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Did anyone else see Watchdog the other day??? If you didn't and you use BT Internet Anytime (like me) this may interest you.
All the high usage users (me included, of course) were recently given a new number to dial up, ending in 004 instead of 001. I changed to this number and discovered it was absolute crap. I mean really bad. Most of the time I can't even connect, and when I do it drops regularly and is very slow. I sent them a complaint and and carried on, putting up with it. It isn't on, I pay £15 a month to be able to use the internet when I want, and they are giving me what they promised. So I watched Watchdog the other day and apparently this is all a big BT scam. BT are giving all the high usage users this new number to put them off and make them think "This is crap, I'm getting Broadband." and then they make a fortune. Well, I want Broadband, but I ain't gettin off BT! Stuff them
Ah well, just my rant for the day.
All the high usage users (me included, of course) were recently given a new number to dial up, ending in 004 instead of 001. I changed to this number and discovered it was absolute crap. I mean really bad. Most of the time I can't even connect, and when I do it drops regularly and is very slow. I sent them a complaint and and carried on, putting up with it. It isn't on, I pay £15 a month to be able to use the internet when I want, and they are giving me what they promised. So I watched Watchdog the other day and apparently this is all a big BT scam. BT are giving all the high usage users this new number to put them off and make them think "This is crap, I'm getting Broadband." and then they make a fortune. Well, I want Broadband, but I ain't gettin off BT! Stuff them
Ah well, just my rant for the day.
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So what do I go for? A router, hub or switch? You know the differences?
I want to muck around with networking a few Win 2000 PC's - internet connection/print/file sharing etc and the money isn't too much of an issue.
I haven't got a cable modem or anything. Just a normal Telewest line. I've heard people saying you need DSL or ADSL lines. Is that all correct?
I want to muck around with networking a few Win 2000 PC's - internet connection/print/file sharing etc and the money isn't too much of an issue.
I haven't got a cable modem or anything. Just a normal Telewest line. I've heard people saying you need DSL or ADSL lines. Is that all correct?
Yeah, cheers Andi, one retail site I hadn't checked...I'm specifically looking for second-hand things people may have after upgrading networks etc..long shot, but anything I can to get this up.
Phil, try www.microdirect.co.uk
don't know if they do mail order but I'v been to the shop and all is kosher. These guys are very cheap, only figure i have floating round my head is £3 for 10m of cross over cable.
don't know if they do mail order but I'v been to the shop and all is kosher. These guys are very cheap, only figure i have floating round my head is £3 for 10m of cross over cable.
Oh yeah, while I'm thinking about networking, does anyone know of anywhere with a 16/24 port rj45 hub going for a reasonable price (second hand is fine)? Preferably with an Expansion (switching) port...I'm setting up a LAN Party locally, just a small one to try and judge interest, but I'd like the option to expand it if it turns out to be a success.
Not easy for a 14 year old to get the money/trust, but I want to give it a go...any other parts people might know of for sale somewhere that they think would be useful, please tell me about - lengths of rj45, switches (not nescessary for 16 people, I know..), or small boxen I could run for dedicated servers.
Not easy for a 14 year old to get the money/trust, but I want to give it a go...any other parts people might know of for sale somewhere that they think would be useful, please tell me about - lengths of rj45, switches (not nescessary for 16 people, I know..), or small boxen I could run for dedicated servers.
Don't know what to suggest as far as RPMs go..my mate set the actual firewall up once I was past the install/basic configuration (stupidly difficult, ended up specifying cluster sizes..), I don't know much about linux outside of debian. apt-get is sweet, heh.
I know it is my area, even the people locally with Terayons have quite a large amount of downtime, just don't have the same random login refusals and ethernet connection difficulties...although I blame Windows for the latter of those, debian dhcp/pppoe was fine.
I know it is my area, even the people locally with Terayons have quite a large amount of downtime, just don't have the same random login refusals and ethernet connection difficulties...although I blame Windows for the latter of those, debian dhcp/pppoe was fine.
Reaper[oV] wrote:
> No problem, internet/networking is an area of particular interest for me. We (my
> dad pays, heh) are with NTL, £25/month on top of the basic £8 for
> cable TV (required), but their service is very poor.
Must be your area/modem, dude... I'm with NTL too, and have only had two instances of downtime. No problems at all with logins or the modem - a Terayon.
> No problem, internet/networking is an area of particular interest for me. We (my
> dad pays, heh) are with NTL, £25/month on top of the basic £8 for
> cable TV (required), but their service is very poor.
Must be your area/modem, dude... I'm with NTL too, and have only had two instances of downtime. No problems at all with logins or the modem - a Terayon.
I've gotta setup my linux firewall this weekend. I am not sure what to use though. Either Redhat 6.2 or FreeBSD 4.3. Also I need some type of filrewall rpm. Any suggestions?
Heh..I -never- switch computers off, as a rule. Dunno why, just don't do it. I always have a box set up as a firewall, OpenBSD, nice and secure.
Security could be an issue if you leave you machine on. Just either always turn it off when your not using it or use a firewall type package.
No problem, internet/networking is an area of particular interest for me. We (my dad pays, heh) are with NTL, £25/month on top of the basic £8 for cable TV (required), but their service is very poor.
There's a lot of downtime which they refuse to take responsibility for, random connection problems, lgoin refusals and modem hardware errors (they know about the problems with our modem - Motorola SB4100, don't accept one - but they refuse to replace it for a new Terayon).
I haven't heard great things about BT's service either really..broadband in this country is still in early stages, yet to be widely adopted, but people (gamers especially) are demanding more from their connections, and BT/NTL will have to get their act together soon..
I'm not quite sure what the situation with ADSL is at the moment, but BT aren't the only company to offer it now...the best service/price that I've heard of is Timewarp, although Blueyonder looks ok too.
Availablity is still as issue, unfortunately. Not all areas of the country fall in to the broadband enabled zones, distance from BT exchanges being a major factor, but many people have been forced to change their telephone service to get broadband. If you can't get it in your area, the only other options are ISDN (expensive and not particularly fast), and satellite modems (great downstream, up to 8mbit, but requires a normal modem for upstream data, which limits it to 33.6k and makes gaming almost impossible).
There's a lot of downtime which they refuse to take responsibility for, random connection problems, lgoin refusals and modem hardware errors (they know about the problems with our modem - Motorola SB4100, don't accept one - but they refuse to replace it for a new Terayon).
I haven't heard great things about BT's service either really..broadband in this country is still in early stages, yet to be widely adopted, but people (gamers especially) are demanding more from their connections, and BT/NTL will have to get their act together soon..
I'm not quite sure what the situation with ADSL is at the moment, but BT aren't the only company to offer it now...the best service/price that I've heard of is Timewarp, although Blueyonder looks ok too.
Availablity is still as issue, unfortunately. Not all areas of the country fall in to the broadband enabled zones, distance from BT exchanges being a major factor, but many people have been forced to change their telephone service to get broadband. If you can't get it in your area, the only other options are ISDN (expensive and not particularly fast), and satellite modems (great downstream, up to 8mbit, but requires a normal modem for upstream data, which limits it to 33.6k and makes gaming almost impossible).
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