Tiscali incompatible with Windows 7?

KillerWatt

usignuolo wrote: »

Thanks for that everyone we have now got it working, but I still don't understand why it should be assumed that everyone out there has a network and a router which is supporting wifi devices.

Wi-Fi routers have been the "de facto" standard for quite a while now, so much so that pretty much every ISP gives them away these days.

usignuolo

Well Tiscali which is a pretty big operation, doesn't. Since the usb modems it used to supplied, cannot be upgraded to Win 7, it has pretty much washed its hands of Win 7 users. Just tells them to buy a router and get on with it on their own. Cost of service is not reduced as a result however. Plus as I understand it Virgin only gives afree router to new customers signing up for the 20mb service or higher. Existing customers would have to sign up for 50mb (which of course costs extra) to get one.

weegie.geek

Virgin provide a modem with ethernet and USB. The ethernet, at least, will work on pretty much anything. If you then want to share the internet between more than one machine, or use it wirelessly, it'll cost you more. That's not necessary though, only if you want to.

With Tiscali, you NEED to buy a different modem or router to use their service with Win7. The newest version of a MS OS should be supported, and the fact that it's not is inexcusable. Use it as a reason to jump ship to a decent ISP.

DVardysShadow

weegie.geek wrote: »

... With Tiscali, you NEED to buy a different modem or router to use their service with Win7. The newest version of a MS OS should be supported, and the fact that it's not is inexcusable. Use it as a reason to jump ship to a decent ISP.

AFAICS, W7 is supported. It is modems which are not supported. And I think that is probably for the best. I can't see much mileage in ADSL modems these days if ever - I have always used a router since moving from dialup

weegie.geek

Tiscali provide the modem. They provide a modem which doesn't have driver support in W7. Given that every new PC sold these days will have W7, it's crazy that they'd keep providing these modems.

GunJack

the modems that tiscali gave away are now ancient, and they stopped giving them away a good couple of years ago, and instead gave out routers (first, the chronic siemens gigaset, latterly tg585v7's). e.g. I originally got a sagem f@st 800 from them, in the days when routers were not at all common.

I recon not supporting the old modems was actually a positive move by them, let's face it, the modem technology in routers is so much better now, and bb speeds are far higher than when the old modems were designed. They simply don't cope as well these days

tronator

GunJack wrote: »

I recon not supporting the old modems was actually a positive move by them, let's face it, the modem technology in routers is so much better now, and bb speeds are far higher than when the old modems were designed. They simply don't cope as well these days

And don't forget gaining security when using a router...