Hi all, I am Mahidhar, doing my MS in Electrical Engineering from Louisiana tech university. I am doing my Thesis research work in Power line communications. I am searching for material for Power line communications. Please tell me which software is used to simulate PLC. waiting for your reply. -Mahidhar

Hi, I am using WBR G54 to connect to Internet. The Buffalo Airstation is connected to my Desktop PC (Dell - Windows XP home) thru cable and I am able to access the Internet using my ISP NTL Broadband (600kbps). The problem I have is when I try to access internet using my laptop (Sony - Centrino 1.6 - XP Professional) using the Airstation, I am not able to access the Internet. The WIRELESS LED on...

Hi there, I'm living with 3 other students and we'd like to set up a network in our house so that we can all share the same broadband connection. Knowing nothing about networking, I have no idea where to start looking for information, so wonder whether you could help? - what hardware do we need to buy to share a broadband connection between 4 computers (3x laptops, 1x desktop)? - how much will...

....and can someone please suggest the cheapest router that will do the job? i've already got an 8-port HP network hub (i think its a hub, it might be a switch) so i guess i`ll only need a 1-port router.

I'm trying to configure the new DLink DSL-G604T router to enable both static and NAT routing. So far all I've accomplished is totally blocking all my services so I feel it's time to shout for help! Scenario: I have a static IP subnet of eight addresses. Eg: 82.1.1.1 - 82.1.1.8 (255.255.255.248). The router sits on 82.1.1.2 which leaves me with five usable addresses. Four of these I want to...

So am i right in thinking if i buy an ADSL Router that i can bin my USB Speedtouch 330 modem alltogether and the router connects to the microfilter? And then i connect my two machines into the RJ45 ports on the router with normal network cables? If this is so, how does the connection work? Is the username and password for One.Tel stored on the router or do I need to install some software on the...

I am currently using 512K broadband as this is the only speed I can get due to my distance from my exchange. I have just been contacted by my ISP and informed that due to BT changing their broadband distance limits on 6th September, I may qualify for 1mbps. I'm assuming I'm over 3.5km from the exchange at the moment and I'm hoping that I am within 6km to qualify for 1mpbs after 6th...

Please could someone out there recommend a router to use with Bt Broadband USB connection, along with the best place on the web to purchase it from?, if possible it would be helpful if it has a USB print server as well. Many thanks in advance of any help. Stew

OK, Now we've got the topic of what we mean by SNR and SNR margin well staked out in its coffin... Now to the question I really wanted to ask :-) I have a 512kbps system working reliably at a downstream attenuation of say 55 to 65 db. What SNR/SNR Margin do I need to be seeing at 512kps to make it worthwhile trying to upgrade to 1Mbps...? (see notes)

Tesco are now offering broadband for £19.97 a month take a look http://www.tesco.net/help/broadband/ -- Phil From Scarborough UK

We've heard about interference by Internet services to radio reception. How about interference by high power broadcasters and nearby amateur radio stations to Internet services? It comes under the heading of bad signal-to-noise ratio. How do you know when you are suffering from it?

Are there any downsides moving from Pipex to PlusNet? Does PlusNet have an 0845 number for dialup access if you are away from home? Does PlusNet have customers services at least as good as Pipex? Are there any downsides to PlusNet compared to Pipex? AMO

Colin Wilson wrote: I moved to a router/modem and haven`t had a problem since, although I did uprate my processor a few months afterwards. Does this mean I'd have to upgrade to a router? Doesn't that negate the point of the Speedtouch 330 USB that one.tel gave me free?

My firewall keeps blocking attempts by this application made to 62.241.160.200:53 I initially thought someone was trying to hack me but doing a tracert reveals it to be one of pipex's internal computers or something! But when my firewall starts blocking attempts made to this address I cannot browse the web using internet explorer or opera. However, bittorrent stills continues to upload and...

Hi there, I've got a second phone line, as some of you might have read in my last post, BT have disconnected my service, I told them I no longer wish to have it back and paid the £60 fee. I'm looking for another Broadband to go on my other BT line, and I don't want to pay any kind of set-up fees like demon and some others do.. Has anyone got any ideas?

I have just migrated from Dial Up to BT Yahoo broadband. I am using Windows Explorer and MS Win XP. When I try to save a web page (File, Save As) to my desktop it seems to save it as a notepad file, not a HTML document. Also the Notepad looks like an exe file. Can anyone help as to what this is and why its doing it. Joy

Just moved to Broadband - using a Netgear DB834 on a fairly new PC with built-in Ethernet (Realtek RTL8169/8110 Ethernet NIC) running Win XP SP1. The modem goes into the setup on http\\192.168.0.1 OK but will not connect to the internet. Going through the M/Soft Newtork Wizard wouldn't create a connection either because it only offers PPPoE. PPPoA is not available. The Netgear setup is set to...

Hi, This may help some people comparing news posts. Really shows how poor some isp's retention is. I guess you get what you pay for. zeebop

Does anyone know of a Fax programme that can be used in conjunction with BT Broadband. I used to have Home Highway and could use Speedway fax but it does not appear to work with Broadband. Thanks in advance

I connect to the Internet using Wanadoo broadband and send mail using the Wanadoo SMTP server, but have my own domain, hosted by freeparking.co.uk, who automatically forward email addressed to that domain to my Wanadoo account. My normal practice when sending emails is to blind copy them to my own domain, for filing purposes and as a sort of check that they've been sent properly. This...