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Plusnet and Tiscalli - are they SO bad??
As far as I can gather, these are the 2 cheapest unlimited broadband packages. But all I seem to see is everyone saying 'dont go near them, theyre awful' especially for Tiscalli. Could anyone explain to me why they are thought of as so bad, cos whenever anyone says theyre rubbish, they never give a reason? And if they are…
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internet access abroad
with my wife and kids (10 & 12) we are going travelling next year for circa 9 months - visiting USA/ Canada/ New Zealand etc. We have bought a laptop to take with us and will want to have internet access on the go. How are we best to arrange this - the laptop has intel centrino so where there is a wifi hotspot we should be…
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Wireless Broadband at new home
Just moved house and I am looking to see who is offering the best deals at the moment, would prefer wireless broadband so i could use my psp too. is anyone doing any good deals at the moment?
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Martin's article - getting broadband requires upgrading the phone-line?
I read on Martin's article here that people getting broadband for the first time will have to upgrade their phone line. I've never heard of this before and was hoping that someone could explain in what exact sense my phoneline needs upgrading.
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Homechoice - any reason I shouldn't get it?
I'm going to sign up for homechoice - I think- but before I sign my life away am just looking to find out if there's anything I should be aware of. We just have one laptop right now and we will be connecting it using the standard (wired) connection, and thinking about going wireless a bit further down the line. So…
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Tiscali Broadband
Hi all, I need a bit of advice. I cancelled my Tiscali broadband service after around three months at the beginning of the year after poor service. The speeds i was getting were well below those advertisied. After abit of arguing they agreed to cancel the contract. They sent me a bill for £40 for internet usage and…
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Looking for combo ISP/phone NOT Bulldog
I want to change my ISP/phone provider from Bulldog. Can anyone please advise on the best combo ISP/tel. I am currently on a £40/mth package. I'm looking for a combo at this price or less, but need good service when things go wrong. I have read the boards and checked out a few recommendations but it seems because Bulldog…
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Broadband with free connection/modem?
Hi all,been looking at the cheapest providers on here and the adsl site,but when i add together price of modem/connection,as im coming from dial-up,it bumps the price up a fair bit,about £80 on top of the monthly payments. The only 2 that offer free connection/modem is Pipex and Wanadoo,with 2mb speed at £14.99.Wandoo…
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Who's best provider for broadband?
We've just finished a 12month contract with AOL. Not had too many problems with them, but am wondering if we're getting the best value for our money. We don't do too much downloading etc.... Should we stick with AOL or can we do better? Thanks in advance.
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Tiscali £9.99 deal
For those of you that are on this deal, did you expect or know that this was plus VAT - ie £11.73?
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installation queries
Putting my postcode into the availability checker, I got the response that 512 broadband was available but due to the length of my connection, broadband may have to be installed by an engineer - will I have to pay for this? Also it said that I had services or equipment incompatible with broadband at the address and these…
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please help
At the moment I am on aol silver any time 512 speed i think, can I get any thing cheaper, havent a clue about how it all works. am on the net all the while so need somthing that can cope with that and wont cost a fortune, I'm quite happy with the connection speed, although if I can get faster for cheaper I wont complain.…
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Usb v Nic
Hi a friend has just had 2meg telewest installed but didnt have a nic card so it is connected through USB. Will this make a big diffrence in speed transfer ??? I noticed the highest hes getting is about 50 but my step dad has the same 2mg going throu a nic and gets anything up to 120 Ta
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ADSL Max?
Anybody know what "ADSL Max" is?? This is what my BT line report says: Your exchange is ADSL enabled, and our initial test on your line indicates that your line should be able to have an ADSL broadband service that provides a line rate up to 512Kbps. However, due to the length of your line, an engineer visit may be…
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Telephone,Net and Sky
At the moment in my house we are paying around £54 per month for the telephone and internet with BT. It is internet broadbad and has a fairly good connection speed (2.2mbps i think). We also have sky in both my son and daughters rooms. They are both the normal sky box and as it was my son who got his box first, both of…
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No Broadband Capacity at Exchange
I have signed up for broadband, but have been told that the BT exchange "has not got spare capacity at the moment". The ISP tells me that they have contacted BT & have been told to contact them again next week for a further update on the problem. Is there anything I can do to "encourage" BT to pull their fingers out? It's…
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BT Broadband Blues
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/broadband/0,39020342,39239294,00.htm Please see attached, Explains all. :mad: :j Back up and running again a happy BT Broadband customer 2/12/05 :j
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tiscali wont let me dial up
i have been trying to dial up all day and when it is verifying username and password, it keeps coming up invalid user name and/or password, checked all my settings and set up a new connection to make sure and they are all correct, that didn't work so i phoned tiscali at 50p a min for them just to do the same. please help.
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Pay Up Front Broadband, is there such a thing
I would like to buy my father a years broadband connection for christmas as I'm leaving the country so it will be a good way to keep in touch. Is there any company that offers a years access paid up front (i.e. no monthly direct debit) as I don't want to keep money to cover it is a UK bank account or pay a fortune for…
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Broadband Useage Monitor
I have been told by BT that they cannot tell me how much data I use per month, therefore can decide properly if I can downgrade my oackage. Is there a site where I can download some software that will tell me ?
