Can anyone recommend a good wireless ADSL router (ie ADSL modem with 4 Ethernet ports and a wireless access point)? I see that PC World sell the Linksys WRT54G-UK for £150. This includes Norton Internet Security with a 60-day trial period - I presume this means that you don't get the normal one-year subscription (which then has to be renewed annually) that you get with the off-the-shelf product....

If you think of the following scenario... You are running a FTP and people are downloading from you at a constant 30k (assuming you have a 512k ADSL) and then you start to download from a known fast source and expect to download at around 60k it will not happen unless you throttle your upload to allow acknowledgement packets to be sent to where you are downloading from. When you are downloading...

In article , (Toby Mathews) wrote: Can any of you Vigor 2600We devotees help me out? My colleague and I both work from home via 2600We's, however having downloaded Messenger 6 we can no longer get voice chat's to work. We've both installed the most recent firmware on the routers and enabled everything under uPnP in the...

"Craig Henry" wrote: Ok, So I've gone forth and bought myself a nice new shiny Zoom X4 ADSL Modem. Just a few questions 1. Can I use the plusnet setup pages for the solwise in terms of setting up though putting in the ip address of my router for setting up my

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:41:43 +0100, "f@ke" wrote: Not got ADSL yet but on my 56k modem uploading slows down my download speeds or vice versa. Is this the same with ADSL? It will have some effect, but is far less pronounced due to the increased bandwidth. In other words, don't worry about it. Andrew.

I am currently having a problem getting my new BT3021 access point (tecom) to work. The device appears in bluetooth neighbourhood with an IP address allocated by my network. However, when I try to pair the device, I get authentication failure and also, when I run LOCATE, no device appears in the list. Does anyone have any experience with this config. Is there perhaps a compatibility issue with...

I'm interested in the £30 option that Bulldog is currently touting for 2Mbps off-peak. At present I'm on 512k with Zen. What's the binary newsgroup coverage like and is there any download limits?

In the next 3 months, when the IT dept can pull their finger out, we should be getting our office running with a VPN. The question is, will my DG814 (which I run from home) be capable? The Netgear web-site says it has "VPN pass-through protection" but I've heard so much about how buggy the firmware can be that I'd really like a view from an owner that has actually used VPN (and what firware...

Hi, our office ADSL connection drops everyday approx 2 to 4pm !!! & then won't stay 'up' for more than about 40mins... system tray lights got red- needs a re-boot to cure it, but as I say 40 odd mins later drops again. line used for fax, have been asked to swap filters around - to which we have fitted new ones ! line is fine during fax transmission & receiving.

Saw on the news to night about people being online with Broadband using electric cables. This is up in Scotland but sadly I can't find a story on the net. I even tried the BBC website. Comments? anyone else hear of this?

Saw there advert in Metro paper and was gobsmacked at their offfering of 2MB ADSL at 24.99 exc. vat. Get PrimeTime 2000 now and enjoy its blistering 2Mb service for the same price as PrimeTime 1000. That's just £24.99 (ex VAT) per month (£29.36 inc VAT) for a service that delivers 4 times the performance of many well-known 512K services at the same price. Offer only applies to new customers for...

Hi, I am having Home500 installed this week and need to make a choice of router. I currently have an 8-port hub and want to hook up 3 or 4 PCs. Do I need a multi (say 4 or 8) port router or can I use a single-port router and plug my hub into that? I would also like an easily-configurable firewall in the router. Pros and cons and advice much appreciated.

Living out in the sticks, it seems the only viable option for my village is to talk to wireless broadband providers, and there are two that seem to be locally touting for business. Their approach seems to be a 2Mb/s leased line to a central point in the village, and then all subscribers take a signal from that central point. The services are offered at 256 Kb/s and 512 Kb/s downstream with 256...

Pete Stockdale wrote: Is it possible/feasible to have two pc, that are situated close together, connected to broadband via a single standard USB ADSL Modem so that either of them can go on-line but with only one pc on-line at any one time? Thanks.

On 23 Jul 2003 16:28 "Clueless" wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3089319.stm So BT get away with using Dax services, shouldnt we lobby Oftel to include greater than 33.6 as the minimum net access ? If you believe you "must" have faster, then there are two ways to achieve it - (a) move so you can get a faster connection, or (b) pay for leased line....

Something odd has started happening the last couple of days - and I don't know whether it is due to some update to NIS or irregular activity on my PC. No weird programs running on my PC (as far as I know) but as soon as I enable ADSL connection, I get repeated messages about svchost.exe trying to access internet (to different IP addresses) e.g.: "Program c:\winnt\system32\svchost.exe Protocol:...

I have a 3COM 8 port 100baseT switch. My Zoom router is plugged in to the uplink port. My house is due to undergo some renovation in a few months so I will need 3 computers networked in my lounge. I currently have 30m of cable running in to the lounge supplying one computer coming from my switch/router upstairs. My question is how do I go about networking these 4 computers instead of just 1...

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 21:08:25 +0100, Mike Barnard wrote: Hi. I used to be with giganews, but that was a few years ago. Before I sign back up with them, has there been any improvement in binary servers in the UK or Europe? Who do you reccomend? Having recently signed up to Giganews migration from Newsfeeds, who

If it's just for web browsing or downloading music that PC will be ok. It should handle XP fine (XP min specs 233mhz, 64mb RAM), but if you don't want to spend too much on XP, or don't want to waste 1.2Gb of HDD space, 98SE should be fine on that system, and you will be able to run at full speed 512k, no trouble.

"foreverArsenal" wrote in message ... Hi I've been reading all posts on this group for a few weeks now trying to get an understanding of ADSL,some I understand,some are just to hi-tech for me (getting old) . Any how I've just signed up with Plus-net (yesterday),my exchange should go adsl on the 30th ...