Have PM'd you about the company I use, who incidently are a WHICH magazine award winner and have a UK call centre which are always extremely helpful.
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Have PM'd you about the company I use, who incidently are a WHICH magazine award winner and have a UK call centre which are always extremely helpful.
I'm with claranet and i dont think i've lost my connection once in the past 5 years. i'm on line 24 hours a day and my teenage daughter shares the connection for her laptop
www.clara.net
Virgin media here. All very stable and efficient and excellent help if needed.
Hi Shelley - sorry, been snowed under then had to go through to Bangkok for two days.
Which company supplied / supplies your line? BT or Plus.net? Whichever it is, contact their engineers department, explain the problem, and ask them to increase the "gain" on the line - sometimes that can blast through the interference and get you a clear enough signal to improve your net speed.
Just wondering - is there any such thing over in the UK currently as "pay as you go" internet access - not the type that uses premium rate lines, but ones where you buy a bandwidth card (similar to pay as you go phones) - I'm going to need some sort of short term access over a standard phone line until I get broadband sorted out once I find a place to live.
I just ditched virgin and signed up with sky.
I hope it works out cos Virgin are rubbish..BTW I found out that sky have taken over Virgin tv and leased it back to them - Then they started closing down the channels!
Poor little Richard Branson... he's in a pickle! PMSL :) :) :)
Look at Mobile Broadband i.e using the mobile phone network. BUT, depending on where you are depends on the type of signal you'll get. i have a Vodaphone USB dongle and it's great in bult up areas - almost true broadband speeds. But out in the sticks, the signal is no better than dialup - OK for emails, but not much else.
That's a useful thought Annie, thanks - do you need a "contract" mobile account for that, or does it work with pay as you go as well?
Mine is Pay-as-you-go - I paid £29 for the dongle and that included £15 airtime. As long as I log on at least once every 6 months, I don't lose any remaining credit. And I can top it up to keep it going. Not all mobile networks work like this.
It can connect via 3G, GPRS, or normal phone speed for access -depending upon what signal it can pick up. Originally bought for when out caravanning, it was a godsend after we moved house and waiting for BT & Tiscali to get their act together.