Stick with me, this does make sense. :-) I've got a long line which only gives 1Mb. For ages I had a 0.5Mb connection which left me with an SNR of 11db. Pipex then shifted me to Tiscali LLU for a laugh but the odd thing about that was I now had a 16db SNR. Tiscali's kit is definately more recent that the BT kit in my exchange and a 5db increase would almost double my sync speed (which...

I recently had a replacement device under warranty, appeared to be a brand new WAG325N. Only had it 3 months and now my download speeds have dropped to around 12KB per second. A different router gives 120/130KB per second on the same line, the latter is about the best I can expect (allowing for a multiplication of about 8/10 for kbps) due to my distance from exchange. The Linksys status...

A neighbour from about four doors down has just asked my advice about a problem she's having but I don't think I can do much - anyone know any way round this? When she opens Outlook Express it checks for mail and tells her that there's 37 messages, and begins to download them. Unfortunately, it gets five of them but stalls on the sixth one. She's only on dial-up (getting 40kbps) and after...

Hello I am currently on 2mb cable broadband with virgin media, the 12 month term expires 1st June. 9th May I am moving to a new property (new build apartment). It looks asthough i cannot get virgin media cable broadband at this particular apartment, although the rest of the street can - our apartment has diff postcode.

Anyone use UK Online as their ISP? I'm considering moving to them as they are one of only two ISP's in my area who offer ADSL2 on my exchange. I'm having major problems with my current ISP as they are passing my support call between themselves and BT and it's not moving forward. My connection has been down for 3 weeks and thought that changing to a LLU on ADSL2 may help. Any bad or good...

Hiya. I have a Masterplug surge protection with telecom protection. It has two inputs - Which are a stantard BT socket, and an RJ11 socket. It then has underneath these sockets, an output side, with the BT, and RJ11 sockets. It's supplied with a cable with a standard BT plug one end, and a RJ11 the other end. I currently have the supplied cable plugged into my BT master socket, and then...

Just got myself an o2 connection after many years on Zen (first at 2MB then the 8MB package). o2 Speed and reliability seems ok so far however, their ideas on security are scary. First, they give out your o2 username on every outgoing email sent via their smtp servers (which require authentication), it goes something like this... Received: from main.lan (93.96.21.112) by mail.o2.co.uk...

There's nothing worse than someone posting to newsgroups just to vent their frustrations. I mean, get a life... it's only the internet, right? And other people's connection issues are like other people's babies... of very little interest! So look away now. ;-) Sunday: Broadband working as usual. Ok, I'm only limited to a 1Mb connection which delivers a solid 120kb/s day or night on a Max...

At the moment I'm with virgin net 'plan2' ( 'not' on the new cable) and have learnt recently from virgin that my £17.99 a month package, was capped at 2MB data stream and that I could be switched to 5MB IP stream for the same money I'm paying them. So I asked them to upgrade me to the faster IP system and Virgin told me to wait 10 days or so for the system to pick up speed. It's now three weeks...

I see that you can now buy radios that will connect to internet radio sites via a home network, wired or wi-fi. Does anyone have any experience of these? -- Michael Chare

Pipex have decided to charge £1 p/m for paying by credit card. They actually applied the charge without giving me a chance to change to direct debit before the payment became due. They claim that the T&C allow them to make the charge but I can not find it and when I asked the person I spoke to was unable to point to the relevant sentence. What also annoyed me was that the email advising the...

its up and down like a whores drawers ,one minute i get 7megs and then its down to 100k or less ,no hardwares changes or outside factors to change it . its dire

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Previous: 4pm to 9pm Now: 11am to 9pm.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7350431.stm """ Some companies in the UK and France already offer fast broadband via the sewers. """ Jeez, isn't there enough sh*t online already?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7354133.stm In the UK many net firms manage traffic at peak times in a bid to ensure that everyone gets the highest broadband speed possible. Best laugh I've had all day (sic) Highest speeds possible, are they joking ? My Virgin Media ADSL service is now the very worst it has ever been during the evenings.

My telephone exchange went down for 1 day over a week ago. When it came back up I got my telephone line back but no broadband. I went through the usual checks in my home and on my 2 computers, everything ok. After various frustrating calls to both BT and my ISP (tesco.net) I finally got someone to beleive that it is the exchange that is at fault and it no longer seems to support broadband. I...

A bloke comes home from the pet shop with a cock-sucking frog. His wife says, "What the hell am I supposed to do with that?" The bloke says, "Teach it to cook, then **** off!"

This is now applied to Virgin ADSL customers, and will no doubt be extended to Cable customers. Application Management: Application Management is really simple. We have a set of rules that manages how much bandwidth is allocated to a specific list of applications and protocols during peak periods. The rules apply to everyone on the network who is using these application and protocols

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