Hi all, I have just got up and running with Demon broadband, connection etc all fine but, if I leave the pc for a minuite or so say to answer the phone, when I return the connectioin has dropped and I have to connect via the connect icon on my desktop. Is there something in a menu somewhere that I have to check to stop this happening, my understanding is that once connected with broadband you...

Whil on dial-up I used the excelent DUN monitor. Is there something similar for broadband. I have done a Google search and most of the broadband monitors are all singing all dancing sophisticated packages costing megabucks. The main features I want is a graph and daily upload and download volumes. Advice please.

They've been digging up the road here. Just wondering what it could be for. Sounds like a telecoms company although the name might be misleading I guess. Hoping BT have contracted them to do the installation work for BB here.

I took out PlusNet's 512K (uncapped) service in January 2003 and including the (12 months spread) cost of the modem the monthly fee has been £24.99. The information on PlusNet's website at the time stated that after 1 year the monthly fee would reduce to £18.99 (or therabouts; I can't remember the exact figure - because the connection and modem cost would be paid for). They now say this...

Anybody with them?? Thinking of going to the 1meg service

2mb/s for 35 quid a month.. -- huLLy 07976 123278

Bulldog have quietly updated the number of exchanges at which they offer their 4MB LLU for £40 service (including BT line rental) This takes them up to just over 60 LLU exchanges (from about 35 previously) in total - out of the 2/300 they/Cable and Wireless have announced they will do nationwide by the end of next year All of the first wave of new exchanges appear to be in and about...

Hi all, we're having Telewest BB fitted next week. I imagine they will put the box on the wall where the TV & Phone points are. Unfortunately the PC is two rooms away. To be neat and tidy I want to have two RJ45 (is it) boxes one each wall. I'll run the cable (about 15m) over the loft. Having never done this sort of thing before (phones yes, networks no) will I

How about a package where my speed increases from 512K to 2M after say 1am..... :-) Bye for now. Clive.

Any recommendations? I want to use in conjunction with Outlook. I tried GMAIL, but it doesn't let you change the from address, and I want to change this so that it looks like email is coming from my domain. Cheers.

Details at http://www.ukonline.net/8000/ Connection fee is £50 Advertised contention ratio of 33:1. Upload is 400K The service is based around the EasyNet LLU exchanges of which there are just over 200. The approximate range is around 2km which UK Online estimate to be

I have a 750k connection with NTL. I use grabit for downloading quite a lot of binaries, but find that takes all available bandwidth. I like to listen to online radio and surf the web at the same time. Is there a program that lets you allocate percentages of bandwidth to specific progs. for example 50k to grabit, 10k for radio and the remainder for surfing. TIA John

My super fast 2Mb connection is currently chugging along at 12Kbs. Here's some nice quotes from the Plusnet signup page: "2MB - 40x faster: The best broadband experience lets you do everything online at amazing speeds." "2Mb - 40x faster - Download a 5MB file in less than 30 seconds"

I have been with BT Broadband (1MB) since last December and initially had no problems. About four or five months ago I began to have trouble getting a connection. It would get to the "verifying username and password" stage, pause for ages, then eventually display "unable to establish a connection". I have to repeatedly re-try before I eventually get connected. I would estimate that this is now...

My Clarity RJ45 extension socket bears a label marked 568B showing the layout for cable attachment, but to confuse matters there is enclosed in the packing a similar label marked 568A with a different layout. Could use socket as-is, i.e 568B, I guess, but I'd like to get it right first time. Enough other things to go wrong - new broadband connection. Not clear to me from Clarity web site on...

Do modem routers tell you what your transfer rate is when you are downloading a file for example, i know that obviously the web browsers do, but what about routers? just out of interest. Thanks du.

I've been having intermittent problems with loss of synch for quite a few weeks. BT fixed a line fault - corroded terminal connection in an outside line box - a few weeks ago. This improved the problem but I still get loss of synch. The engineer told me that the defunct line box wasn't in good shape but his repair removed the diagnosed line problem from the line test report. The BT line...

Right up until yesterday i was all set to order adsl from plusnet but i'am not quite sure anymore. I have been reading the posts about plusnet and people been receiving emails about the amount that they have been downloading in a month. Although hearing about this i was still thinking of using them as no isp is perfect especially as i use bt yahoo anytime at the moment and wasn't happy when they...

My recollection is that radio-amateurs who use 'top band' get a lot of interference from adsl... If I took a medium/short wave radio near an adsl exchange, could I tell when the adsl had been enabled?? Bob (G3XIY - My only set that goes that low, that the kids haven't swiped the batteries for, is an AR88D, which would probably just give me a double hernia)

Hello all, I have a USR9105 router and Tesco BB. All runs well with no problems. My son is spending far too much time on the Internet instead of doing his homework and so I want to restrict access (by password) without preventing him working on the computer. In other words, in order for him to get on the Internet, I enter a password to activate the router. If its not possible to do this, can...