no one even going to tell me who they use, what they pay etc

It makes no difference if it's wireless or not, the wireless bit comes after the bit your service provider is responsible for. The only difference is that you have a wireless router or a normal router with a wire coming out of it, they both plug into the same hole in the wall.

This whole "wireless broadband" thing is marketing bollocks to make people think it's somehow special, it isn't. They just give you a wireless router instead of a normal one, the broadband is exactly the same, you could buy a wireless router and plug it in to a normal broadband connection.

Wireless routers are s**** anyway, unless you have more than one computer and they're spread around the house or you have a laptop and wander around with it, then they're less than pointless. Most people have their computer in the same place all the time, if you're one of them get a wire and plug it in, you'll get a faster connection speed and you won't get disconnected if a few stray atoms get in between the computer and the router.

Wireless is s***, wires are the way forward.

I use NTL and have not had many problems with it, it actually has a good point or two which will not be wrote about on an open forum.

While we're on about this, does anybody use mobile internet access, something that you can connect to anywhere?  If so, is it any good and how much is it?

I've seen one advert for such a service but it was something like £45 a month, I'm not paying that.

We've never had any problems in our house with NTL if I'm being honest.

And a lot of me mate's can't recommend Telewest high enough as well.

Cheers for all the ntl/telewest reccomendations, unfortunatley I am on BT out in the sticks with no cable, I cant even get Sky out here apparently which confuses the hell out of me!
I am curreently paying £20 a month and I have my own wireless router so I am basically looking for a fast reliable ISP at the cheapest price I can get.

I am on freeserve, now orange, and have been since it was freeserve.

Its quite good actually, connections etc are fine, and the speed of 2mb is fast enough. I have been getting spam mail though for the last 6 months or so, throught my address being leaked somewhere despite being careful, and they won't let me make a new email address. So I'm not really happy at not being able to change my registration address without going through all the hassle of re-registering etc.

If they would let me do this, I would probably stay, but I've told them if they don't find a way to do it, then I will move on, and I probably will when I have found another provider that suits me, but at the moment am not sure who to use.

So to sum up, its quite good, but look after your address, as you can't change the root once you have signed up and anything at all that is typed before the @sounesssucks.fsnet.co.uk [for instance] gets through to you and you can't stop it or change it.

easier said than done Dave, I quite like Outlook, and lots of contacts etc have my main address now. A yahoo one is OK but its a different setup, and googlemail is terrible.

I know what you are saying because I've considered and looked at this, but not sure what to do yet. It would save a lot of hassle, especially when I'm getting good connections etc.


 

Actually it doesn't appear you can with Yahoo, but you defo should be able to with Hotmail.

You can definitely do it with gmail.

click on "settings" (top right of your inbox screen)

click on "forwarding and pop"

choose your preferred option (ie all mail or just mail received from now on.)

choose what you want it to do with the messages once you've downloaded them - you may as well have it keep them with however many gig of space it is that they give you.

click on "configuration instructions" and it talks you through the rest - easy.

done.

if you need an invite, give me a shout.

No bother mate, once you've done that though, you need never go to the website again.

just spent a few minutes doing this....I will need to disable my old one, as there is a clash of passwords or something, is it somethign to do with still using it for dial up, it is still looking for the old address even though I have disabled it and won't "read" the google address.

Other than that, this seems to be just the job, and if the new email address gets out and about you can easily change it again, I'll have to look at it tomorrow now though.

mailwasher ? Aye. I use that, and bounce them, but I just want to stop getting all this rubbish anyway.