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Re: XP pro or home ?

Apparently it started out as webmail, then POP3 was added.

From Feb, the POP3 bit will only work if you pay for the enhanced version.

Since I have other POP3 email accounts, talk21 can stay as webmail.

You can't open a new talk21 account anyway.

It's been replaced by btopenworld.

Which is the same thing with a different name.

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My point exactly, although I always thought it was webmail. Do you mean webmail only? I didn't realise you could pop it.

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talk21 is about to go to webmail unless you pay £1-50/month to get POP3.

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Yes, you have to pay extra for a standard email account - or use one of those spam infested services, like talk21. I couldn't find a service that allowed you to use an proper email client that you didn't have to pay for via their customer website.

By in=house services, I mean webspace, email, fixed or dynamic IP allocation, spam/virus filtering, etc., etc., BT aren't very good when it comes to these value added services imho.

Most others provide these at no extra charge and/or without added spam!

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Sorry Rob. Am I benig thick. WWhat do yu mean by in house services. Do you have to pay more to have email? Surely not

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Point taken, and I have witnessed some ISPs losing connectivity to the Internet from time to time.

But my experience is there is little to chose between them on the whole. Except for price and in-house services offered.

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> ADSL is ADSL, so the quality of the connection is the same as any other, really

From the exchange to ISP maybe but if the ISP has cr@p connectivity it will be slower than one who has invested in decent kit and connections.

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No "in-house" email for BT Broadband anymore - you have to pay for it as a separate item, or use something like hotmail. I was amazed when I discovered that after visiting a clients site, who claimed he couldn't get his email sorted! Now I know why.

They supply the modem, but charge quite a lot more than most other suppliers, and when you consider a modem can be bought for roughly £30 now it's a bit of a swizz.

ADSL is ADSL, so the quality of the connection is the same as any other, really. It is the provision of value added services where BT fall down, badly.

3/10 for effort, in my view.

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Plusnet are OK been using them for 2 years,


had a little hiccup a month ago with IMAP (I now use another ISP for mail) , once I got through 1st line 'support' which took a couple of weeks and threats of a compensation claim I was sorted pretty quickly.

Nice reliable service on the whole, support used to be very good, since my last problem though I'm not so sure.

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I use BT and had a nightmare getting going. The customer service had me pulling my hair out. Since that it has been ok but I am still considering switching and the one I would switch to is pipex - heard nothing but good reports about them.
Cheers
Earl

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good for you. to be sure reject unspecified MAC's on router - bear in mind that if you using WiFi access point connected to router then anyone who hi-jacks it will have legit access - so use security option on it.

its well pleasing to use wireless on laptop - had great time reading book on bed while still being online to chat to people - best of both worlds!

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got it. the tcpip settings on the network card were still configured to a static ip address although my modem/router gives dhcp. but i also had to tweak some firewall settings in line with what you mentioned atw, so ta. the boxes upstairs are wired, only the laptop is currently wireless but that will change.
must remember to set up mac restrictions though...i remember mark mentioning this about a year ago and i wondered what on earth he was talking about! how could you find out if somebody was hijacking your internet access?

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make sure you dont have some firewall that denies access - zonealarm might not consider internal network as Trusted by default and will just reject connections so its impossible to set shares etc

my setup here is router connectd to cable modem + wifi access point, my 2 mates use WiFi to access I use cable on my desktop and Wifi on laptop. Works like a charm.

XP pro or home ?

pro on all machines

XP pro or home ?

I have no problems using xp pro on the laptop, however I have heard that there can be probs with XP home - What are you running ?