Our exchange is to be broadband activated early November. When I moved into this house a couple of years ago I wanted 2 residential lines - one for the phone and one for fax/internet. BT connected a line splitting divice to the line to achieve this - so they can now charge me for two line rentals (even tho the speed of internet access on this split line is awful). I think it would pay me to go...

Hi Group, Just ordered my ADSL and before its activated i would like to sort out a network. The wife has a PC in her office in the house and I have an office in the external garage. I'd like them to share the ADSL but am struggling a bit. A couple of questions: 1. if we both had ADSL modems attached could we share the internet at the same time? or would i need a router for this? 2. Assuming I...

Just wanted to check on 1 Mbps or 2 Mbps service being OK. Can you confirm who actually supplies the ADSL connectivity ? A traceroute to say news.bbc.co.uk would be useful, and the part of the login user details after the "@" also handy... (From the past, dial-up access wasn't in-house but supplied by AIH, so is ADSL done on similar lines ?) Peter M.

My exchange is due to be enabled on Septembers 6th and I have signed up with Eclipse. They tell me that BT will not do a line check and thus give a me a date until on or after this date. A friend has signed up with BTO and he says he has been give an activation date of 17th September. Does this sound right, if so surely BT customers are surely being give preference over other ISPs.

Hi My Exchange server is in the US; I can use the outlook client from my PC if I dial up via freewire, or vodafone. However, if I use ADSL from btopenworld, since a week ago I have not been able to get messages from the server. Our US guys tell me they've had problems from ISP's who have been blocking 135 since the MSBLAST virus.

Hi, I have a USB adsl modem that works on the Tiscali network. However, I am also trying to connect my Copperjet 810 adsl modem from Holland through Ethernet to Tiscali UK, unsuccesfully. I set VCI to 38 (UK standard), but I still have no connection. The modem gives the normal lights that there is a connection, but when I try to send or receive data, nothing happens. I am not sure if this is...

Hi All I am interested in the Netgear FR314 Firewall/Router for my ADSL connection. I currently use a DG814, but I want a router with built in firewall. As the FR314 does not have an ADSL modem built in, I need an ethernet ADSL modem to connect to it. Does anyone have any reccomendations? One I have neen looking at is the D-Link DSL-300G+, would this work with the Netgear?

chris wrote in : On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:34:48 GMT and in article , BRG said... : When you do a port scan check using Shields Up! at grc.com's : site, the result is not good: : - most ports are closed, not stealthed : - ports 1025 and 5000 are open

Is there any news on the current 'extended range' ADSL trial ? Any glitches or failures? Phil

Anyone using freeserve broadband recommend a router? was thinking of netgear DG824M but some posts advising firmware unstable or is this still a problem and if anyone can point to router settings for broadband much appreciated had also thought of the BT voyager 2000 router but not much feedback on this new model ferg

I've recently gone broadband with Blueyonder (no choice since exchange nowhere near threshold for ADSL), and I wanted a similar setup to you right from the start. I started looking for a combination switch/router/Wireless Access Point, and having looked at various at between £60 and £90, I found the Adaptec AWN-8084 4-port wireless router from Amazon for only £49.99 so without much more looking...

Hi Having previously been a highly satisfied Blueyonder customer, I now find myself using NTLworld, and I'm not very impressed. I started with the 128k connection & then upgraded to the 600k connection but saw virtually no improvement. Consequently I have now downgraded back to the 128 connection, which is OK. What do you users think of the BT service, are you satisfied & would you recommend...

Hi, I'm still having trouble with the above modem router (see post "Ethernet crashes ..."), but it's definitely not down to the LAN. It seems that the more traffic is on the WAN network (evening etc), the more likely is the router to crash. I've already swapped the hardware, with no change whatsoever and my ISP (Virgin) is also unable to identify any problem. Has anybody experienced similar...

On 13 Aug 2003 20:14, chris wrote: You shouldn't publish private e-mails Interesting one... something in a radio drama recently suggested that a recipient held "ownership" of items, not the sender (these were letters) so while I can understand the 'decent' thing to do would be to maintain privacy, are there any precedents to show ownership of an item of e-mail or...

Hi... Can someone advise me how this works please When i do a search on Bt's adsl checker, im being told i could be able to receive broadband upto 2mbs,depending on line etc... Yet my next door neighbour(friend), get this message will only receive upto 512k ?

In article MT60b.146068$Oz4.40096@rwcrnsc54, Soapm wrote: I run eMule on my 1.5/768 ADSL connection. Everything will be going fine then all of a sudden all my uploaders will get kicked off and I loose all my download connections. This happens randomly (sometimes once a day and other times twice in 20 minutes). New upload connections begin within seconds of the disconnect. I called...

Is there an easy way of limiting computers on a private network to only use a specific amount of bandwidth. i.e. 25% share across the network and leaving the rest for the main computer to use. I'm using Xp pro! TIA Damian

I have found what seems to be a problem with the DG814 and wonder if other users could check it out to see if it is a general problem - I found one reference on Google about a year ago. If you go to http://scan.sygatetech.com/ check if these two 'common Trojan' ports ( 54321 and 12345) are shown as Closed rather than Blocked. On all our PCs connected to the DG814 they show as Closed...

Gareth Davies wrote: I know that Plusnet doesn't provide a proxy server for web access. I also know that Plusnet uses static IP addresses. I'm a bit concerned about the fact that these 2 things allow websites to identify me: I've already received what seems to be targetted spam from Network Associates to a non disclosed e-mail address I assume on the basis of visiting their website ...

I am thinking of getting the Nildram ADSL package, along with the USB modem they offer. Can I, at a later date, install a router using the existing USB modem? I have a Realtek RTL 8139/810X family fast Ethernet NIC card installed, and am running Windows XP (home). Many thanks for any information. - Peter James Change AT to @ to reply