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Bulldog Broadband / Wireless
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OK, so after having NTL broadband since I can remember and surprisingly never having a problem with it, my Dad decides to throw a wobbler on the phone to them (something to do with the shitty tv service) and cancels the subscription.
We're now waiting for Bulldog to come and install a phoneline and sfuff... then we're planning on going wireless.
So really, I want to know if anyone had Bulldog and what they think of it? Or maybe you had it and it's a pile of dog dirt?
Also, anybody know what kind of spec I should be looking at when it comes to wireless routers/pci/usb cards etc?
Thanks in advance... I'm rubbish at this stuff!
We're now waiting for Bulldog to come and install a phoneline and sfuff... then we're planning on going wireless.
So really, I want to know if anyone had Bulldog and what they think of it? Or maybe you had it and it's a pile of dog dirt?
Also, anybody know what kind of spec I should be looking at when it comes to wireless routers/pci/usb cards etc?
Thanks in advance... I'm rubbish at this stuff!
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How many PC's do you have in the house?
Will they all be on wireless or only a couple?
Personally i would buy a wireless router that also has a 4 port switch in it. so if you wireless does play silly buggers you can always plug in a network cable to get yourself up and running.
If you have any questions send me a PM (do this stuff all the time at work)
I've been with them for over a year now. I had my first problem with them when I moved house. Their contracts are issued per address, so if you move house before your contract is up you need to pay a cancellation fee of £50, even if you plan to continue their service at your new address, as you've breached your contract. Which is fine...I guess, but they then tried to continue to charge me for that account even tho it had been cancelled. I'm just glad I cancelled the direct debit at the bank! It took 6months for them to eventually stop trying to charge me and at least 24hours of time on the phone to them.
I remember once phoning up to enquire about this situation and they claimed that I had never EVER had an account with them. If so, why on earth were they trying to charge me? All I got in responce was "Sorry, Ma'dam but you never had an account with us" <hangs up>
I've been looking at Netgear, so it's good to know I'm going in the right direction! We've only got one PC, but it lives in my bedroom and the connection has to be downstairs. Saying that, my brother might be getting a PC in the near future so it just seems the best option.
Thanks for your help - I'll drop you a pm if I get stuck again!!
Woah, you have had some problems. Hopefully that's a one-off! I mean, no offence to you having to go through all that, seems a right hassle! But I'm not moving house so *hopefully* it should be pretty trouble-free.
And you're still with them though, right? So the internet itself must be alright?
But it suits us as its a monlthy contract so we dont have to be tied to the company for 12 months
4meg is just about enough although poushing it as me and my housemates d/l a LOT! if you dont d/l much it wont really affect you.
I am getting quite annoyed at how often the net seems to cut out though!
As the MAC address is a coded to the network card itself, no one can spoof the address. Or at least i've not heard of a way they can do this.
I dont bother with wep and wap encoding on my one, i just use the mac addressing, and not had any problem yet
i was just gonna add that, sooooo many people don't its untrue
Yep. The people next door to us haven't
Isn't Bulldog owned by NTL? :chin:
How do I 'protect' my wireless network?