Shangri-La.

Now what have we told you about sucking to much Mountain Air,


:D

Yup 4000+ meters goes to one's head ;)

Called BT yesterday to ask when i would be put on the 2mb upgrade.

and was told I already am..???

Thanks for telling me. BT

You would have thought i would have noticed I was on it for over a week.

Just did a test though. 35mb jpeg download in about 2minutes..something

I really wish the downloads windows would tell you how long it took to download, like they did in the old days. :(

Works on 10.4 not on 10.3.9
 

Folks

I've searched this thread but don't see mention of this problem:

My BTinternet (yes I know it's rubbish) ethernet connection - through their Voyager 205 router - works only intermittently on my iMac running OSX 10.3.9; but when it's dropped out there, if I simply unhitch the ethernet cable and stick it into the side of my iBook running 10.4, it works fine.

But I really would like to make it work full-time on the iMac....

Any thoughts?
Herman

Try upgrading the firmware of the voyager, this is the usual fix for dropouts.

Same here, they got in touch ages ago making a big fuss and saying they'd send me a letter when it's my turn to be upgraded. Only noticed when my brother mentioned he'd downloaded a 60MB update in a few mins. Checked my router settings, and sure enough - there it was in black and white.

Doesn't make much difference browsing, just downloading.

Can't complain though, I wasn't expecting to get upgraded to 2Mb/s as I'm only on a trial of the full package, actually signed up to BT Yahoo! Anytime Plus, which is only meant to be 150Kb/s!

Rob.

I was advised that to speed up the upgrade (to 2 Mb/s) process I should reorder my broadband package. Go to the BT site and re-order what you already have, and in a couple of weeks it will be upgraded to 2 Mb/s. It worked for me - no costs or charges.

Btw, is anybody out there actually using a Netgear 834 with BT broadband **BASIC**?? I still don't know why the Basic package isn't supposed to work with anything other that the Voyager 105.

-spro*gger

with respect, that is a pile of S**T, any brodband is good enough for the Netgear.

When I was ready to order broadband I rang BT and asked about their basic package, and how it was limited to one user and was advertised as not being Mac compatible (although their more expensive packages were).

They basically said it would only work with their provided modem (USB only unlike their more recent models) and their PC-only software, and that it was OK to use my own router with their other packages (as well as my Mac although a lot of the bundled freebies are PC only).

I too would be interested to know if their basic package does in fact work with a Netgear DG834, as my current special offer will be ending soon, and now that their basic package includes email addresses it would be ideal.

Rob.

Well as long as this is real adsl wer'e talking about, and not some techno-frig to create a high speed dial up, then there is no technical reason for the netgear not to work.

Good news - I can confirm that the Netgear DG834G router works with BT Broadband Basic (2 Mb/s) :)

Am using the DG834 and BTBroadband, have been for the past year. Never encountered a problem with 834. As far as changing Broadband provider :eek: got to say why go to another company that insists you have to use their phone service too :rolleyes: and to be frank take the piss stating you have to make X number of calls etc. Stick with BT Ok the know jack about Macs ;) but hey we all have a cross to bear :p

D link 300T
 

MAC: Dual 1GHz DDR 10.4.2
Hi there, I am one of the hundreds of thousands of saps that foolishly went with BT for their ADSL. Couple of questions:

1. I keep getting disconnected whenever I use Acqisition, Limewire or any other client that uses the P@P Gnutella network. I can connect and surf the net (I know its a different protocol), but even this is really flaky with constent drop outs. I can connect via FTP and NTTP, but the P2P sucks. I even get disconnented using Bit torrent. The only P2P that works is the old HOTline protocol.

The Internet connect Log doesn't give any clues..

2. I am looking 2 upgrade the shite Speedtouch 330 USB modem that BT kindly gave me with a Dlink 300T. I've read some good reports about this modem.

Any thoughts on points 1 and 2 would be much appreciated.

Yoda

Use the Force, read the thread that you posted in and tell us what it all means :-)

Sounds like you already know the solution to your problems, here's a hint:

"upgrade the shite Speedtouch 330 USB modem"

Rob.