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Broadband has been off for almost two days, with still no estimate of when the fault is going to be fixed, for Luton, Hitchin, and a number of other telephone exchanges in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. The Be helpline claims that other broadband suppliers are also affected. The fault is apparently a break in some fibre owned by BT "between Luton, Hemel Hempstead, and Berkhampsted" - which...

Hi all My father-in-law is interested in broadband and I talked him through the setup I have. Is this still considered to be the optimum solution? Telephone masterbox in loft Output to tel/adsl splitter Tel feeds to wall points from filtered side. Wire from unfiltered side to RJ11 local to PC

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

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?

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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

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?

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...

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...

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!)

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?

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.

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...

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

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

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...

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,40057470,00.htm -- Graham. %Profound_observation%

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...