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Archives for February 2010

looking to change AOL broadband, but never had paper work on account number etc.
i set up home broadband via carphonewarehouse 24months ago soon with aol and free laptop deal. as it is coming to end of contract looking to move on to something cheaper or if there are other free laptop deals about. but who do i contact aol, carphonewarehouse etc.? i've not recieved any paperwork, bill for ages and not i…
3G dongle
Having replied to an offer for a free dongle for just 4.95 p&p in May 09 which was an offer on Martins weekly emai, I ordred, paid said p&p and received a few days later with no issues. i have received yesterday (Feb 10) an invoice from the company demanding payment for the shipping! There is no other explanation with it.…
3G dongle
Having replied to an offer for a free dongle for just 4.95 p&p in May 09 which was an offer on Martins weekly emai, I ordred, paid said p&p and received a few days later with no issues. i have received yesterday (Feb 10) an invoice from the company demanding payment for the shipping! There is no other explanation with it.…
Switched from Tiscali to O2.....
...and was having same speed of about 3.5mb. However on both home wired PC and wireless laptop changed to latest Firefox browser and now gettin almost 6mb d/l and 1mb u/l speeds!:beer:
BT Broadband. Charging me £25.00 to leave
Hi all, I want to leave BT Broadband to go with O2 BB. Just rang BT and they cant give me my MAC code as their system is down. They will e mail it to me within 5 days. When I asked her to confirm there will be no termination charges as I am no longer on a 12 month renewal contract, she advised me that BT will charge me…
Would like cheaper interenet
Good Morning, I would like to change my internet, I currently have Sky Connect which has been fine for the past year because of a !!!!-up by Sky when ordering they paid for my first year, but now I am going to have to start to pay £17 a month which seems a bit steep!. Apparently I live to far away from an exchange or…
LLU Enabled but not offered?
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/SLBWD As you can see my exchange is apparently enabled for LLU with AOL and TalkTalk - my area isnt cable. I rang up TalkTalk to get some info on them putting a new phone line in my new build and was only offered to normal ADSL, he said my max speed would be 2.5mbps (confirmed by…
Domain Renewal Group - A Warning...
I thought I'd just flag this up to warn other people on this forum, (although people here are pretty smart, so I can't see lots of people falling for this scam). Today I got a letter, (fairly professional looking, and designed to look official) telling me, "As a courtesy to domain name holders..." that my domain name will…
AOL / o2 ???
Had a visit from talk talk rep yesterday who told me that they had completed their work at our local exchange, and that I now need to change my contrct from AOL ( only just taken it out for 18 months) to talk talk, as it is the same company, and talk talk are trying to get everyone on the same contrct. When ( not if) I did…
AOL taking £14.99 since 2008 HELP!
Hi I joined talktalk in 2008 in order to accept a competition win, and called aol as I wanted to keep my old email. I was told it would cost me £14.99 to do so. This was purely to access my email. Last sunday, I called aol to see if I could get a reduction and was told email had been free since march 2008. I spoke to a…
Adding o2 Broadband to BT line???
How soon could / can you order o2 Broadband once BT take your Line Rental and calls back ?????? What is / was the waiting time from the time of ordering to get o2 Broadband added to bt line????? It is really amazing how cheap you can get o2 BB standard £7.50 to free when others charge a fortune!!! What's the catch??
What package would you suggest - currently on Sky
I have it all with Sky. Telephone line, internet (unlimited), free calls (costs £5 a month though), TV with 2 options. So I pay: Line rental - £11.00 Talk Unlimited - £5.00 Internet - £15.00 Discount - (£5.00) Sky TV 2 pack - £18.50 So without any calls, I pay £44.50 My contract is nearly up so I am looking around a bit.…
AOL still taking my money
hello, I have just been checking through old accounts and find that AOL are debiting my credite card by £2.49 /month and have been since I left them for Tiscali in August 08. I have had a refund once and told them to stop taking money.If I contact the AOL member services number they say it is the American company that is…
Mobile broadband with highest monthly allowance
What is the maximum monthly download allowance you have seen on mobile broadband? I move quite often, so would like to have mobile broadband rather than BT phone line. Also, most of the time I`m driving around and need internet access on my laptop.
MAC Code
I am with Tiscali/TalkTalk for my Internet Broadband, TalkTalk for my calls and BT for my line rental and am in the process of changing all three to TalkTalk. Will I need a MAC code from Tiscali/TalkTalk to change or will they do it automatically?
Desktop?
If you had a desktop on top of your other desktop, how would you access it ? Thank you Cxx
Need quick reply for question about cancelling BT broadband
Hi, I want to switch to 02 from BT broadband and need to give 14 days notice. If I give notice today, and get my mac code today, will it be ok to then go online to place order for 02 via cashback site today so that I can get the 70 pounds cashback befor the 28th Feb deadline? Or do I have to wait the 14 days before I can…
Virgin media causing me problems AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
After being with Virgin for my home broadband services for something in the region of 8 years, I moved home in December. I obviously alerted them to this which wasn't a problem. Once moved in I was given a date that my broadband wuld be active and was told that because of the move I would be starting a new 12 month…
We're after a new internet provider!!! (broadband)
please help we are a family of 2 teenagers one 17 one 20. a mum and dad. urmm. finally my Dad has decided to get rid of terrible virgin broadband (slow Speed ectt) (expensive) want it to be cheep, not cost alot setting up/installing. basicallly me and my sister are constantly online (as teenagers are) so we need good speed…
Well done BT
Yesterday i had to wipe my comp clean loosing everything,including my BT broadband.Phoned BT call center in India they checked everything as my daughters lap top was still connected to the hub it was a prob with mine.BT managed to access my comp and she spent nearly 1 hour sorting out my wireless connection.(nothing to do…

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