TOK, yes you can cut, tape up, and run another socket. You only need a filter if there is something connected to the wire/socket. You will probably get much better speeds than 1632 by just removing the unfiltered phone. However this probably won't make a lot of difference to your 400/500. That sounds to me like it's down to the exchange or ISP performance.

Once you have done that, you could probably get even better connection speeds by making the socket that your computer is on the master socket, and connecting all of the house wiring to the splitter (i.e taking the ADSL signal out before the extensions). This removes any possibility of the house wiring interfering with the ADSL signal, and it often does. To see if this would make any difference, all you need to do is unscrew the two screws on the master socket and connect your computer to the test socket that is then exposed (as this then removes the house wiring from the equation). If you get a higher speed then that is the most you're ever going to get, although you might need to get someone in to rewire your sockets.

Thanks again Wise Owl. Now, where did I put the pliers....?

TOK, this has been mentioned before on here, but are all the sockets run in series? If they run in parallel that will slow you down, I had that problem and altered my wiring and hey presto much faster downloads.

Good morning Seymour - The two extensions now in use are both wired directly from the master socket. (Is that series?) The bedroom one I vandalised yesterday was also direct from the master socket, I think. I'm now going to run a new bedroom socket from the computer socket. Bad news, I hear you say. BTW, cutting off the offending Hissing Sid phone doesn't seem to have affected speeds one way ore the other. Thanks for your interest.

For the connection speed to increase you'll need to reboot the router or computer if you haven't already done so.

You're running in parallel if each socket is wired direct from the master socket. Bad news ...

I currently have 512 mb of 333mh ram - I want to add an additional 512 - is it

a) possible to replace the the existing with 400mh ram and

b) if a is possible, will I see much improvement or should I stick with an addional 512 of 333?

a: I think that will depend on your MB
b: No. Yes.

Cheers Brian.

Help,i want to install net meeting on my laptop,its running windows xp,how can i find it,i thought it was already installed on xp,if its not how do i find the download???? Have just installed the driver for the webcam,but cannot find net meeting.

Rick....

Do you actually need Netmeeting? Windows Messenger does a lot of the same stuff.

K,prehaps that is why i cannot find it,all i want to do is have a link up with 3 people in one location in the UK to a business in Turkey,is this the right way to go about it,webcam is installed on laptop,the customer has all the equipment installed and we hope for a link up wednesday next week.Any other suggestions are most welcome,i should have put it on your own thread,Ask Kayak :-)

Many thanks for your help.

Rick....

Try the Help system, then look in Index for netmeeting and click 'using Netmeeting', from there you can start it. I guess it must be somewhere else as well. It is installed by default in XP. It will be gone in Vista. Messenger if the preferred product for XP.

or read this

http://www.meetingbywire.com/XPNetMeeting.htm

Actually Haystack had answered the same a few posts back, but I now think you can just have 2 people using video in Messenger. This may or may not be useful: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/netmeeting/

Skinny. With regards to your Ram question. Did you see Optimist's post 5292? Excellent site.

Bolshi - thanks - run and book marked!

I bought the HP 2575 printer/copier/scanner for home. A nice bit of kit.

A cursory Google for cartridges indicates that some contain double the amount of ink and there are options to buy re-filled HP cartridges and cartridges simply described as 'compatible'.

What would the voice of experience around here recommend, please?

Rgds

TP

The best thing you can do with a printer is use it at least twice a week. It is doing this which keeps the print heads and jets clear and keeps things working well as it doesn't allow the ink to dry up in vital places. This bit of advice is the best bit of printer usage advice you will ever get.

Obviously, there are good inks and bad ones. To cut down on getting a bad one, it is obviously best to use branded products. They obviously cost more.

But there again.....

I have had cheap inks, which worked. I have had branded inks and my printer still blocked because of lack of use.

I wouldn't put my name to recommending one of the cheaper 'compatible' brands to you.

Also - I have read quite frequently how Epsom printers have a fairly bad general reputation so I wouldn't personally ever buy one of those. Just IMHO.

TP,without looking at that particualr machine, my Epson machine keeps throwing up a "this cartridge is not genuine" message when I try to print either with a refilled or compatible cartridge. Then goes on to print perfectly well, however it's a little annoying to keep getting that message. I did buy some black HP 56 double packs on ebuyer ebuyer website for some of our work machines, and they were virtually as cheap as compatibles.

Seymour. Did you manage to copy your vhs tapes to dvd via PC? I just thought I'd mention that I bought a Panasonic combi vhs/dvd (227). The results are brilliant!
I had many failures trying to do other things (including something called Dazzle) but all gave rubbish results when copying to dvd.
Even our wedding video (many years ago) came out spot on! Made me look young and handsome - oh well, all right, not the handsome bit!