I was setting up shared printing on a network with one XP PC (which shared the printer attached to it) and two Vista PCs (one Home Basic, the other Home Premium) which are configured to access this shared printer. The router was a Linksys WAG54G. The Home Premium PC could access the XP PC by its hostname, both for pings and for net view, whereas the Home Basic PC could not resolve the...

Hi Does anyone else have problems with accessing nntp servers through Sky Broadband or is it just me? At the best of times it is flaky, and at evenings and weekend it is completely unusable. I use nntp purely for text groups (big five, gmane, mozilla, mozdev, opera) and not binaries. Regards, Chris

I topped up my S2 subscription by £10 and received the usual 'free stuff' including an internet allowance of 150Mb. However my Three mobile dongle has just run out of credit with a week to go, so I decided to buy a one week internet add-on at £2.50 for the S2 which I can also use as a modem. However I have two concerns. One - how much download/upload data do I get for the one week internet

Can anyone recommend a decent adsl wifi router with a built in USB print server? Preferably one that doesn't overheat?

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Anyone using the security bundle (AV, firewall etc) included as a free of charge download as a part of some VM broadband accounts? http://www.virginmedia.com/myvirginmedia/security/find-out-more/ Verdict?

Anyone using the security bundle (AV, firewall etc) included as a free of charge download as a part of some VM broadband accounts? http://www.virginmedia.com/myvirginmedia/security/find-out-more/ Verdict?

Hi all For those of you who are outside the Hull area, this will sound Monopolistic and prehistoric in ISP terms. Users inside the Hull and suburbs boundary have one fixed line/Internet connection provider to choose from Kingston Communications - branded Karoo. So my current deal gives me unlimited download with (admittedly) some loss of service during peak evening hours. Looking at our...

ADSL 2+ is provided by a thompson speedtouch modem / router connected to an 8 port switch. I also have a discarded by someone else but apparently fully functional Zoom X6 ADSL router series 1058 model 5590C. I was wondering if I could use the Zoom device as a wireless access point on my LAN. Rgds

Wonder if the assorted contents heron could help with this one?. A Taxi company we know has a data system that when the Taxi approaches the premises the data system knows this by the GPS tracking system and hence makes a two ring call to the punter to let them know their Taxi is outside:) This works very well and is considered most useful by the customers but its just intended to let them know...

I'm looking to change my ADSL broadband supplier from Claranet so that I can get a block of 8 IPs (5 usable, I know) instead of a single static IP. Currently looking at Zen, AAISP and Idnet, about all of which I have seen good reports over the years, but don't know how they currently compare on performance and service. Any recommendations or reviews from anyone here?

March 06, but been going on a few days. About half call attempts connect immediately to a "loud buzzing noise". Occurs both to mobiles and landlines. I guess I'll call customer service. Wait a minute, there isn't any.

Has anybody else noticed intermittent ADSL since 13:30 today on Demon ADSL connections in the Norwich area? Their status page says nothing since 13 February ... -- Graham J

As per subject, I'm interested to know which Wireless N router TalkTalk sell/give way for use with their service. Is it any good? Not for me specifically, but so I can help out a friend. (I did try to help them by suggesting they switch away from TT, but they are happy there so that's fine!)

OK, situation is I would like to squeeze as much as I can out of upstream connectyion. Sync is fine at 448k, but actual throughput is down at 376k consistently. Now I know there is always some overhead, but what is the best way to minimise that..is there an optimal MTU size? Currently its 1400.

Hi all, Apologies if this is common knowledge but despite considerable efforts, I cannot get a clear answer. I have been given a BT 2700hgv router and am about to get connected to BT Total Broadband. Could I use the 2700hgv router with Total Broadband or is the Total Broadband standard issue router as good/better/any different? What are the advantages to using each?

