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Broadband & internet access

Archives for March 2007

best dial up please
can someone point me in the direction of the fastest dial up please i need this for a few days while i wait for my bband to go live,cheers cash.
Contacting Virgin? Re: Overcharging
Firsty may I commiserate (sp) with those of you that are experiencing problems of a similar nature with Virgin/NTL I found out a few months ago that I was being overcharged on my monthly bill. Despite me contacting them via letter, email, and also, sitting on the end of a telephone for what seems hours on end, and then…
BT Home Hub going slowwwww ...
I have recently been finding my internet connection just hanging so I reconnected my Linksys WAG54G and I am back up to speed again. Has anyone else had this problem with BT Home Hub? Why should it be? And is there a way to sort it out? Is it possible to connect the Home Hub to another socket to use the Home Hub phone…
Virgin Media Nightmare !!
I thought the 3 for £30 looked great, loads more channels than our current freeview, landline and free weekend calls and 2 Mb broadband, wonderful (BUT NO) Had all installed on Thursday afternoon, installation guy left mess everywhere and didn't move my furniture back from where it came and my DS 2ys stood on a cable…
Broadband rip off?
I recently upgraded from 2 meg to 8 meg, with unlimited downloads (within reason) Six quid a month difference. Obviously, I was told 8 meg was available on my line. I noticed absolutely no difference in speed, but forgot about it till I started having random disconnection problems. After a very long story involving many…
ISP's unlimited downloads
Hi everyone, I am new to this so, apologies if something similar has been posted. I am writing in regard to problems I am having with Toucan as my service provider. My partner and I went with Toucan initially because they offered unlimited downloads. However maybe it was our lack of investigation that prevented us from…
NTL/Virgin and Moorcroft Debt Recovery
I seem to have ended up in a dispute with NTL/Virgin and I'm not sure how to handle it. A quick summary: I used to have NTL broadband but cancelled it around August to move to an ADSL account elsewhere. Subsequently I have received bills from NTL saying I owe them nothing. So far so good. Then (in Feb, I think, might have…
help-its the first time changing broadband
Hi I need some help Am thinking of changing broadband companys,am currently with BT broadband (£17.99 per month) 12 month contract finished in FEB 2007 The service has been very good I am wanting to change to SKY (£5 per month) Please could you give me some advise Which company do i ring first SKY OR BT? and what happens…
Virgin broadband
After seeing that Virgin were offering BB at £10 per month I'd thought I'd take it up. Seems it is ONLY for those on cable though, this doesn't include me, what a diappointment. I'd got myself all fired up over nothing. :o
Long wait for broardband
I have recently moved house and signed up with Virgin Media over 10 days ago for 2MB cable broardband. I have recently been told that an engineer will install the service on 25th April 2007.:eek: That is over a four week wait from when I signed up and really just isn't good enough, especially as they don't offer free or…
dial-up on talk talk?
Hi, I'm on talk talk for my phone (waiting for broadband - but that's another story). Until broad band works I need to connect via dialup - not a huge amount - maybe ten hours a week or so. Any reccomendations - I notice that a few of the providers require a BT line Cheers Nick
ringtones for old nokia
I've got an old 3510 which does me well but I really fancy an air raid siren as a ringtone.;) Unfortunately all the ads I look at don't have my steam driven phone on their list. Does anyone know where I can download one from??:rotfl:
Another NTL non dd charge issue. I need advice!
This is a long story, I beg of you if you can help or know anything about this situation, please read on as I have run out of avenues to explore. All I ask is that you bear with me. OK. I have been an NTL customer for 7 years. In November of last year they wrote to me to inform me of this new charge. I wrote back to them…
Monitoring data throughput
Is there any way in xp of monitoring your data usage over the internet so that you can monitor your position wrt fair use policies?
broadband /bt phone question
i live with my parents that have a BT phone line... id like to sign up for broadband but notice alot include phone call packages is it possible for me to get broadband billed to me and leave thier BT phone line and bill unaffected? :o
broadband and download limits
okay im looking into getting broadband...maybe tescos as thats who im with now:confused: i see the package includes broadband at a stated speed and a download limit, now were online alot , maybe up to 12hrs a day between us . my question is how do i know what amount of downloads i would use? i dont want to sign up to a…
Plusnet offer and price cut....
I was thinking of switching to Sky from plusnet purely on price because I've never had a problem with plusnet in approx 2 yrs.I was intending to go to Sky's mid package at £5 pm compared to £14.99 with plusnet. I emailed for my MAC code on Mon eve and within 10 mins I got a call from plusnet offering me a month free to…
Best utilities company?
Hi, Ive just moved house and I need to sort out the phone/internet/TV. Ild like to have this with just one company to save hassle dealing with different companies. Ive heard TeleWest are good. I just wanted to know what people would reccommend. Im not interested in having 2000 different TV channels. I just want basic…
123-reg
Hi all, I've just paid for two domain names and web hosting with this company and have already had terrible tech support (e-mail forwarding not working at all) and no answer at all from their customer service number. Their parent company Pipex is playing it ignorant. I want to move hosts - can anybody recommend a good host…
Gmail access
Has anyone else experienced any problems receiving and sending gmail emails today? Thank you

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