BT have announced that from the 1st June 2004, the annual rental charge for BT DataStream lines will reduce from £86.60 ex VAT (£101.76 inc VAT) to £74.60 ex VAT (£87.66 inc VAT) http://www.serviceview.bt.com/list/notifs/26-05-2004/Wholesale_Broadband_Services.boo/1204_2004052114111324.htm Regards Sunil

Im looking to get broadband, but i would like to know if I do, will I still be able to use the 56k dial up modem on my work laptop ? Many thanks

I currently have ISDN with NDO and a Domain name that points email to the pop server at NDO. BT will be upgrading my exchange in the near future and I would like some pointers in what direction to go. Firstly, what are the logistics involved in hosting my own domain name and mail server? Would the server have to be on and connected 24/7? Would I need expensive software to do this or are there...

Purely out of curiosity what sort of figures would be expected from a functioning UK ADSL line? I note that my router reports line attenuation consistently at 54dB but the SNR fluctuates from 11 up to 20dB. Constructive comments would be welcomed. -- gee six jay en Replace the words with the numbers to email me

I`m new to this ADSL lark, my line status is "GGER", should my modem be locking onto a signal? I purchased a 2nd hand D-Link 300g+ from Ebay and abit concened if it works or not. Cheers

Hi, Can anyone advise please : Can the e-mail in VISPA's allias be separated by each allias username / password? Thanks Steve

I currently have a BT 2Mb SDSL line through a Cisco 800 series router, which is not as fast as I thought. I know BT have an informal limit of 50-60dB attenuation for ADSL, and I also know that SDSL has a lower limit. My SDSL attenuation is currently at 51dB: Actual rate: 2056 Kbps Modem Status: Data (0x1) Received SNR: 41 dB SNR Threshold: 23 dB Loop...

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Hi, On Plunet 512K ADSL, and happily for about 6 months now, netgear DG824M Wirless / 4 port ethernet router, windows XP Pro, Outlook 2003. Suddenly without changing any settings on my router of computer, Outlook is refusing to connect to 3 different POP3 servers from my various mail accounts. I can ping and tracert the POP servers from a DOS prompt and all are there and responding fine....

For some reason I have hundreds of spam in my in box. Nothing new there you say, but all of them have a future date, some as late as 14th june. Is this some new trick of the spammers TIA Mel.

Both seem to provide decent firewall and VPN endpoint, but Zyxel is suspiciously cheap - is there a catch? -- John A

Had an BT engineer out at my house today, a problem with the voice part of my service rather than ADSL. This guy told me he wasn't ADSL trained, but told me of an ADSL trained colleague who'd had experience of ADSL working (albeit *very* slowly) with only one wire out the copper pair working. Is this possible?

you have to resign up as they disconnect both phoneline and ADSL at the same time. I had that myself on a home line after the BT billing dept. that didn't process a payment on time, so was without phone and ADSL for 3 weeks. 3 weeks cause I couldn't afford the reconnection fee for both phone and ADSL in one go, so would have been 2 weeks.

if i use the bt incontact service with incoming calls only can i stil use broadband internet thanks

Looking at changing my NTL dial-up to Pipex Broadband. My question is solo lite 500 monthly bandwidth is 1 GB not sure what this is. I am on the net approx 3 hours a day, mostly web pages small amount of downloading, Is the 1 gig enough ???? Unlimited £4 per month more. Thanks John in Kent

ICBroadband offers cheaper activation http://snipurl.com/6nz1 More NTL ADSL details http://snipurl.com/6nyg Free phone calls on offer on your broadband http://snipurl.com/6nye (As per the article, Gossiptel have asked UK-Bug to review the hardware and service. A full review will be published on Bug when its available).

I connect to AOL broadband direct from my modem and use internet explorer. Over the last few days certain web sites won't load one is www.tesco.com anyone else having similar problems? -- Phil From Scarborough UK

You are not alone. See this thread: http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=eclipse&Number=1243621&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=0&fpart=2#Post1248664 -- ..

I seem to be getting packet loss with huge downloads, suppose it could be a router problem or just sods law. I'd be interested in feedback from any other f2s users on this and f2s in general. Cheers Jay

Hi there, is anyone else having problems with eBay at the moment? -- Warthog Spamtrap: Replace NOD with ndo