Ed Prochak wrote: I am trying to do some configuration on a Netgear switch (FS726T). problem is I cannot get to first base. This is supposed to have a Web based administration interface, but the switch does not seem to have an IP address. I have done IP scans, checked the DHCP client tables. It does not appear on the network. I wasn't sure where else to ask this (I'm surprised...

As the title. Need to find out how much call credit is left, but without a PC...? Is there a number to dial or a menu item that tells you the balance? Thanks

BT Business Broadband account, suddenly no connection this afternoon did all the usual checks including rebooting the router. Phoned BT Business Broadband Support, did all the usual checks with them including checking the username and password on the router. No joy. Tried to connect to the BT Test Page. No joy. Eventually he says he will do some line tests. A couple of minutes later he comes...

My friend has got cable BB and I ran a speed test tonight whilst with them I got 2Mb down, was surprised how slow cable is. Rather put me off. Regards David

Nominet currently lists three accredited registrars for UK ENUM (4.4.e164.arpa). Having tried for 2 months to contact these companies by email and phone, I have not received a single response. Has anyone else had any success?

I am considering changing my ISP. I have read about traffic shaping, which I understand basically means slowing certain types of traffic at busy times. I understand BT uses traffic shaping techniques. My question is if I change to an ISP that claims to use BT's infrastructure (leased capacity) will I automatically become caught up by BT's traffic shaping or does each ISP determine its own...

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An email I received this morning told me about "BT Fon" Wi-Fi . Is this a widely-used service I was unaware of? "BT is now the UK's largest Wi-Fi supplier with over One Million locations. We have hit our goal of building a million-strong Wi-Fi hotspot network, and we couldn't have done it without you. As a BT Broadband customer you can now access over one million of our public wireless...

I have 2 wireless routers, a Netgear DG834PN modem/router on a BT line and a Netgear WGR614 router on a VirginMedia cable service. The DG834PN uses address 192.168.0.1 and all connected devices have fixed IP's The WGR614 uses address 192.168.1.1 and the only device connected at the moment, a laptop, is given a dynamic IP. The laptop needs to be able to see the other network via the WGR614...

Apart from Sipgate, are there any other companies giving out free German phone numbers that I can use for a VOIP system? Thanks Me

When using advanced file sharing on an XP (pro) network, does a remote user need to also have a user account on the computer they want to access? -- Kind regards, Geoff Mills --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net ---

I want to upgrade my DG834G v2 from 3.01.25 to 3.01.38, but will I lose all my settings? Hours of work needed to set up all the firwall rules etc if I do lose them... Any Thoughts? Thank a lot

I've been following the excellent tutorial provided by Graham to set up a Skype to SIP Gateway, for use with a Skypephone S2. http://www.skypegateway.webs.com/ However, it seems that Orbtalk no longer provide free UK numbers to individual users. Are there any alternatives, and if so, how do I set them up? John

Thanks all round to the 860,000 owners of the newer variety of home hubs which have become Openzone and BT FON hot spots. I assume that all these people feel the happy glow of generosity in donating some of their bandwidth and domestic electricity bill towards BT's profits. I'm sure that all these good people ARE aware of this...

Firmware upgrade went wrong, read through forums and seen about the tiupgrade.exe method. Found this file but when I run it it goes through to the 'please power up the router'. and it hangs. Using the corrupted image mode, can't access it through the IP number. I'm running Win 7 Is this the problem ?

Hi, This is my first post so apologies if this isn't in the correct place. Long story short, i'm trying to setup a VPN at my work. We have a Windows SBS2003 Server, and a BT Broadband line with a BT Business Hub. I bought a Linksys WRV200 VPN router as I was told this would work.

I connect to the Internet on my Windows98 machine by Ethernet cable and able to browse the web with no problems ! There is a green light on the Ethernet card and the routers Ethernet LED lights. However I would like the old "blinking" lights in the tray or a similar application to indicate a connection. This would enable me to enable/disable the connection as is possible with Ethernet via...

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