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themarques
Joined: Jan 26, 2003
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From: London, Tokyo,
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On 2006-08-24 14:24:21, ÈL ® ö B ì Ñ wrote:
2 BT Engirneers round my house told me before I fit this new 1 do I want to keep this old one as it's alot better as it uses quality copper wirering or something....So don't go replacing old one thinging "new is better". It's possibly not.
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The router is the most important thing, my advise is the Belkin 7633
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Naaa big mistake, it's a cheap mans netgear.
Save up ya pennys a bit longer and get something of decent quality, a Netgear router, trust me you won't regret it.
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Trust me my friend money is surely not a thing for me so yeah saying the cheapest is not always the best is well silly to say the least. I have a brand new DG834GT sitting boxed and a Linksys WRT54G3G and neither have been able to produce a sync as high as the Belkin 20Mbps with a SNR of 6.5db rock solid, I can show you the stats if you like.
Oh and I have also tested them at my two different house both new and old and Belkin still came out on top. If you want a Netgear that is plagued with bugs but asthetically looks nice feel free.
Oh and on to the the face plate factor well its simple, the face plate has nothing to do with the copper wiring, as suggested its a face plate, if it is wired wrong or of a poor quality you will have serious noise on your line. BT has face plates which are more suitabe for ADSL1 and when we talking about ADSL2+ they are not up to scratch.
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SE Rules
Joined: Oct 07, 2004
Posts: 398
From: London
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Well, I took the plunge, I've gone with Telewest, 10Mb etc I think its fairly decent, couldn't be living with BT's download caps... Apparently I live in a good service area, so the speed should be fairly close, if not, 10Mb.
Now I've gotta find a wireless router for my house; I got 3 PC's to connect not including my own. File and print sharing isn't really going to help because my housemates lets say, are a little lacking in technoogy understanding...  So, just a nice stable connection with a good reception will be perfect.
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haynesycop
Joined: Mar 10, 2004
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I'm hoping somebody can help me out, i've been with fast4 for around 7 months and i was paying £15 for unlimited downloads and there was no monthly contract, this was for 8mb.
I was quite happy with that but now they've changed everything over and are charging £16.95 for 15gb downloads which is just not enough for me, there seem to be some good deals out there but i don't want to be tied down to a contract.
Can anyone recommend anywhere as i want to get my mac code asap?
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Cycovision
Joined: Nov 30, 2003
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From: England
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Plusnet recently won an award for "Best UK broadband provider" or similar but they're not particularly cheap: 20Gb per month for £19.19 or 40Gb for £29.99.
Probably not what you're looking for but I thought I'd mention them anyway since they are supposed to be pretty good. Can you get "no contract" broadband that's any good these days?
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haynesycop
Joined: Mar 10, 2004
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I'm struggling to find anything for 1 month but there are 3 month contracts i'm just really annoyed as i've done a speed test and i got 60kbps for download which is ridiculous, i pay for 8mb and i expect to get near that. I would go for 12 months if the service is good enough and the price is ok, looking to pay around £20 per month for 8mb or more it has to be unlimited though. Thanks for the input.
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Nanu
Joined: Feb 18, 2006
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From: Warrington, UK
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I'm with Plusnet and have been for a few years now! and they do a PAYG as I used to be on it!
Plusnet don't lie telling you their broadband is unlimited and they never have but what they allow you to do is download for free between midnight and 8am, so far this month I have downloaded 42GB and I am still within my 20GB limit!
Even if I overstep it they will email me and charge me a £/GB!
BT bought Plusnet out last year but don't let that put you off they run as an independent company and the service is still second to none!
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They still do the 1 month contract for £19.99 as I am still on it
And I get 4MB out of the possible 8MB but doesn't this change depending on where you live?
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haynesycop
Joined: Mar 10, 2004
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This is my exchange if it helps i get confused looking at this but i'm pretty sure the exchange is capable of good speeds.
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange.php?ecode=LVMOU
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haynesycop
Joined: Mar 10, 2004
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Think i may go with be unlimited, up to 24mb which is unlimited, got my mac code straight away and my account will be closed 09/04/08 at 23.30 so got until then to do it.
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Posted: 2006-08-24 16:49
K750 > Nokia N80 > 
