Our village gets ADSL in four weeks, and to reduce the number of people calling me for advice, I thought I'd set up a page on the village website to talk people through the basics of the technology and the questions to ask themselves when choosing an ISP. Rather than write it all from scratch, it struck me that there might be something suitable already online. Has anyone come across a...

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http://www.talktalk.co.uk/talktalk/servlet/gben-broadband-Home and choose their free Option 1 package to go with it. Its IPStream too I'm actually gutted as I cannot get 1Mb, so if I want broadband from Talk Talk I have to go for their 1/2Mb package costing more at £19.99!!!

Hi All, I was just trying to help a friend of a friend over the phone who it sounds like had 'free internet access for 1 year' bundled with her Tiny / Time machine (not a good start I know ..) The free offer elapsed and she carried on PAYG but then it kept asking her to sign up? She then tried Tesco PAYG but can't complete the sign-up with them due

http://www.bulldogbroadband.com/residential/XPNP/XP/index.asp seems very good. anyone tried it ?

Hi group, Spent a few hellish years on Pipex. Been with NDO for exactly one year now on 1MBit. Latency is an issue with this ISP (V.Slow to start downloads etc) so looking at possible migration. I'm wanting: 2MBit connection if possible Unlimited bandwidth (or at least a 30GB limit) Min 2 email accounts Newsgroup access

Can anyone recommend an ISP which can give a service at normal domestic rates, or special low rates. I was hoping to use Plusnet £14.99 as the intended use will be for no more than 3 hours per day three days a week. Unfortunately this isn't available as Charities are deemed to be businesses. KM

Hi, I'm interested in getting NTL broadband with the free offpeak calls. I also want a package where I can download at least 1 GB a day. http://www.home.ntl.com/icat/broadband&source=ntlcom_bblink According to the above URL I need the 2Mb package to get 1 GB a day transfer. If I follow the URLs to the £21.99 unlimited off-peak calls package I get to this page:

Is it possible to get a PCMCIA ADSL modem ?

Hi Im trying to set up my router for a static address on pipex is this possible to do this without paying more for it? I have a dlink 604 router but it does not seem to work when I set it up to go static with Pipex Any help appreciated Graham

Do all ISPs filter out the alt.binary newsgroups?

Hi everyone, I have a problem connecting my modem DSL300G+ with the Grandstream HandyTone 486. I'm using this modem since two years attached to a Linux box that gets the public IP without problems. I wanted to connect the ATA486 in between but it gets always the private IP (i.e. 192.168.0.2) from the modem instead of the public one. Then the dhcp server of the ATA works fine with the PC. I saw...

Bulldog's website is now showing that its 4MB LLU service is now available in: .. CENTRAL LONDON .. GREATER LONDON .. BIRMINGHAM .. BLACKBURN .. BOOTLE .. BRADFORD .. BRISTOL

I want to block some websites on my home network. I used to use the HOSTS file, which worked fine up to a point, although it was a pain maintaining the file up to date. Then I looked at DNSKong, which seemed really good on paper, but I never managed to set it up properly. Then I got a Netgear DG834g router (magic!) and found the 'Block sites' function very functional. However it seems to...

Does anyone know what talk talk's infrasturcture is like? I'm with pipex and considering the £14.99 per month offer for 1 mb/s service But what's their capacity like? oes service slow down at different times of the day?

Does anyone know what is happening with the Scottish Executive's pledge for affordable broadband for all by the end of the year? There was a tender put out in November but I've heard nothing since. This mainly affects the South of Scotland and the Highlands where there are many so-called 'unviable' exchanges. Hopefully, Updata will get the contract and upgrade all exchanges just as they are doing...

Apart from first couple of days, Tesco has been 100% reliable for me. With 2 PC's and a xBox online virtually continuesly together, i'm happy. Bob "Dougal" wrote in message ... Is this a reliable service? Any draw backs? Thanks

ADSL Checker Results (for 0120439**3) Your telephone exchange BOLTON (LCBOL) does support ADSL however there is a generic incompatible product on your line which would prevent you from successfully applying for ADSL. Does anyone know what this could mean? I am applying for Broadband for a theatre, and we get this result on our main number. However everythings okay on our seperate box office...

Dougal wrote: Is this a reliable service? Any draw backs? Thanks Dougal Cheap as chips for a 24x7 *unlimited* connection that's faster than my old pipex one (of course just my own experience).

Saw these in micro anvika today To me they look like the same router apart from DG834G - 54MB/s - £90 DG834GT - 108 MB/s - £150 Is the DG834GT worth paying the extra 66% ? -- Mike