I've had a ClaraNet ADSL 512K connection for a couple of years. It's been very stable and performance has always been good. Suddenly it's all gone wrong. For the last two days, performance has been crap: very often the browser will time out on DNS lookup. It will right itself for a few minutes then it's crap again. There doesn't appear to be any pattern to the problems such as happening at a...

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:28:59 +0100, "Goofball" wrote: I understand the basics of port forwarding when using an ADSL router but can someone please answer some of these questions: 1. Do you need a software firewall if you do no explicitly forward any ports on your router? Yes to cover outgoing traffic like viruses and trojans.

For many years I've been using a "smart dialer" programmed to dial "140" automatically before most calls so that they route through SkyTalk. As we have line rental from BT and get around £5/quarter of free local/national calls, to use this allowance every now and then we press "##" to bypass the smart dialer and route through BT. Fine, but 1 August we got ADSL broadband. The router works a...

Goofball said: I understand the basics of port forwarding when using an ADSL router but can someone please answer some of these questions: 1. Do you need a software firewall if you do no explicitly forward any ports on your router? In my experience, no. The router will either stealthily ignore incoming traffic or report back the the port is "closed". It goes no further.

I phoned PlusNet yesterday and they tell me that my aacount will become active on the 13th of this month. A neighbour of mine has been signed up with BT to get ADSL for over 3 months, but he was told that his ADSL will become activated on the 20th of this month? Is it likely that PlusNet have the date wrong, or is there a chance I could get activated before my neighbour, even though he ordered...

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:16:41 +0100, chris wrote: How exactly do you do this? Do you block all ports after a certain number, or do you just block the known ports that these P2P clients use? If the latter is the case, what is to stop me either config'ing these clients to use port 80 (as people at Uni did when our backward admin's tried to restrict our service) or...

"chris" wrote in message ... On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 17:34:32 +0100 and in article , Peter Morgan - 0870 432 9631 said... : On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:16:41 +0100, chris wrote: : : How exactly do you do this? : : Do you seriously expect an answer to...

Hi I would like to buy an ASDL modem with an ethernet interface to plug into my firewall pc. The firewall PC handles the DNS, NAT etc. Would you please let me know which one you would recommend and why Many thanks Steve

What horsepower of cpu do I need to run an alcatel usb modem on a _dedicated_ firewall (eg running smoothwall or ipcop, or their windows equivalents)? (I was hoping to get away with a K5-75 from the scrap-box so I didn't need a fan, but saw a post recently implying these usb devices were similar to win modems in terms of cpu overhead...) Bob

Hi, I am so peeved off given the amount of advertising of broadband to find it is not as available as BT would like you to think. We are about to move house and I just checked our new postcode Here is the reply. If Broadband from BT is made available in your area, a preliminary check on your postcode suggests you may be able to order it (although you are on the distance limit of being able to...

It's coming next week. I order the self-install kit and I was wondering what it is I actually have to do to get it up-and-running? Cheers. Bobby

Hi Been waiting for my starter pack from +net and now told it's been sent today. If I get it by thurs,if I can get it setup ok,what happens if I turn *all*power off and unplug??,going away for a few days I like to unplug all comp stuff in case of storms. When power is turned back on does router automatically log back on to +net,??or synch??.

origo ASR-8100 / ASR-8400 Can anybody tell me anything about the above asdl modem / router. Does it have a built in firewall and if so is it any good Will it be ok for home networking. thanks

How do I protect myself now that I am online 24 hrs per day. I have a basic adsl modem, with currently no protection. I am running Windows 98 Second edition. What are my options. I am running Norton's antivirus 2003 does this mean that I should be using Norton Firewall? Zone Alarm has been recommended. Anybody any comments?

Hoping to get the above and have a couple of queries. From what I've seen the best setup would appear to be through a router, yes or no ? If yes whats a good make ? Have two pc in the house mine and my mums, Is there a cheap wireless solution

Hi all, Anybody else having problems with COMSAL ? http://www.comsal.co.uk I placed an order with them last Thursday but their On-Line Store link has been down since Friday. Its back up again as of lunchtime today, but they're not answering the phones. I was rather looking forward to being "on broadband" by now, but I'm beginning to have my doubts. At least the order hasn't been processed by my

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:21:43 +0100, "djk" wrote: Hi, Can you use kazaa with plusnet adsl.? Hi DJK, You certainly can use kazaa with our ADSL Home package as there are no

"djk" wrote in message ... Hi, Can you use kazaa with plusnet adsl.? If not, why? Is there any other adsl isp's that do allow you to use kazaa?

I believe it's only P2P which is disabled. You can set up filters on your Outlook Express to deal with multiple email addresses in various ways. You can upgrade any time, PlusNet is not going to turn down the extra moneys, not to mention there is just one month notice anyways. No, BT will do the testing at installation time. One way out is to buy your equipment from PC World, you can take it...

I asked before, but I'm hoping the header wasn't descriptive enough for anyone to bother looking. The alternative is that no-one has actually done this yet, which I can't believe. I want to be able to connect my PC downstairs to the internet without having the PC upstairs turned on; likewise with my laptop. Question is, how do I get this to work? Here's what I have so far: ADSL Nation X-Modem...