Who is your ISP?

Re: Who is your ISP?

paula morgan — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:20:54 GMT

I am going to have a look and see if i can do it x

Re: Who is your ISP?

Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:01:33 GMT

Do you have your yahoo messenger switched on? its this that pops up and tells me I have mail.

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paula morgan — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:33:48 GMT

Hi STRVN, sorry, yes it does tell meon my home page but no pop up at bottom of the screen x

Re: Who is your ISP?

Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:34:32 GMT

Hi again, it pops up on the bottom right hand corner, much the same as when someone logs into msn...if you get what I mean.

Is there nowhere on your homepgae either that tells you you have mail? just when you said that you have to go into your mail to check.

I have a little mailshot on my homepage and if I have mail it illumintes with however many new messages I have.

Re: Who is your ISP?

paula morgan — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:20:25 GMT

[quote user="STRVN"]

I am with BT Scotlass, in what way do you mean re the mail?? mines pops up at the sode of the screen idf I am online. Also when I log in, it tells me straight away that I have mail. I also have th BT internet phone, so when a dog barks in my pocket I know I have email

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I have to go to my mail box to see if i have mail, it tells me when i log on but if i am online i need to go to home page and check, am probably not doin something right. aol said "you have mail" Where abouts on the screen does it tell you x

Re: Who is your ISP?

Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:39:32 GMT

Re: Who is your ISP?

paula morgan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:19:05 GMT

I am with bt but I preferred aol! A wee woman used to tell me I had mail with bt Idont know if I can get that, anybody know how to do it x

Re: Who is your ISP?

Shane — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:12:36 GMT

Thank goodness virgin is unlimted, I just checked now, I downloaded 132GB last month.

Re: Who is your ISP?

Saskia Quinn — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:52:11 GMT

think I might go for either - BT Broadband or U.TV Internet

Thanks to all for your replies, will let you know how it goes!

Re: Who is your ISP?

Shane — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:44:19 GMT

I'm also with virgin media. got the 20mbps line, which is absolutely fast. Downloaded a movie (legally of course) this weekend in 8 minutes flat!

Re: Who is your ISP?

Nick Shackleton — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:49:30 GMT

Just dont go for mobile broadband! I'm with Orange and its rather slow and sluggish at times! I'm tied into a 2yr contract, but I did get a free laptop. there are some good deals out there have you checked out a compare website?

Re: Who is your ISP?

albatross — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:43:08 GMT

I am with Orange - was Freeserve, then Wanadoo then bought out by Orange.

They've just announced a big price increase and I keep watching all the other ISP's with much cheaper rates so I plan to move.

Had a call from BT today : they offer a free homehub (apparently the new one that allows you to be 300ft away from it and it will still work, and also through walls!), free BT openworld so I can use the laptop anywhere for 250 mins a month (ok not a lot and when I start my new jo in Norfolk I hope to use the landlady's hub but it might prove occasionally useful), a shadow facility where they can monitor/convert my original email address - it's a special one for our chinchilla breeding/showing hobby and so many people know it/it's on our business cards, and would be a pain to change. Usual 5 email addresses, fixed contract for 12 months all at £12.99 a month, then review contract and can switch to another supplier.

Our village is so far from the exchange that we can only get 2MB (it's been tested by two suppliers and that figure is correct, so all the hype for supplying up to 8MB at various prices doesn't wash with me, as I can only get slow broadband whoever I was with).

My husband heard though of someone who had loads of problems with a homehub and it wouldn't work through walls (or at least walls with electrical conduits in) and our house is an ex-police station and riddled with cabling of all sorts.

Is this a good deal?
we're with Sky for TV but their cheap broadband offer isn't covered by our area so they want about £18 a month as they don't rent the broadband width yet to our village.

Re: Who is your ISP?

Saskia Quinn — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:02:27 GMT

oh I really dont know what to do now, so confused, will have to think long and hard about it

Re: Who is your ISP?

Caro Laithwaite VN — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:02:22 GMT

Paula's original Q we have virgin media and that is fine. Also totally unlimited and as l spen d so much time on it is needed.

Re: Who is your ISP?

Caro Laithwaite VN — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:59:33 GMT

it was never as big a heap as it is now, and as l am the one that has to deal with it l do know what l am talking about. But just so you do understand what l am talking about she used to be fine getting on it is only in the last couple of years that things have been appalling. To the last few months when it is almost impossible to get on. When this bloody wireless contract is done she is changing. she refuses to change but spends the time moaning about it and asking who else there is as a supplier.
As soon as l suggest anything she doesn't want to change then 2 mins later is complaining l will start the process of suggestions for better isp nearer the time. come hell or high water aohell has defo lost another customer.

It wont be virgin as she refuses to have a cable placed so will have to look at other options am not sure about bt have not heard great stuff about them and know 2 people who downloaded updates that put almighty infections in their computers one had bt buy him a new computer and he got a fair bit of compesation. But that was a few years back also bt do not do unlimited use virgin do. not sure about the others.

Another consideration is what sort of back up is there.

Re: Who is your ISP?

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:58:08 GMT

[quote user="SaskiaVN"]

O M G!!!!!!

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HAHAHA A O HELL!! hahah

Re: Who is your ISP?

Saskia Quinn — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:55:06 GMT

O M G!!!!!!

Re: Who is your ISP?

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:51:21 GMT

here you go... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=aohell

Re: Who is your ISP?

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:48:52 GMT

[quote user="SaskiaVN"]

Carolyn, I love your wording of AOL.....Aohell lololololol!!!

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Paula, search AOHELL on google. it's a common name for America On Line, because it's blooooooody evil. always has been and internet g33ks like myself and many others HATE it with a passion.

Re: Who is your ISP?

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:46:12 GMT

[quote user="Caro Laithwaite"]

My mum has aohell and it is that the trouble is that she was having problems with the hard wiring and so got a wireless setup which tied her into another 18mts. Should be up soon (well a few months) thing is she refuses to sodding change to anything and spends her time moaning she can not get online.

aohell was ok when she got it 5 or 6 years ago the problem is now and it is a heap of sh*t

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No it's always been a heap of shit they just had good marketing to make you think different! haha

<g33k>

Re: Who is your ISP?

Saskia Quinn — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:46:07 GMT

Carolyn, I love your wording of AOL.....Aohell lololololol!!!

Mine has only recently started to be a big massive pain in the ass and I have had it about 5 or 6 years. It is slowly starting to drive me crazy

Re: Who is your ISP?

Caro Laithwaite VN — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:43:56 GMT

aohell was ok when she got it 5 or 6 years ago the problem is now and it is a heap of sh*t

Re: Who is your ISP?

chris beasley — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:43:11 GMT

[quote user="Vicky C"]

I'm with Tiscali and find it ok most of the time...i think the probs i get are cos of our shoddy BT phone line!

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I'm with Tiscali and find it ok most of the time...i think the probs i get are cos of our shoddy BT phone line!

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Yep Im with Tiscali too - once you are connected they are fine - getting connected ie another matter !!

Re: Who is your ISP?

Vicky RVN — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:40:40 GMT

I'm with Tiscali and find it ok most of the time...i think the probs i get are cos of our shoddy BT phone line!

Re: Who is your ISP?

Saskia Quinn — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:40:05 GMT

Thanks Guys

Thats very frustrating about AOL Steph. We can get broadband here so I may opt for BT. I will shop around though. Good ideas keep them coming!!