moving to Broadband

I am with Wanadoo 'anytime' I want to move to a broadband deal.Firstly with
Wanadoo, as I believe I can't use my email address with another ISP. What
are the likely difficulties with Wanadoo and a wireless modem?
Any suggestions, advice welcome.
George




george graham

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
george graham <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I am with Wanadoo 'anytime' I want to move to a broadband
> deal.Firstly with Wanadoo, as I believe I can't use my email address
> with another ISP. What are the likely difficulties with Wanadoo and a
> wireless modem?
> Any suggestions, advice welcome.
> George

By Wanadoo, I presume you mean the old Freeserve?

If so, you can continue to use your existing email address even if you get
your broadband from another ISP. For example, I used to be on Freeserve
Anytime and am now with PlusNet, but can still send and receive emails from
my Freeserve address. You need to do the following:
* Cancel your Anytime account and get it converted to a PAYG (pay as you go)
account
* Log onto your Freeserve account (using an analog modem) once every 3
months (just for a few seconds) to keep it active
* Change your email setup (in Outlook, or whatever) to use use your new
ISP's smtp server when sending emails (but using the original email address)
[e.g. I send emails from (E-Mail Removed) using "relay.plus.net" as
my smtp server (but still receive incoming mails from pop.freeserve.com
whilst being physically connected to PlusNet)]

Not sure what you mean by a wireless modem. Do you mean a wireless router?
If so, you can use one (provided it is intended for ADSL rather than cable)
to share your broadband connection regardless of which ISP you use. It's as
well to have at least one PC with a wired connection to the router to enable
you to configure it reliably.

HTH.
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Tiscali Tim <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
: * Change your email setup (in Outlook, or whatever) to use use your new
: ISP's smtp server when sending emails (but using the original email address)
: [e.g. I send emails from (E-Mail Removed) using "relay.plus.net" as
: my smtp server (but still receive incoming mails from pop.freeserve.com
: whilst being physically connected to PlusNet)]

Doing this is specifically blocked by some ISPs! It's how spammers spoof
peoples email addresses.

Brian McIlwrath wrote:
> Tiscali Tim <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> * Change your email setup (in Outlook, or whatever) to use use your
>> new ISP's smtp server when sending emails (but using the original
>> email address) [e.g. I send emails from (E-Mail Removed)
>> using "relay.plus.net" as my smtp server (but still receive incoming
>> mails from pop.freeserve.com whilst being physically connected to
>> PlusNet)]
>
> Doing this is specifically blocked by some ISPs! It's how spammers
> spoof peoples email addresses.

You can do it with us, since we allow access to our mail servers if you are
connected in our IP range, as well as if you are using our domain or other
authentication. I expect many other ISPs are the same.

Dominic

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> I am with Wanadoo 'anytime' I want to move to a broadband deal.Firstly
with
> Wanadoo, as I believe I can't use my email address with another ISP. What
> are the likely difficulties with Wanadoo and a wireless modem?
> Any suggestions, advice welcome.
> George


I have several Freeserve/Wanadoo Email addresses, including my 'main'
address, each one from a separate PAYG "No Ties" account. However, I haven't
actually used any of the accounts at all!
I just make sure the pop3 server is set to pop.freeserve.net irrespective of
the ISP I am using.

One thing though, every 90 days it will stop working when (or before) this
happens just go to
www.wanadoo.co.uk click 'retrieve account' (top right of page) input your
username/password and you're good for another 90 days, you can do this
whilst connected to your non-wanadoo account.



Graham.


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