experience of this or do you think it the hub would generally be okay.

My needs are modest, probably weekend surfing, a little during the evenings and downloading would be minimal - the odd music track or game demo.

Your thoughts would be very welcome.

broadband in area's

w3l54666 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:28:54 GMT

i am wanting virgin broadband is there any way of finding out when they will be up in certain area's?? i looked on their website and found nothing, i found if i could have it now but not for in ther future.

any help my friends?

I want to change Provider

columbo77 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:08:16 GMT

Having trouble posting again??? Please see below.

[quote]

Hi Guys

I am at the moment with BT Broadband and I have just managed to clear my Bill so I can start to look for another provider.

I have been on the most expensive package since before they supplied the Home Hub ( I have my own router and hub) I pay £24.99 BT say my line can only support 2mb (despite them selling me a more expensive package over a year ago (8mb but they said I could get 4mb!!)

I have complained to BT several times about the speed of my line as I am restricted at peak times due to being a high user, yet my speed always seems to be slow! I am getting tired of it.

I went on the Tiscali page last night and they said they could offer me 4mb?????

What I want to know is who offers the best package for a high user. So I can get my connection sorted out?

Thanks for looking, Columbo

[/quote]

Weird connection problem

spike09 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:51:24 GMT

I cannot connect to the internet downstairs but can upstairs, same crappy greenfrog modem in both instances. If dave reads this i know USb for peripherals ethernet for comms. But using the gf is easy as it does need the house cabled up or a power supply moved around the house. will try a new filter down stairs and see if i can find a new cable. Any suggestion gratefully received :)

EDIT partial resolution new filter and cable no joy, but the line that feeds upstairs is a long one and got it connected downstairs.I doubt H will approve of the cables everwhere though ;)