Im still able to use my old Central Point login!....Anyone else still connected from Fast24? Alex

NTL:Telewest announced today that it is to change its name to Virgin Media - as it reported its third quarter results. The company declared net losses for the period of £96.1 million - up from £52.1 million last time - but revenues increased by 140.6 million to £1.02 billion. The results follow NTL's acquisition earlier this year of Telewest and Virgin Mobile. NTL:Telewest said the name...

Guys, I am looking for a dual WAN router at reasonable price. More WAN ports would be nice. From Google I managed to find a few interesting products. In particular, the Peplink device looks nice. http://www.peplink.com/productsLoader.php?productName=balance There is a review written by a customer who compared the Peplink with

Is there a fault with these this morning. I've just been to sort out someones problems on their PC and discovered that although he had access to email he could not gain access to any web sites. All his settings seem to be correct. The DNS addresses are allocated by the ISP so I do not know the addresses. Does anyone have the details, and also perhaps some alternatives. -- Cyril

Hi all, A friend of mine who lives at the other side of the country has had problems with their BT BB connection since an alarm was fitted several weeks ago. Previously the connection was solid but since the alarm went in it constantly disconnects and often fails connecting with a 'server not responding'.

As mentioned during BT's results presentation last week: "BT today revealed how it plans to reduce its wholesale broadband pricing once 1.5m lines have been unbundled. The indicative prices are aimed at offering service providers a cost effective alternative to Local Loop Unbundling (LLU). The new pricing structure is intended to come into effect from May 2007 - at which point BT believes...

I've just found out that during December I will be working in an environment where I will have to use a 3G PCMCIA card in my laptop to access broadband internet. I'm prepared to bite the bullet and buy a year's contract if I have no other choice, but what I need is an unlimited deal. I've looked at T-Mobile and Vodaphone, but it seems 3G is still very expensive and, although some companies...

Between mains power cuts (every couple of weeks around here, lately) I have a reliable ADSLMax connection from Zen running at 160 - 224 kbps downstream and 448 kbps upstream, on a line about 11 km long. Noise margin d/s cycles slowly between 6 & 12 db (better at night), and is always 12 db u/s. The problem is that it takes my Netgear DG834 router anything up to 12 hours to re-sync after a...

SINGAPORE TO GET FREE WI-FI BY YEAR END Wireless@SG operators to offer 512kbps connections http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=7623

On 9 November I emailed the sales dept or RedTen with the following question: "If I migrate to RedTen Internet using a MAC from my existing ISP do I still have to pay your £49.99 connection fee?" Seven long days later, on 16 November I got the following reply: "All customers who sign up to Redten Internet will be required to pay the £49.99 connection fee."

Hi All Moved from Tiscali to VISPA about 30 months ago but looks like time to move on again. No cable here I am close to a BT exchange so can get 6mb+ Downloads unlikely to exceed 15GB/month

Plusnet has published details of an offer made by the BT Group for the Sheffield based provider. The offer by BT is for the whole of the issued and to be issued share capital of Plusnet, with each share worth 210 pence, valuing the company at £66.7 million. More of this is he http://www.adslguide.org.uk/newsarchive.asp?item=2881

Hi Anybody any opinions on the new redten deal? http://www.redteninternet.com/ A decent new PC is tempting but the 3 year contract is a bit daunting. Apparently, the finance is with another company and the PC isn't "yours" till the end of the contract. So if the company goes bust you've got a 3 year loan, no PC and no broadband. But....if they do

Hi, Can anyone help? About four weeks ago I supposedly had Pipex broadband installed. I have an Applemac (new) and two new routers, one Netgear. Since the installation the brodband link has never worked. The 'i' lamp on the Netgear router flickers on amber about every 30s and that is alll it does. It never stays on solid green. Occasionally it goes green for only a second or two. The same sort...

Vodafone unveiled details of its broadband bundle this morning. We can probably expect its rivals' complaints to the Advertising Standards Association to be in by this afternoon. The mobile operator's Vodafone at Home service will offer its consumer contract customers 8Mb unlimited broadband service nationwide, on the back of BT's network. They will also get inclusive landline calls within the...

BT are useless, are they not? -- huLLy 07976 123278 "Sliced bread makes me sneeze"

Hello all I have been having problems with slow speeds on my 7616kbps Broadband connection and as a test I took the user panel off the Master Socket to try to connect to the Test Socket to see if I had any better speeds through that. Problem is, the Test Socket does not seem to work. Even stranger is that there are 3 sets of cables connected to the IDC

I've got a D-Link DSL-G624M which I'm fairly happy with, but it doesn't seem to be logging anything. According to the config page there should be a button to click on to change ' Log Settings', but I can't see it. The illustrations on the manual pages don't have it either!?! Firmware is the latest version.

A friend of mine went on to BT broadband recently (before I could warn him!) and was given a BT Voyager 2019 Wireless ADSL Modem/Router. He was also given a 128 bit WEP key for it. We couldn't get any wireless-enabled computer to connect. They could all SEE the wireless connection, but couldn't connect. Eventually, I decided to try setting up a new wireless network on my laptop. During that,...

A firend wants to get a Broadband account, but is planning to move to France in about six months time. She tells me that all the ISPs she has looked at so far require her to sign up for 12 months (and this is true of my own ISP - Demon). Can anyone suggest where she can get a short-term contact from? -- Hungerdunger To reply by email, remove the MARX from my address