Albert T Smith
02-09-2007, 19:54
I'm of the understanding that when anyone leaves a broad-band supplier or changes to another supplier that the possibility of being disconnected could be a problem.
To solve this problem: Can an alternative,' pay as you go', broad-band supplier, be signed up and ran on another computer but using the same phone line, whilst at the same time you are terminating the original suppliers contract?
Greybeard
02-09-2007, 20:36
It's usually your phone line that's tied to a BB supplier. During a change-over between BB suppliers you can always use 56k dial-up there are plenty providers - just Google for 'free dial up'. Costs are ~1p/minute on 0844/0845 numbers.
Do you have a 56k modem in your PC ?
Cenobite
02-09-2007, 20:46
If you get your mac code and give it to your new supplier you will be without your connection for about 20 mins to a couple of hours it depends how fast the engineer is :)
Albert T Smith
02-09-2007, 21:21
Thank you both and no doubt I'll be coming back to you.
Thank you.
No 2 question is:
On my previous computer whilst running it, it did not interfere with the radio in the bedroom. This one does. Can I buy something to fix on that will stop this please?
Greybeard
02-09-2007, 21:34
Never had that problem but there might be an answer here...
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=pc+interference+on+radio&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
Albert T Smith
03-09-2007, 20:10
Greybeard - Do you have a 56k modem in your PC ?
I've got one for a spare in case I want to go internet, ' Pay as you go '. (I'm signed up with Tesco)
I use a Speed touch Broad-Band connection which Freeserve, now Wanadoo supplied when I connected up.
Greybeard
03-09-2007, 22:39
Greybeard - Do you have a 56k modem in your PC ?
I've got one for a spare in case I want to go internet, ' Pay as you go '. (I'm signed up with Tesco)
I use a Speed touch Broad-Band connection which Freeserve, now Wanadoo supplied when I connected up.
I don't have an internal 56k modem in this PC but I have an external USB model in a drawer I can use in emergencies. As I'm with Metronet I can use their dial-up 0845 number if I have trouble with the BB connection. I imagine Wannado will have a dial-up number you can use with your BB log-in details- most ISPs do.
For BB I use an internal PCI DSL modem - just one wire to the phone socket and no extra boxes cluttering up the desks/shelves.