Who does my colleagues broadband?

A colleague has joined from another company who organised his broadband
connection. My colleague does not know who the broadband ISP is and his
old company have not yet come back with an answer.

Is there a website or someone I can contact to find out which ISP is
supplying broadband?

TIA!

Guy
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Guy Dawson I.T. Manager Crossflight Ltd
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:: A colleague has joined from another company who organised his
:: broadband connection. My colleague does not know who the broadband
:: ISP is and his old company have not yet come back with an answer.
::
:: Is there a website or someone I can contact to find out which ISP is
:: supplying broadband?
::
:: TIA!
::
:: Guy
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:: Guy Dawson I.T. Manager Crossflight
:: Ltd (E-Mail Removed)

Do a search on his IP address
( obtainable from the command prompt for a single Box or from his router if
he uses one )
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Yddap

A simple IP check from his computer. Providing its not a leased line
or anything, and they actually connect him to the internet direct, and
not through their network, tell him to go here:

http://whatsmyip.org/

Make note of the IP it returns and then go to:

http://www.db.ripe.net/whois

and enter the IP there. It should bring back the information about the
IP like the company that has registered it and various other bits.
Just enter the name of the company into google to find out if its and
ISP.

If not then he is connecting via some sort of proxy and there is very
little that you can do except to ask the company to give you details.

Guy Dawson wrote:

> A colleague has joined from another company who organised his broadband
> connection.

At home ? Otherwise what's the relevance ?


> My colleague does not know who the broadband ISP is

Why did you employ someone so retarded ?


> and his old company have not yet come back with an answer.

What's his old company got to do with it ?


> Is there a website or someone I can contact to find out which ISP is
> supplying broadband?

How can someone be so dim ? Dumbing down wins as ever.
You could do with smartening up yourself. What age are you and what
position do you hold in your company ?

You're not an MBA are you ?

Graham

Yddap wrote:

> Do a search on his IP address
> ( obtainable from the command prompt for a single Box or from his router if
> he uses one )

LMFAO ! I can see them spending hours trying to work that one out.

Graham

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> > Is there a website or someone I can contact to find out which ISP is
> > supplying broadband?
>
> Do you know his IP address? Try his router control panel.
> Then do a whois lookup on the IP address, and a bit of
> intuitive deduction, should give his provider.
> It's not always obvious, Tesco BB, probably doesn't
> say Tesco.
> Orange probably says Wannadoo France.
> Google for whois, that should give you a lot of
> whois lookup sites.
> The command pathping should start with his router,
> then go through several of his ISP's routers.
> So do a pathping www.google.com

I can't wait to see if he understood a single word of that.

Graham

Guy Dawson wrote:
> A colleague has joined from another company who organised his broadband
> connection. My colleague does not know who the broadband ISP is and his
> old company have not yet come back with an answer.
>
> Is there a website or someone I can contact to find out which ISP is
> supplying broadband?
>
> TIA!
>
> Guy
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> Guy Dawson I.T. Manager Crossflight Ltd
> (E-Mail Removed)


Do a traceroute.

Then read a book.

Guy Dawson wrote:
> A colleague has joined from another company who organised his broadband
> connection. My colleague does not know who the broadband ISP is and his
> old company have not yet come back with an answer.
>
> Is there a website or someone I can contact to find out which ISP is
> supplying broadband?
>
> TIA!
>
> Guy
> -- --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Guy Dawson I.T. Manager Crossflight Ltd
> (E-Mail Removed)

Try www.speedtest.net , usually shows the ISP .

HTH

Steve H

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>> Is there a website or someone I can contact to find out which ISP is
>> supplying broadband?
>
> Do you know his IP address?

Nope. His username/password is in his previous router which
his previous company have reused.

BT Broadband were eventually able to tell me who his ISP
was once I could confirm a bunch of my colleagues personal
details while my colleague (not IT literate) was standing
by my desk.

"Eeyore" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
>
> Guy Dawson wrote:
>
>> A colleague has joined from another company who organised his broadband
>> connection.
>
> At home ? Otherwise what's the relevance ?
>
>
>> My colleague does not know who the broadband ISP is
>
> Why did you employ someone so retarded ?
>
>
>> and his old company have not yet come back with an answer.
>
> What's his old company got to do with it ?
>
>
>> Is there a website or someone I can contact to find out which ISP is
>> supplying broadband?
>
> How can someone be so dim ? Dumbing down wins as ever.
> You could do with smartening up yourself. What age are you and what
> position do you hold in your company ?
>
> You're not an MBA are you ?
>
> Graham
>
They probably sacked him and want to prevent him from causing a nuisance
or logging in to use the connection or accounts without permission. Maybe
to stop him using contacts or reading emails previously sent.
If the old company had any sense they would have removed the account.