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Posted: 16 November 2006 at 3:41pm | IP Logged  
i'd seen it advertised in a couple of mags, thought i check it out, looks good to me. I want to get the 25 a month 60 gig package. What do you think??

http://www.names.co.uk/home_broadband.html

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bugger that

try nildram - www.nildram.net

50gb peak usage, unlimited from midnight to 8am.

So far their connections have been EXCELLENT. I can max my bw even in the evenings!



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I would never go with any ISP that would try to put caps on my DL's.

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Posted: 16 November 2006 at 4:33pm | IP Logged  
thats fine - but then all you get is people raping the BW 24/7 hence crap pings in the evenings when u wanna play games. I am limited during peak hours, but my connection speed is still maxed out at 700k and my pings are great even at the busiest times of the day...

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Posted: 16 November 2006 at 8:03pm | IP Logged  
Right, that nidram look good as well. PLUS deamonboy knows his sh*t and if he says its good it wud be good

Right to go with that i'm also getting a router
what do you think,

Oh and as long as caps go, well 50 gb is more then enough for me, as the only things i download is lost, heroes and prison break, a few songs, and usual web browsing and gaming.

ROUTER

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Like you have a 60gb d/l limit, he obviously d/ls alot

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Mash-Tin_UK wrote:
Like you have a 60gb d/l limit, he obviously d/ls alot


I clicked on after a minute LOL
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good router, used that one at my grans for about 6 weeks or so with no problems, and now using the same one but without the modem built in, and altho my wireless is dodgy i dont think its the router so yeah i like.

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those routers are fine - v popular and easy to setup

make sure you set the wireless up with WPA encryption.



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Posted: 16 November 2006 at 11:55pm | IP Logged  
Thanks for the feedback and advices guys.

Yeah i've heard alot of problems with wireless, very easy to hack into, unless u knw what you doin. I'm gona do abit of looking around for the best ways to protect wireless.

So thanks for the advice DB its much aprreciated
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no probs

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No no no no no!
NEVER go with netgear routers, they are the worst router I hvae ever used, the wireless dropped every 20 seonds, and it lost connection with the modem atleast once aday.

Harv also had one of those and had lots of issues, infact I don't think I hvae ever heard of any one being happy with that netgear routers.

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my last one was fine...

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You must have been lucky I still have my flats old netgear because no one wanted it, they all would rather buy a new router then get this one for free.

A cheap £35 job from silicon is doing a better job back home then this thing ever did.

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 both of my netgears been better than previous routers.

worst was dlink i think, the belkin and linksys were reasonably good, but netgear no problems so far.



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After trying about 5 differant routers, 2 netgears (one of which was an office one, the other the crap home one), 2 cheap brands and a Dlink.

The Dlink is the one that has done so much better then the rest, no internet drops rock soild wireless, perfect port forwards as well as UPnP suport, I can even plug in a usb printer into it.

I would never buy another netgear router, luckly seeing this Dlink is so good I won't need to buy another one for quite some time.

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my old netgear used to hate me uploading over wireless, and it didnt work to well over a long distance >10mtrs
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thats quite lucky ross, as D-Link are the cheapest value branded routers about!

They used to have a terrible rep



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i used a dlink at uni for a year and my dad has one at home, both were fine when they worked but the biggest problem was them freezing up randomly and needing a hard reboot. and yes i tried lots of firmware.

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was it after theyd been up for a while? - esp if you had been using P2P?

Chances are its because their routing tables filled up and they didnt know what to do. ALot of cheaper routers have this issue, badly designed. Their tables fill, they dont dump any of the old data off and they run out of memory and crash.



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