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I ordered Pipex ADSL on Sunday, and it should be activated by Friday.

I was intending to purchase the Dabs 'value' PCI ADSL modem, which was only £50, but they have now sold out, and will not get any more for 1-2 weeks.

I was wondering if anyone knew where else I could get a decent ADSL modem from, for under £90?

QXL have a 'buy now' feature on an 'Efficient Networks' PCI modem (£50)
Efficient Networks have just been bought out by Siemens, but I dont know if this modem is any good :)

Please help, Dan

I ordered Pipex ADSL on Sunday, and it should be activated by Friday.

I was intending to purchase the Dabs 'value' PCI ADSL modem, which was only £50, but they have now sold out, and will not get any more for 1-2 weeks.

I was wondering if anyone knew where else I could get a decent ADSL modem from, for under £90?

QXL have a 'buy now' feature on an 'Efficient Networks' PCI modem (£50)
Efficient Networks have just been bought out by Siemens, but I dont know if this modem is any good :)

Please help, Dan

www.solwise.co.uk

They have allsorts, PCI, USB and Routers. That's where I bought my router and I'm very happy.

You gave me that link on MSN, but I forgot it, cheers.

I still want info on this efficient networks modem though..

How could I not look here? :)

Anyone know if the SR ADSL modems are any good?

This is to Darkness...if you get activated on Friday, you're the luckiest man alive! Try heading over to the Pipex forum on ADSLguide and you'll see why.
I ordered my connection way back at the beginning of March, I'm finally, nay, *hopefully* getting connected this coming Monday. The cause? Non other than BT ofcourse.
Trust me, when you get delayed a few months, dont blame Pipex. Oh and a piece of advice, when you are at the point where it's a week or two delayed, phone up Pipex and KEEP nagging them. If I hadn't phoned them last week and told them to get in touch with BT, there'd be no sign of a BT engineer this coming Monday and I dread to think much longer I'd then have to wait...

Oh, and I got the Alcatel modem direct from Pipex. Would've rather got a PCI jobby, but I'm not fussed now...just give me ADSL BT!!!

Hm, I must be very lucky then, as I ordered on the thursday before easter (meaning it didnt even get processed till the tuesday after) and was activated on the Friday..

You lucky, lucky man Andi :)

I hope I am too, BT was *very* quick getting my line installed, lets hope they do the same with activation.

Oh, and I've decided on the SpeedStream (Efficient Networks/Siemens) PCI modem. £60 with a filter and free shipping from Ebay

Thanks for everyones help, and I hope to God I dont have to put up with this 56k for much longer!

i got a modem with built in hub but can't remember where i got it now but doesn't matter,

i went with pipex and i got mine activated 2 days before they said it would :)

Modem with built-in hub? Do you mean a router?

Hm, I think he means a router, though i should point out that not all router's have built in hubs, mine doesnt..