A friend asked me to help him with his Tuscansurf Broadband which is causing him some grief. I found that when he was sending email he was using yahoo which is obviously bundled with his system But I was amazed to find that he had to give a user name and password in order to go on line and after that when he opened the yahoo email he had to give a user name and password again. What I want to...

Hi all I have got what should be a 8Mb service from Tiscali, but am getting some 1.2Mb some of the time, 500kb other times... BT line checker says I should be getting some 6Mb.... Tiscali customer service is in India, and help is basic, limited to have you 2 little lights on the modem have you plugged in the line etc.

I would be interested in hearing if anyone is running their own web server via a home DSL connection, especially if on Virgin Media. I am interested in trying this for fun, and for the chance to learn more about what's involved. Although my VM download speed vary wildly, the upload speeds are more consistent. If you have a website you're hosting in this way maybe you could share the...

Can anyone tell me if Virgin Broadband (via a BT Line) with free weekend/evening calls requires that the line is taken over by Virgin? If not how can Virgin take control of the weekend and eveing calls only? Thanks

I have used Teles skyDSL service with a mobile phone uplink for the last two years and the service has been patchy but usable with speeds up 2mb on a nominal 4mb contract. For the last two weeks or so though, average connection speeds on tcp/ip have been about 75kb on the giganews test page and about 25kb as reported by Newsleecher. Any Teles skyDSL users have any comments?

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How necessary is SPI in reality, for a home router? I've managed using a router without it until now - is it just a way of selling me something that I don't need? Hence what's the threat/risk, if any, to: - my router h/w? - my BB service

Hi all I've had business broadband at 8M from Claranet for about 10 months and have always achieved speeds of around 6.4M. Been relatively happy with that as I am 2Km from the exchange and my office is in the sticks with cabling from a pole outside the building. However a few weeks ago this noticeably dropped off and I started doing regular speed tests. I regularly checked the speed...

Virgin Media have agreed to give Phorm access to customers browsing records, letting it track a web user's every move. Customers can opt out of the new system when it is introduced next month. But they will be encouraged to stay. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/technology/18target.html My Aunty Hildred is really annoyed about this, and she's only bin with

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Hi, I know little/nothing about broadband, so after many dialup years I think it's time to try bb. How does talktalk compare to other ISP's these days, as most of the negative postings on various forums seem to be from 2 years ago. It seems that there are quite a few negative views on which ever ISP I consider, so I figured tt is cheap and all I require at the moment is light surfing (no music...

I have been doing some tests on speedtest.net and the results have been very variable ... from 500 to 3500 kbps ... and I'm now wondering about what speed is needed. What speeds are needed for different Internet uses? -- Chris

Can I still use 18866 or 18185 on Tiscali Talk? Or are these services unavailable on this service? Easy to check... if you are already on Tiscali Talk, dial 18866 or 18185 and let me know if you can reach the service. Thanks a lot... Ron

Just in case anybody out there was still under the misapprehension that there's any privacy left on the internet, have a look at this: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/15/business/AD18.php Surely this kind of stunt isn't even legal? Isn't modifying someone else's web page before delivering it to the client a breach of the author's copyright? --

Hi all, We use the Draytek 2600vg's across 5 sites for their VPN capability. Untill now they been very solid & reliable, however over the last 2 months we have had 4 fail. They don't detect a DSL connection. Switching the routers to any other type tests OK. We have tried firmware upgrade, factory resets, resetting and manually retyping in the config in case it got corrupted etc... with no luck....

I can't seem to find a definate answer to this question. At the moment interleaving is set to auto and I can't see from my router if its on or off. If I were to force it to be on, would that offer any increase in sync speed? Clearly I could just try it but it takes 48 hours for any change to take effect so I thought I'd ask here first. Cheers. WCZ.

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/article/378/virgin-media-ad-deal-with-phorm-causes-a-storm 95% of those who took part in the poll, do not want their every move on the web tracked and then this data sent to a third party. (The other 5% who voted for were VM Employee`s Namely Fuggly, Alex and Mark)

A friend has had problems since Monday where she got messages about "unable to connect to the server" when trying to access the internet. She went through the Tiscali uninstall/re-install procedure (several times) to no avail. Now she has 2 green lights on the speedtouch 330 but still gets the error message. Is this likely to be due to the outage messages on the service status page or could it be...

Why is Virgin Media asking customers for their passwords? Because either it is stupid, or thinks its customers are. All they need now is someone to say that fibre optic is killin the planet, and that'll be it. They've had nothing but bad luck since NTL started runnin the place. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/21/virginmedia.privacy

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