K,

Agreed. Crappy site. Can't find any testers.

Google finds a Uniross one for 2.88 at Amazon. I cannot believe that it does what that ZTS for around 29 USD is doing.

My understanding is that you have to read the battery 'under load' to get a meaningful guide to whether the battery is wearing out. The photographer that set me down this road says that he throws out all the batteries that read less than 60% when recharged.

I'll go on looking.

But thanks for the interest.

TP

TP

I need to know if adding new filters to my telephone line will help improve my broadband speed as Pipex tell me it will???

At the moment I am getting 1.8mbps on a good day, however BT tell me the line can take 4-6mbps, the last few days I have rang Pipex to ask them to help with speed and all they say is try new filters, if I do which ones do I get???

Richgit69

I don't know if they differ in quality, but I suspect that most are the same. Why not buy a new one for a fiver and test it?

Test it with no other phones or filters plugged in, and blug your router into the BT master socket. Or better still, if you have a modern master socket, remove the front plate which dissconnects all of your extensio wireing and plug the filter in direct.

Optimist, thanks ;-)

That's what they suggested plug it into a master socket, but I cant reach it behind large TV and very difficult for me in wheelchair ;-) I find away thou ;-)

Richgit69.

Mate of mine at BT says adding new filters will not help.

I thought that it was the broadband that was noisy and so the filters were to help phones plugged into the same socket by filtering out the unwanted noise.

ie. Filters help phones but do not help broadband.

K
You got a mate........

Several ;O)

Keaydian, Thanks ;-)

Incidentally I've just been onto the Pipex website - and I find I'm now with Tiscali :-(

Off to find an alternative b/band supplier.

Seymour, exactly what I an thinking ;-)

Keep well away from them ;-)

How big is 1GB? Then and now!!!!

Thinking of changing ISP.

Just need quick, reliable, unlimited (LOL) connection via router. Happy to pay circa 25 for reliability.

Will Plusnet be the best?
Once I have a MAC will it all be straightforward?

Check out demon.net . 23 for a dedicated IP address I've always found them reliable and they don't try to push adverts at you. They also have an unlimited business package that starts at around double that price.

Plusnet is certainly not unlimited. They went through a bad patch but are apparently now much better. They do have lowish bandwidth limits though and they will slow you down before you start to hit them with the aim of stopping you dead when you do.

If you mean truly unlimited one of the Entanet resellers is about your only option at realistic prices.

zscrooge,

You might like to look back over the last two days in the Broadband thread running alongside this.

On the other hand you might not........as I am now rather embarrassed with the choices!

TP

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Sadly I am not a premium member to access that board.


Opti -i used to be on Demon a long time ago -will take another look. Cheers Kayak, I don't really need true unlimited which i know you don't get anyway, just the 40gb that usually comes in that price range.
Just wondered which might be best - i suppose they all vary month to month in surveys according to isp reviews sites. Could do with one that won't get taken over and then change the way it operates although sector consolidation looks likely to continue.

Also, is a static ip address more open to attack than one which is dynamically assigned?

Also, I notice that Demon suggest Speedtouch routers but I already have one (netgear). Would i need to change?

PC running very slow and I notice I am getting a lot of "receive" errors on my broadband line. Can anyone point me at anything that might help me find out what is going on?

If you are Tiscali, join the club, but looks to be a Tiscali/BT problem, not home PC fault. Tiscali trying to sort it, but taking forever!

Greystone

For a start...

1. What housekeeping have you done?
2. Wireless or what? Which Router or Modem if not wireless?
3. Which virus checkers done?
4. Defragged?
5. Used CCleaner yet?
6. Waggled and checked your connections (all of them)?
7. Done any downloads recently - or upgrades?
8. XP or Vista?
9. Have you disconnected the PC and connected a corded phone to see if you have noise on the phone line?