broadband

Moved into a new house a few weeks ago and had to wait the best part of 3 weeks for an engineer to come and connect up our land line. That was done on Monday, so yesterday I call Orange to ask how long till I get my new router and can get properly on-line and they tell me 'up to 10 working...

Hi all. Had broadband with VM for years. I don't normally get a problem with net access, but at the moment there are a load of websites I cannot access - just get server timeouts. One of them is speedtest.net. Just wondered if anybody else is having the same problems? Stu.

Their service and customer care are truly crap, as in proper, proper crap. I have experienced and remain mentally scarred by Virgin Media, who in my eyes have held the trophy for providing the worst customer care. Up until this week I firmly believed that no other company anywhere on on the...

We live in the sticks, so cable isn't an option, is there any way of getting a phone line without using BT?

Can anyone tell me why my router is blocking Photobucket and ebay? It has been intermittent over the last week or two but a reset would usually fix it. Now it's no go at all. I have tried on XP, Windows7 (IE and Firefox) and the Mac so definitely router/modem/something else. I have recently...

my internet is damn slow! when i get the task manager up and go on networking it says "Network utilization: 0.17%" or a number around that... does this mean my internet could be fast?

Hi computer peeps ;) I have my Dell inspiron with 'Ubuntu' system - I connected it to the cable upstairs and it worked immediately. Struggling now with the 3 broadband dongle - when I installed it on the WIndows powered 1501 laptop you plug the dongle in and it tells you what to do and away...

anyone on it as i am through virgin and just recent it drop out all the time ie pages don`t load and same on my xbox360 now i`m on a netgear router and is it that or just bt crap lines ,anyone else get this

For less than I'm paying for their 20mb! :D Yesterday I was browsing their website reading about their new 50mb Broadband, I thought, I fancy some of that! It normally costs £50 a month if you just have the broadband on it's own but they have a deal up where if you have their Phone Line aswell...

Does anyone else constantly struggle with the connection? The telephone and TV work ok apart from the on-demand services and the broadband is down an awful lot and its very frustrating ...... or is it just me? Am currently using someone elses connection cus I cant get on the one Im paying for...

is the us robotics 9106 adsl2 compatible ? compatible ? im trying to find the answer for my cousin thats broad bands gone down but i dont really understand the question many thanks d

I just want to see if anyone else has this problem or if anyone has any suggestions before I ring them up. :) I recently upgraded to the L broadband which is supposed to be up to 10mb but i'm getting about 1mb on broadband speed tests. I used to be on the 2mb package so could they have...