broadband

Have been with TalkTalk on standard (up to 17Mb) broadband for nearly a year. They have just contacted to advise a price increase at the end of the contract or the option to move onto another fixed price deal, saving £7.00/month or changing to Fibre (up to 38Mb), saving £0.45/month Generally...

As per title we will be in a no-wifi place for three weeks in Italy and I will need to catch up on some paperwork while away (penance for saying yes to 3 weeks!!!). Will be taking laptop, tablet, dual sim mobile (although only really need to use one of the sims for calls/texts while there). Mrs...

Is something I know nothing about. If, say a building is cabled, can any ISP use it, or does it belong to particular provider? As I say, I know nothing about this and can't find anything on line. Currently I'm on a steam system:D

I've stumbled on a problem regarding my broadband speed and need someone who knows how these things work for some advice. Basically, I moved to a new house 7 years ago, no fibre optic in the area, only your normal BT phone cables and some distance from the nearest exchange too. BT said 1Mb/s...

I'm now able to change broadband/telephone provider (at the end of a 12 month tie-in) I thought I would probably go to Sky But then Plusnet get good reviews But then TalkTalk is seriously cheap Any opinions for or against any of the above?

Just a heads up for Sky Broadband users they are offering a free Wireless Booster for existing customers until the 30th of Jan 2014. http://www.sky.com/shop/offers/wireless-booster?refererIs=skyid&ExistingCustomer=true&returnToAuthFilter=true

At home we have a number of PC's running on a single SKY broadband connection, including a wireless laptop, however, one of them is particularly slow and keeps buffering. It is an old XP spec desktop machine with only 2Gb ram, but even though task manager says the processor is only at about...

I just got an email from BT stating that they are increasing prices by 6.5% or thereabout... (What happened to keeping inflation low?) Also, they were retiring some price plans... Anyhow, I logged in to my account to see what the actual damage was, and noticed that they tell you how much data...

I have BT Infinity 1 broadband, with my line rated at 38 Mb/s. I use 500 mbps DLAN adapters between the hub (router) and PC. When I run a speed test (speedtest.net) on my PC it reports around 35-38 Mb/s. At 8 bits/byte, the LAN adapters can theoretically pass up to 62 Mb/s so that seems...

Help Please. Where I live BT cannot/will not commit to more then .5Mgb Broadband speed. Yes I know it s 2013 and you see ads for BT delivering 20Mgb.... Howver after 12 years of writing, pleading, begging, campaigning we still have BT saying that we need to wait for Fiber to be installed (no...

Hi all I need to find an inexpensive way to boost a broadband signal . Is there such a device that you can plug into your router , or connect in series that will extend the range of a broadband signal ? Like a signal amplifier or something ? Basically i need to increase the range of...

Im really a bit thick when it comes to this. Several weeks ago a BT Openreach engineer visited as I had terrible noise on the phone line. He was ace and fixed the problem. Then 3 days ago we had a really bad electrical storm, serious lightening and after it had passed, my telephone didnt work...

Friday, 6.30pm...my 40meg Infinity broadband is currently running at 0.05meg. Is anyone else's running slow too? The BT help page says the problem is ongoing but can't find anything else on the net about it?

I am looking for the best Broadband only deal. Ideally a network that doesn't grind to a near halt from 2pm..and also has good customer service when you need to call them. Can anyone recommend a good provider that doesn't cost a bomb? By the way, avoid Tiscali, they are pants :( Cheers Steve

I hope this is not a silly question. I use BT Internet as my provider. Recently I got an email warning me that I was coming near to my monthly usage limit. I have a very slow broadband speed -on checking with BT, it says it is between 0.256 -2MB with estimated speed 1MB (?) My question is -...

I'm starting to think "my ****" now... I'm with these guys but today they've emailed me pushing an add-on. Have a look at the following page. Namely the first blue chart 'How does it work', and then expand the drop down a bit further down labelled 'How is traffic prioritised?'...

hi , I have had broadband from virgin for years with no problems. I have had there superhub fitted which is indeed around 50 meg but it continually reboots itself and sometimes doesnt come back on. Virgin are adament that all is ok any idea anyone? many thanks

Hi all Orange ( my BB provider ) are terrible , to the point that the BB is more or less unusable in the evening. So we want to switch. I don't need it to be lightning fast ( 10mb is fine ) , i never download films , or play games , i just use it for surfing the net. We have Virgin...

Although I pay O2 for 8 mbps my line is only rated at 3.5 (due to distance from exchange). Typical actual speed was about 2.5, measured by Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test After talking to a colleague at work I tried changing the microfilter that the router was attached to for...

At the end of last year I bought a second home – a cottage in the sticks with over half an acre. Although I haven't checked, I think I would have to pay BT's connection charge if I want to re-instate a landline. So I'm attempting to drag myself out from the dark ages and am swotting up on...