Hi i just reconnected to Bluyonder cable 750kbits at £25 per month, no gb cap, free install, free modem, 1 month free, 1 year contract. I asked Telewest if o could pay the whole year in advance, rather than monthly and i was told that thats no problem, however it will not be at £25 per month, but £27 per month as we (Telewest) levy a £2 surcharge if you dont pay by our prefered method (monthly...

My exchange will finally be ADSL-enabled very shortly and I've signed up for broadband with PlusNet. They will arrange for the HH to be decommissioned and for the ADSL upgrade to be done at the same time. However they're not going to place the order until at least the date of the exhange activation. Is it true that it can't be ordered any earlier than that? Having been the first person in my...

I found this great little site. I signed up two weeks ago and got 2 Disney tickets and this week they are sending me 2 Universal Studios tickets. Here's the link http://66.219.102.40/ and by the way I am a real person, this is my real email address. I'm not a spammer and didn't appreciate the nasty email I got last time I tried to post this link. Thanks,...

When migrating from one broadband supplier to another, is the switch over fairly quick or is there likely to be a period in which you don't have Internet access? Thanks in advance. -- John Foul

I know Bulldog was at the forefront of LLU (local Loop Unbundling) so much so that Cable & Wireless completely bought them as wholly owned subsidiary, but are they any good? Does anyone reading this use Bulldog & have any positive or negative comments re their service. I'm thinking of changing from Pipex to save a few quid a month. So happy to stick with 512k ,uncapped,no -email,but want...

Futher to my recent posts here, I am trying to get my parents ADSL'd for their Christmas pressie. They live in a semi rural area (Workington, Cumbria BT Exchange) which is ADSL enabled. I am trying to get an account with EFH Broadband but this is proving difficult - no capacity - but they want to use data streaming not ISP streaming. Now they charge quite high set up fees which I wiull be...

Hello everyone, I am from Sydney - Australia, and I currently have an ADSL broadband connection with Telstra. My modem is D-Link DSL-302G... There are 2 kinds of connections available, and we can use the 2 connections at the same time for 2 computers, namely, one computer uses USB connection, and another computer uses Ethernet connection. However, recently, I have a problem. The problem is...

I've been having trouble browsing the web the past few days, I keep internmittently getting redirected to a 'BT Whole sale pages that says: 'You have been connected to this page due to one of the following reasons. You must now shut down your browser and Internet applications before attempting to reconnect. 1. The BTWholesale access circuit to your Service Provider is currently down. ...

I recently signed up with an ISP and they were going to do a managed connection on my ISDN line. After 10 weeks of being messed around I canceled it got a refund. But in the run up to the end I was getting my main number ceased and nothing else happened. I understood that the change to POTS and removal of the highway box should all be done at the same time with say a maximum downtime of 1...

Hi, Anyone any experience of network products which allow you make ethernet connections via power sockets in the wall? Reliable? Good for online play with PS2/Xbox? Recommendations? e.g. http://www.homeplug.org/products/

Has anyone else been having trouble reaching web pages over the past week? I enter the url and sometimes get a 404, *but* if I press refresh it always appears. I'm on Pipex with a Netgear DG384G, but I always used to be fine. My friend on Bulldog with a adsl modem is having the same problem. I've checked for virii and spyware, I also run a hardware firewall.

Hi Further to my post of a few days ago regarding a capacity issue that is preventing my parents from getting ADSL. We have ordered a 512 50:1 service through EFH Broadband. BT have said that the order is on hold because they have now capacity at the exchange. However checking with samknows and other tools there appears to be plenty of capacity available.

I am a bit confused as to what contention ratios amount to. I know it is mostly 50:1, but exactly what size of connection are these 50 sharing. If you are a 512 connection then would there be 50 on this. I know that most pipes are 155 but presumably this is just racked up on the former. -- Regards David G

Seems from reading this some at Plusnet are either part time politicians or just very good at wriggling like a worm..... http://tinyurl.co.uk/46ff Hmm come to think of it wriggling out of questions and facts is a bit like some of its customers that post in here. LOL Happy contended surfing heavy use (What ever that may be, ya just have to take a wild guess LOL) Plusnet'ers, hohoho, just the early...

I would be interested to hear from any other Plusnet customers who signed up to their Broadband Home product in the period 1 June to 25 August and have subsequently been charged for a bandwidth change. When Plusnet originally introduced their capped broadband product a notable feature was "You can change your bandwidth later for free, if your needs change". As usual, the contract was for a...

"DeeBee" wrote in message news:1100760331.aVRwi/3/VRghRB4iz8OaGA@teranews They gave a start date of 12 Nov but according to EFH, BT have put the order on hold because there is not enough capacity at the exchange. The order is on hold until BT sort out more capacity. EFH says they have never been in this situation and are chasing BT. Has anyone here come...

Newbie needs advice on name to choose for "fresh start" - unclear on conventions. Broadband availability approaching here, and it's crunch time on choice of ISP, because self and wife currently using Virgin, Cix, Demon dial-up access and likely to use one of Virgin, Demon, PlusNet or other, with shared access, of course. Just concerned at the moment to have a suitable, unique name (say...

Are BT actually enforcing their 1GB a day capping on their 1MB service yet?

In message 1100760331.aVRwi/3/VRghRB4iz8OaGA@teranews, DeeBee writes They gave a start date of 12 Nov but according to EFH, BT have put the order on hold because there is not enough capacity at the exchange. The order is on hold until BT sort out more capacity. EFH says they have never been in this situation and are chasing BT. Seems to me like it will be an...

I signed up to Pipex broadband because it was recommended to me, but I find although most web pages download fairly rapidly, it is not the case in the newsgroups. I am only trying to download text, and it takes ages, infact it was quicker on the old BT dial up (much quicker) this is the server I am trying to connect to, nntp.dsl.pipex.com Am I doing something wrong ? Frankly I am disappointed...