Jay Posted July 22, 2004 Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 hi lads, I am thinking of going onto broadband any advice on which one to use. cheers jay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted July 22, 2004 Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 It depends what your requirements are. I use Wanadoo (Freeserve) Anytime Broadband and have never had any problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrie0 Posted July 22, 2004 Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 All the info you need . http://www.adslguide.org.uk/ Don't know if it's in your area but I use telewest blueyonder cable I get 750k for £25 had it for about a year now and it's never been down once . Email servers have been down a few times though . One thing to look out for is a download cap on some service providers ie they advertise cheap deals but you are only allowed to download so much per month . Anyway plenty of reviews on the above link . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
white fox Posted July 22, 2004 Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 We use tiscali broadband, didn't use their USB modem but bought a Netgear wireless router, so that more than one computer is online at the same time. It also acts as a H/W firewall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrie0 Posted July 22, 2004 Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 The tiscali green frog modem A lot of people have problems with these as they take to much power from the usb port (design fault) , Best thing if any one uses one is a usb powered hub . As White Fox says a router is a good choice as well as I have 3 computers hooked up to my broadband connection (1 for me xp ,1 for her xp ,and 1 dual boot 2000/98)with a dlink 604 router £35 (ethernet cables) with a built in hw firewall as well . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highdowns hunter Posted July 22, 2004 Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 Im the same as Cranfield (Wanadoo) Only had it for 2 weeks and its very fast and had no problems so far apart from having to wait for 10 days after the free modem arrived to be connected Make sure you buy enough filters to go on your phone extensions though they only give you 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nilly71 Posted July 22, 2004 Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 I use a pay as you go broadband www.metronet.co.uk its on all day in this house, the most it cost for me in one month is £16 for 512k. I mainly use it for browsing if you use it for downloading movies etc it will cost more. Prices start at £10 + Vat for 512k and are peeked at £23, it wont go over £23 no matter how much you use it. who ever you choose type it in the address bar and add forum after it, all people talking about that purticulare broadband will be there. Neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted July 22, 2004 Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 AOL 9.0 no problems so far 24-99 a month. LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadSpringer Posted July 22, 2004 Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 Plusnet is a quality service! No long contracts! http://www.plus.net Look here for ISP reviews http://www.ispreview.co.uk/ Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyni Posted July 22, 2004 Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 All the info you need . http://www.adslguide.org.uk/ Barrie0 has posted the link ya need All I can add is stay away from the mainstream ISP's which if ya read the reviews ya can get the picture. also I would advise ya not to take the provided modem/router as they cost a fortune compared to waht ya can buy on various sites. Configuring a router to enable games/peer2peer downloading/filesharing can be a nightmare so If ya wanna go that route buy a good brandname and to check that out have a read at a good informative site called Portforward.com It will let ya know how to configure your router and if its not on there its not that well known. I have been down this route and whilst a router is undoubtably a good safe tool for internet use is can cause problems if you are inexperienced with setting them up for open ports (read first about this it will save you money). If all you do is surf the net then an ordinary 56k modem will do but if ya want to download movie streams music etc then don't waste your time get a broadband connection you will not look back. The ISP providers have made the cost margin so small between a 56k exchange and a broadband exchange so small (diliberate on there part) its hardly worth contemplating the 56k speed, £4-£7 per month. One last note which has said before if you download a lot then read about the extra cost involved beforehand which is explained on the link Barrie0 gave earlier. If the information given is over the top of peoples head just take the timeto read about it. IMO Freedom2surf and Plusnet have to be the top providers at the moment. Cheers Jonny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadSpringer Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 good informative site called Portforward.com Good link Jonnyni! Useful info on game ports. If you download & share using P2P then it is good practice to create a seperate partition for your downloads and shared files. Scan regularly! I'm sure you probably do this already! Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyni Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 If you download & share using P2P then it is good practice to create a seperate partition for your downloads and shared files. Scan regularly! I'm sure you probably do this already! Cheers I already do, but its a very good bit of advise I left out (didn't want to complicate things too much) in fact its a must in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrie0 Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 Jonnyni and Madspringer Which is your favourite P2P I have used kazza ,soulseek ,win mx and shareaza but my Favourite is Bittorrent if you use this I have found a good search page . Its not working today though . http://www.bitoogle.com/ As madspringer says I have always partitioned my disks into 2 as if your os goes down you can format that partition reinstall ,but still have all your downloads,data ,etc on the other partition (I always ghost the c drive onto the d as well using drive image,5 min reinstall of os+ all programs+settings , Had to do this last weekend as girlfriend had'nt shut down the computer properley causing all user accounts to become corrupt. ) Dug out hirens boot cd and 5 mins later all back to normal . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadSpringer Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 KazzaLite Tried WinMX & Shareaza. Good practice to ghost an image of your OS drive, also pays to make regular backups of all your data too! Just incase your HD fails. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyni Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 i am trying at the moment Sharaza (some problems that I am trying to sort out) WinMX (Good for music but long waiting times for downloads) Bttorrent (again some teething problems with download speeds) DC++ (good speeds but they are direct downloads so the user has to be online to download from) I will try kazzalite this soon. I am looking for download speeds of 30-50 KBs now thats KBs not Kbs which is 8 times slower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the last engineer Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 jonnyni, go very carefull with kazzalite, had it for a few years now had loads of probs with virus infects even with norton pro and firewalls ,tread carefull is all i can say other than that it has great tunes and the like . martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyni Posted July 24, 2004 Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 i sacn every file I download. Norton ain't a great virus protector or scanner they are very slow at updating there virus definitions. Cheers anyway cause warning me warns everyone else Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted July 26, 2004 Report Share Posted July 26, 2004 Jonny, you scare me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyni Posted July 27, 2004 Report Share Posted July 27, 2004 Tried to have a go at kazzalite but ya have to PAY for it nahhhh will not be doing that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadSpringer Posted July 27, 2004 Report Share Posted July 27, 2004 Jonnyni I will email you the free version later! Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza Posted July 27, 2004 Report Share Posted July 27, 2004 JONNY USE THE VERSION WITH ADS THEN GO TO MAJORGEEKS.COM AND GET A FREE PROGRAM FOR REMOVING THE ADS! SORTED! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozo Posted August 1, 2004 Report Share Posted August 1, 2004 i took off the ads but then kaaza wouldnt run :-(, werbouts u from in ulster daaza?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza Posted August 1, 2004 Report Share Posted August 1, 2004 co. down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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