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Archives for March 2007

is orange good?
i am considering to get the broadband service from orange, which i am only pay £5 for it, anyone could share their experience with me? thanks in advance. cheers
Agh - my head hurts - what ISP? Please Please help!!!
Hi everyone I know this question is asked millions and millions of times but I really am going ceeerazy here trying to choose which ISP to go with! My needs are fairly high, but i want it to be as cheap as possible (of course!)* I am always using the PC and we have a laptop and a PC on the same connection, often…
Aol
Hi folks, I am on AOL silver and in January I received an email from them saying my speed would be increased and I would receive an email once this has been done, not suprisingly I haven't heard anything else fron Aohell since. Has any silver subscribers had their speed increased?
Skype
My folks live in Spain and whilst I am using a cheap way of phoning them it is still costing £10 plus a months. I was planning to buy my dad a Skype hand set ( the USB type only ) for his birthday and get one for me too. I am BT Broadband but they only have unlimited dial up no Broadband where they live. Can't be doing…
Fed up with orange - where to go?
Have been with freeserve/wanadoo/orange for about 5 years now, mostly good, but in the last month the service has dropped substantially, with intermittent connection most evenings. Tech support has no clue why, so I want to leave. I'm on an LLU exchange, so my questions are 1. Do Orange do LLU macs? 2. Can anyone recommend…
Email hosting
Any info on good email hosts? I am OK with my website host (Easyspace) but having probs with the way they handle my email. So I'm looking for another host, pref no more than £15 a year. There seem to be thousands of companies offering this. Is it easy to switch or will Easyspace try to charge me to leave, does it work to…
Help - I'm moving house
I'm moving house and am swapping from Virgin to Sky - this means I'll have no broadband for 20 days and I need the internet for work. Can anyone reccommend a cheap reliable pay as you go dial up that I can use for about an hour a day for 20 days only - no contract obviously Thanks in Advance MR M
want out of tiscali? here's the way .....
i got a letter about their famous FUP and my over usage. i got one at the begining and stopped downloading. now im out of contract so i ingored them. and this was the result. :money: :beer: 14 March 2007 Dear Lewt Further to our previous two heavy usage warnings, this letter is to inform you that we have not seen any…
Virgin Media 20mb broadband upgrade from May 07'
I got a letter today from VM saying that from May 10mb broadband customers will be upgraded to 20mb with an increased upload speed of 768kbps which is a bit slow really. The price is also going up to £37 a month. It also says that in some cases a modem upgrade may be required to get the speed increase and to go to this…
Any body have tried BE Broadband (24 mb)
Hi, I ordered BE There broadband (https://www.bethere.co.uk) £24 per month with upto 24 mb download and 1.3 upload but depends on the distance from exchange i will be getting 17 mb minimum. I have found good reviews about the company. I order 4 days ago and my live will be activated on 29th :T WITHIN A WEEK. I have tried…
2mb unlimited broadband £10 a month ends 31.03.07 no line rental needed
Just seen this from virgin and if you are looking for just broadband without needing to pay a landline rental; £10.00 a month (for the first 12 months) No download limits Installation usually within 2 weeks and only £25 No phone line required 30 day money back guarantee Offer ends 31.03.07 Includes: A modem* - to connect…
Sky broadband help
Hello, I have a sky broadband connection, but it goes down every 10 to 15 minutes. The only way I can get it to start working again is to unplug the modem, and then reconnect it, I have already had to uninstall my firewall (Panda), and only have the windows firewall :eek:, but before that it wouldn't work at all. I've…
BT landline required for B'band
Probably a silly question but will ask anyway. I have a BT land line and am thinking about moving line rental to Post Office. Will my Broadband still be ok ?
Ending My Internet Contract
Is there any way of me getting out of my internet contract with my provider without payng the remainder of my contract (8 months x 15 pounds)? It's ridiculous that they want me to pay 120 quid for them to do naff all . It's bad enough my house burned down, which is why I'm cancelling it anyway, without paying the internet…
broadband speed test
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Cut monthly broadband subscription cost
Hi, i was considering moving my broadband and phone package from Demon / BT to Pipex Homecall. Rang Demon for my MAC nad they reduced my 8 meg home service from £19.99 to £17.99 no questions asked. Obviously you need to be outside or at the end of your contracted period. As an aside haven't moved to Pipex due to concerns…
Problems getting MAC code
tried twice to get MAC code from Onetel without success. The last attempt was last Monday. They agreed to send mac code within three days. Nothing has materialised. What's the best next step? Write and send it recorded delivery? Anything in particular to say?
Sky package - is this fair?
I ahve been looking for a new braodband package and while out shopping today came across a Sky stand with a great deal for broadband, phone and TV. We were told that we could take out their Sky TV package of 2 sets of channel for £15 per month, then for an extra £5 we could have free phone calls at anytime and also free…
cancelled BT Broadband - is this right ?
im out of contract,. i called up and said i wanted to cancel but they said to me it will happen in 30days (all that notice crap),. i said to the lady im out of contract so i can cut off went ever i need to, a 20 second pause and she replied it will be cut off in 24hrs. so now im thinking whatever heck happed there ????? i…
Tiscali - Illegal Direct Debit
I read on these forums once that if a Tiscali customer disputes a bill and cancels a Direct Debit Mandate that Tiscali will re-instate the mandate to recover what they believe to be owing. I now know that to be true! I cancelled mt Tiscali service in writing because I could not access HTTPS sites in the evenings. As the…

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