NTL install on Friday - Advice wanted

Mum is getting NTL Broadband installed at her home on Friday.

I'll be travelling down to see her on Friday evening and will set the
PC up for her. I'll be taking one of those Ebuyer £2.41 NICs Quickfind
31095 to fit in her PCI Dell PC.

I have read a couple of messages in this group regarding registration
etc - one notably from Mike Jones on 6 Jan.

Mum already has an existing ntlworld email and web space - how will
this be affected? Or won't it?

Also, will mum need to register the MAC address on Friday once
installed? I seem to remember having to register a MAC address when I
had NTL installed about 3 years ago. I don't want to get back to mum's
at 8pm on Friday only to discover that the MAC registration line shuts
for the weekend at 7pm

Any hints or tips gratefully received.

Mum's PC is W98 with 64 Meg memory.

Thanks for any help

Noz
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Email nozza underscore wales at yahoo co uk

Make sure you have a proper firewall, either Zone Alarm or even the RP614
from netgear.
"Nozza" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Mum is getting NTL Broadband installed at her home on Friday.
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> Email nozza underscore wales at yahoo co uk

On 19 Jan 2004, Nozza wrote

> Mum is getting NTL Broadband installed at her home on Friday.
>
> I'll be travelling down to see her on Friday evening and will set
> the PC up for her. I'll be taking one of those Ebuyer £2.41 NICs
> Quickfind 31095 to fit in her PCI Dell PC.
>
> I have read a couple of messages in this group regarding
> registration etc - one notably from Mike Jones on 6 Jan.
>
> Mum already has an existing ntlworld email and web space - how
> will this be affected? Or won't it?
>
> Also, will mum need to register the MAC address on Friday once
> installed? I seem to remember having to register a MAC address
> when I had NTL installed about 3 years ago. I don't want to get
> back to mum's at 8pm on Friday only to discover that the MAC
> registration line shuts for the weekend at 7pm
>
> Any hints or tips gratefully received.
>
> Mum's PC is W98 with 64 Meg memory.

Can't help with the registration questions -- it's been 3 years since I
did that, and I've forgotten the details -- but it would be worth
phoning to check about the MAC issue, and also to read through the
stuff on Robin Walker's pages --
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d...ips/index.html)

FWIW, I'd also buy her a prezzie and bring along an extra stick of RAM
for her. Once you've installed a firewall -- you *are* installing a
firewall for her, yes? -- and she decides to run her e-mail and
some other stuff in the background, my guess is she's going to need
more memory than that.

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Cheers,
Harvey

For e-mail, change harvey to whhvs.

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:42:51 GMT, Harvey Van Sickle
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


>Can't help with the registration questions -- it's been 3 years since I
>did that, and I've forgotten the details -- but it would be worth
>phoning to check about the MAC issue, and also to read through the
>stuff on Robin Walker's pages --
> (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d...ips/index.html)
>
>FWIW, I'd also buy her a prezzie and bring along an extra stick of RAM
>for her. Once you've installed a firewall -- you *are* installing a
>firewall for her, yes? -- and she decides to run her e-mail and
>some other stuff in the background, my guess is she's going to need
>more memory than that.

More memory... have you seen the price of memory Dells? Blimey! It'd
be cheaper to buy a new PC! Seriously - Ebuyer sell pcs at about 250
quid, and dell want around 110 for more. Unless of course...

The PC is a PIII 550 and runs fine with OE and IE.

As for a firewall - I've downloaded the latest zonelabs thingie in
preparation.

When I upgrade this machine - it'll find a good home with mum - but in
the mean time

Thanks for the tips and links

Noz
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Email nozza underscore wales at yahoo co uk

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:20:20 -0000, "Tony Corley"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Make sure you have a proper firewall, either Zone Alarm or even the RP614
>from netgear.
>"Nozza" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed).. .
>> Mum is getting NTL Broadband installed at her home on Friday.
>> --
>> Email nozza underscore wales at yahoo co uk
>

Thanks - yes - have downloaded Zonealarm in preparation.

Cheers

Noz


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Email nozza underscore wales at yahoo co uk

Nozza wrote:
> Mum is getting NTL Broadband installed at her home on Friday.
>
>

My advice, avoid NTL like te plague.....

I was with them, it was horrendous, piss poor reliability, and made it
near impossible to leave them (I had to contact my bank and cancel the
direct debit, as it was so diffucult to cancel it through NTL.).

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:04:02 +0000, Zapp Brannigan
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Nozza wrote:
>> Mum is getting NTL Broadband installed at her home on Friday.
>>
>My advice, avoid NTL like te plague.....
>
>I was with them, it was horrendous, piss poor reliability, and made it
>near impossible to leave them (I had to contact my bank and cancel the
>direct debit, as it was so diffucult to cancel it through NTL.).

As a balance to this, I've been with NTL for nearly 12 months now and
receive perfectly good service. The news servers are a bit dodgy, tho
the text only one is ok, and email is sometimes sporadic, bot
connectivity and general internet use is good.

"Nozza" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:42:51 GMT, Harvey Van Sickle
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
> >Can't help with the registration questions -- it's been 3 years since I
> >did that, and I've forgotten the details -- but it would be worth
> >phoning to check about the MAC issue, and also to read through the
> >stuff on Robin Walker's pages --
> > (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d...ips/index.html)
> >
> >FWIW, I'd also buy her a prezzie and bring along an extra stick of RAM
> >for her. Once you've installed a firewall -- you *are* installing a
> >firewall for her, yes? -- and she decides to run her e-mail and
> >some other stuff in the background, my guess is she's going to need
> >more memory than that.
>
> More memory... have you seen the price of memory Dells? Blimey! It'd
> be cheaper to buy a new PC! Seriously - Ebuyer sell pcs at about 250
> quid, and dell want around 110 for more. Unless of course...

Crucial sell memory for Dells. An extra 64 MB should be around a tenner.

http://www.crucial.com/


>
> The PC is a PIII 550 and runs fine with OE and IE.
>
> As for a firewall - I've downloaded the latest zonelabs thingie in
> preparation.
>
> When I upgrade this machine - it'll find a good home with mum - but in
> the mean time
>
> Thanks for the tips and links
>
> Noz
> --
> Email nozza underscore wales at yahoo co uk

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:15:23 +0000, Mark McIntyre
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:04:02 +0000, Zapp Brannigan
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Nozza wrote:
>>> Mum is getting NTL Broadband installed at her home on Friday.
>>>
>>My advice, avoid NTL like te plague.....
>>
>>I was with them, it was horrendous, piss poor reliability, and made it
>>near impossible to leave them (I had to contact my bank and cancel the
>>direct debit, as it was so diffucult to cancel it through NTL.).
>
>As a balance to this, I've been with NTL for nearly 12 months now and
>receive perfectly good service. The news servers are a bit dodgy, tho
>the text only one is ok, and email is sometimes sporadic, bot
>connectivity and general internet use is good.
>

Not the kind of Internet experience I would be happy with and I
suspect many others as well. I'll put this ISP in the same pile as
AOL and BT.

DAVID BRADLEY

"David Bradley" <(E-Mail Removed)7> wrote in message
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> Not the kind of Internet experience I would be happy with and I
> suspect many others as well. I'll put this ISP in the same pile as
> AOL and BT.
>
> DAVID BRADLEY

NTL are fine, As Mark said they have some "Minor" Problems from time to
time..

Not as bad as Bt anyway.