Does anyone have any views on the changes of decent early termination charges for a T-Mobile dongle. It's 6 months into 18-month contract, and I want to cancel: the service is pretty poor, so that could be grounds. Also, the recent ruling by Ofcom on early termination charges on landlines could help (but only refers to broadband when it's packaged with a landline). Thought I'd ask for...

Open Letter to Three Dear Sir I am NOT happy with Three. This is not the first time that I have had to complain about unprofessional service THIS MONTH, and FIVE times this year. On the evening on 19 August I had problems connecting to my mobile broadband account +44 (0)789....

A friend and I finally persuaded one of his neighbours to upgrade her broadband. She was still paying for a Fixed Rate 2 Mb/s service which was installed years ago, even though her exchange has been both 21CN'd and FTTC'd. So she went for BT Infinity, and it was installed a week ago. The installer apparently said it might take a week for the speed to stabilise, which surprised me. Anyway, my...

Is news.enta.net down ? Have spoken to them several times recently and they seem to indicate that they have had a problem with their news server, no they have apparently fixed it but say that it's having difficulty peering. Now it seems as if it's off the air altogether..!! Anyone else using this news feed ? if so is it working for you ?

The other day I emailed a document (with a .docx extension) to a @btinternet.com address. It did not arrive, I did resend it but it still vanished although emails with no attachments or other types (e.g. .pdf) get through OK. The problem has been solved - my associate has now set up an address with one of the many webmail providers and that is working OK, but I would be interested in knowing...

Yep yet another post about BB speeds, I am testing with broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk, the 2 PCs are next to each other thro the same wired router. PC1 is slower to load web pages than PC2, yet PC1 is 50% faster on its speedcheck, how can this be so? I have run CCleaner on both which I assume gives the PCs a clean slate to some extent so they both get a level start? Both are Dell Dimension...

For somebody going to the Lake District on holiday, which provider gives the best mobile internet coverage: Vodafone, O2, Orange, or Three ...?? Any recommendations please? -- Graham J

I've been suffering occasional but regular ADSL disconnects for a couple of weeks now, and the frequency of them has increased since some heavy rain last Wednesday. The symptoms are as follows:-. Suddenly my router (Cisco AM200) will lose sync with the exchange, or its sync speed will drop dramatically. When I notice this happening I can hear crackles and whistling sounds on the phone line.

Hi, Has any BT residential customer managed to get BT Connect on their residential phone line? If not, was it painless swapping out to small business? I am looking at the pros/cons of getting a BT Connect connection with a couple of static IP addresses and minutes to UK landlines included. The BT Openworld residential packages don't include static IP or multiple IP address options...

I have seen two PCs both Dell Dimensions that access the web thro ethernet cables to the router. PC1 is slow to load web pages and broadbandspeedchecker shows a D/L speed of 1500 Mbps. PC2 loads web pages faster yet shows a D/L speed of only 1000 Mbps. Both PCs use Firefox, any ideas why the page loading is so different please? Have run AV and antispyware on both

Hi I have a bt 2-wire router that has just died - no power etc etc As I nned ot buy a new router I wondered if it has to be 2-wire or can I use any routher? Thanks for any help S

A great man after my own heart;not afraid to speak there own mind! A great man who will plainley speak the truth! http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008200023''Iowa paper reports Ted Nugent said, "There's a lot of white people in this crowd -- I like that!" August 20, 2010 12:05 pm ET by Eric Hananoki One of the scheduled speakers at Glenn Beck's 8-28 "reclaim the civil rights movement" rally...

On 27 Aug, 18:19, Geoff Berrow wrote: I've finally lost it with Demon. *I'm not sure how they will respond to sarcasm and irony but nothing else has worked. *Here's my email. Dear Mamatha Thank you so much for copying and pasting the email below. *I am particularly touched by the bit that says 'Details concerning this Crossposted to uk.telecom.broadband where...

Just had a strange issue (solved now) ... Noticed that I had lost internet connectivity, checked router and it had ATM sync (2624 down and 832 up, about usual for here) but no PPP session, asked it reconnect PPP a few times but it kept saying it timed-out, did a soft reboot of the router, still the same, power-cycled the router, still the same. Decided to see if it would connect using BT's...

Has Pipex stopped newsgroup access? Or is their nntp server just down? -- Chris

Hi, I'm considering migrating to Zen. Is it still recommended? On the Zen website I've not been able to find any reference to traffic shaping or deliberate speed limiting during peak hours. Is there any such shaping or limiting? Yesterday I sent two emails to Zen sales asking those questions but so

EntaNet explicitly lowers the priority of UDP packets, treating all UDP data as P2P. I have recently received confirmation from EntaNet that it has no intention of removing this restriction for OpenVPN traffic (UDP/1194) even though staff there acknowledge that it is a VPN service. I've instead been advised that I should change my package from a Home based one to a Business based one. There are...

Java Jive wrote: "A network of thousands of compromised computers that is being used to harvest online banking details has been uncovered in the UK." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10865568 Yes, the idiots who don't install firewalls and and anti-virus software will get fleeced. Graham

Does anyone know of free (or very cheap downloadable) software that will drive a Huawei PCMCIA 3G modem card? I have acquired an unlocked device and am going off to France soon. I could buy a SIM over there but obviously need software to interface it - or do I? Any (polite) advice welcomed.

On a 2 wire BT router on a BT business adsl line ? Found one today that was set to 35, instead of the usual 38. Also, the router was set to "bridged LLC" Thanks..... -- The End