Kayak - Thanks for the warning. The Microsoft advice looked well beyond my knowledge and ability.

Kayak - yes I've been waiting.. and waiting..and waiting - onetel speak with forked tongue - all mouth and no trousers so far.

Richgit69
Im on XP now after clicking Appearance click advance, to the right of item there is the colour change tab change that it might work if all fails you will have to change your desk top pic again.

Kernow, still the same symptoms that I had. Sounds like a call to the ISP tech support is required. I also had another problem with the connection - i.e. couldn't get one and they test the line whilst you're on the phone and you've got all your gear connected, to work out if there is a problem at the exchange. In my case they said BT had realised there was a problem and had changed something but it still wasn't right - was rectified in 24 hours.

Thanks SC. I did call onetel yesterday - they said it was the router which they (quite fairly) wouldn't troubleshoot. I got the modem set up and everything was fine so nothing to complain about and last night/today wireless works fine - just this blinking staus light so I'm taking the easy option of doing nothing more for now.

Update - just finished upgrading my firmware, whatever that is. Usual (for me anyway) hitches although DSL telephone support was not as painful as many of these option ridden lines can be. Turns out the blinking staus light is normal operation!

I am looking to get a ASDL wireless USB modem Network router card etc, looking at the Netgear range, which one should I buy?

Richgit, DG834GT is the best I think at the moment. I have it. It is a modem/router though which is much better than a USB modem. You plug it into a network port. You may already have a network port and otherwise a network card is only a few pounds.

Kayak, thanks ;-)

so it will replace me Alcatel ASDL and network my pc in another room ;-)

checked dixons website and they have it for 129 other sites have it for 60 - 129, anyone now why what am I missing???

yes it will... you will need a wireless card for the other PC obviously. The WG511T is a PC card thingy if it's a laptop.

Help required please.

I am setting up a email address using outlook express as i usually use yahoo i have forgotten how to set it up :-)

I have come to the section incoming mail POP3 and Outgoing mail.

I have been sent 2 set of info from the website that i have setup.
pop3 server....i take that is the info that goes in the 1st box
smtp server....i take that is the ino that goes in the 2nd box

Also i have to turn on My outgoing server requires authentication in order to send from the account !!!

This is all irish to me,can some one help please :-)

Mega...

Forgot to say using xp home and outlook 2000

Mega - assuming you can access this, here's a Wanadoo Help Page on the subject:

http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/help/email/freeserveemailsettings/outlooksettings.htm

Will be different for you, of course, but might give you a few clues.

SB,thanks for the link,at the moment i am with ntl 10mb broadband and would normally have a email like ******@ntlworld.com but am hoping to use my website email address from my home pc is this possible ????????????

Mega...

Sorry Mega - don't know.

Mega,

Try pop.ntlworld.com in the box for your incoming (pop3) server and smtp.ntlworld.com in the box for your outgoing (smtp) server.

Mega you need to look at the info from whoever hosts your website as to how you can use your website email address.

Thanks folks,with all your help we have sorted it,a very happy camper here :-))))

Mega...

Can anyone recommend an online backup service, which I can use to backup about 2GB of data?

For instance, I found http://www.perfectbackup.co.uk and who would charge me about 7.50 pm for this amount of storage.

Oh joy! I've upgraded my modem today and the internet connection hasn't dropped once. Now on a router ....(apparently!)

Don't know Doc but bear in mind that the backup to the backup service will count against your monthly bandwidth allowance given by your ISP.