Rant PlusNet provides my landline and FTTC broadband, and has usually been pretty good about fixing faults. However, my landline went dead on the morning of Tuesday 23rd June, and is STILL dead 13 days later as of Monday 6th July. Thankfully my broadband still works. I used the online reporting system to report the fault as soon as I

Does anybody here have an email account hosted by Elite? See: https://elite.net.uk/ I have one that I set up in May 2016 which I use for a small amount of personal email traffic. It has worked OK up until 21 June this year. Since then some emails that I send have bounced - possibly over half. The non-delivery message is of the form: Failed Recipient:

Hi all, My PN contract is coming to an end and they're promoting their new deals with the above-mentioned card. There are very few details what the reward card is other than this in the small print: "The Plusnet Reward Card is issued by Blackhawk Network (UK) Ltd, an Electronic Money Institution authorised in the UK by the*Financial Conduct Authority with Firm Reference Number 900023;...

Due to a cock up my DD got refused this week so I have to pay manually but each time I try I get : "Cannot reach this page" I gave them some slack yesterday as it was Sunday,

Currently on ADSL copper wires from Exchange but lots of activity to put in FTTP from Exchange. Plusnet do not do FTTP so Ill not be renewing with them this year and I'd be interested to know what experience anyone has with: A and A Zen Aquila

Short interruptions to my broadband seem to becoming more common, only every few weeks and for a few minutes but annoying. Is there anything (reasonably cheap!) that could be used to monitor a broadband connection and log interruptions?

Where have Shell broadband come from? Can't find much info about them. They have some interesting deals at the moment.

Hello all I hae been given a USB WiFi dongle to replace my Netgear WPN111. The only writing on the new dongle is WiFi AC 600M Wireless USB adaptor. On searching Amazon for dongles the picture of the XVZ USB WiFi dongle for PC 600Mbps dual band 2.4GHz/5GHz fast high gain antenna 802.11ac Wi-Fi wireless network adapter shows a dongle identical to the one I have been given. I do not, however,...

My daughter is being moved to WFH with a work supplied PC in two days. Her room is a fair distance from the router meaning that wifi may not be reliable enough - although she streams films all the time. So am considering powerline rather than run ethernet cables through the house and down a floor. Given the short notice I don't have time to consider what is best, only what to avoid. So are...

Two virtually identical laptops trying to connect via a dial-up VPN using L2TP - one connects - the other fails. I have syslog output from the Vigor router that they try to connect with. Both laptops are apparently fuly up-to-date. Reference Judy: Windows 10 Build 1909 version 18363.778 - this one works Reference Simon: Windows 10 Build 1909 version 18363.815 - this one fails.

I am being advised by my ISP that my Fibre router/modem must be connected to the Mastersocket only and not to an extension socket. Is this absolutely necessary for the fibre BB to work?

Scenario is: Vigor 2860 connected to VDSL 2.5M bits/sec up, 22 Mbits/sec down at my location. I know that's slow, but its well over 1km to the Green Cabinet. At a remote farm, Vigor 2832 connected to ADSL 800 kbits/sec up, 1.8 Mbits/sec down. As I said, it's remote! Both sites have static public IPs so I have a LAN-to-LAN VPN between the two routers. I can use VNC to drive a PC at the...

I want a reasonably fast and reliable link to an outbuilding which is, I guess, 30 metres or so from the house. The existing UTP cable has finally given up the ghost in the recent winds and I'm wondering whether to replace it (difficult, time consuming) or to use a WiFi link of some sort. I don't need Gigabit speeds, 100Mb/s would be fine, thus a pair of 300Mb/s capable routers, if they can...

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0038/189848/consultation-spectrum-access-wifi.pdf Interesting consultation about increasing the amount of Wi-Fi spectrum in the 5-6GHz region, and to removing some of the existing restrictions. “What we are proposing - in brief We are proposing the following measures to improve the Wi-Fi experience for people and businesses:

I've started a separate thread as I'm getting somewhere. I have configured an old TP-Link MR3420 Wireless Router to work in (what it calls) bridge mode as a client to one of the routers in the house. With both routers sitting in the windows where they can 'see' each other I'm getting something like 50Mb/s which is fine for the moment. So, the one thing that's bugging me now is how to get to...

Does anybody have any experience or know of availability of SFPs with built-in VDSL modems? There was some talk on the Mikrotik forum and the RevK blog going back a couple of years but I can't find any UK suppliers showing them available. I have an installation where I need to use a Mikrotik router and this would be a tidier solution than having to bolt on a Vigor 130 or a recycled...

It's nice to read the complimentary threads about the ISPs current performance, I'm having real problems with Plusnet, it's very selective regarding what I can and can not use since Sunday afternoon. If it matters I'm a VDSL customer on the Prestwich exchange in N Manchester. Its easier to list what *is* working. All Google websites Google Search, Google Photos, Google Maps, YouTube, etc etc...

I see it failed at about 10pm last night. Anybody else see this? I've emailed to let him know. -- Graham J

Are other Zen customers receiving unsolicited marketing email from Zen? I've received two, on April 9th and today. The emails pass SPF, have valid DKIM signatures from zen.co.uk and were sent by exacttarget.com. Both have a List-Unsubscribe: header with a URL that, when followed, returns "403 Forbidden". Sad to see Zen, which has (or had) a good reputation, doing these things. -- N_i_c_k

Does anyone have any recommendations for PAYG SIMs to use in a USB dongle as backup to VDSL failure? My router (Asus DSL-88U) provides a dual-WAN failover mode if required and I'm interested in setting it up, although it is more than 20 years since I've had a failure - ADSL in those days. Thanks.