Re: Wanadoo (semi) sucks

J. Simon van der Walt <j.simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<Snipped Text>
> I say *semi*-sucks because in the end they refunded me my first month's
> billing without quibble. Well, that is, after I'd already sent them a
> written letter of complaint and told them I'd reported them to Ofcom.
>
> (Which I did actually; their guy was very helpful, said more or less
> straight away I should have just gone to another isp. Coulda... wanted
> to keep existing email...)

I've been with Wandaoo for a year now, and have been very impressed with
it so far, not one cause to call support. I was with PlusNet before
that, and need to contact them monthly as one or another of their
servers failed.

> Sorry, ranting boringly now. Questions;
>
> It looks like I'm getting download speeds of 230 KB/s; does that sound
> right?

A tad low, I'm getting about 250k here, but that's on a wired network.

> The Buffalo wireless router; now it's finally connected, should I just
> leave it on 24/7 for the next couple of years, like I did with the old
> Quadra which used to route my isdn connection?
>
> In the router setup page, under DHCP, there was a setting for leases to
> expire after 24 hours. Is that ok? I would have thought that should have
> been 'never'?

I would have thought so. Which side of the router though? You use DHCP
between you and the ISP, which they will control the length of lease
normally a day or two. You then usually setup DHCP between the router
and the desktop. I say usually on the second part because that would be
the simplest setup. There's nothing to stop you using a fixed IP setup
on the internal network.

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Andy Hewitt ** FAF#1, (Ex-OSOS#5) - FJ1200 ABS
Honda Civic: Windows free zone (Mac G5 Dual Processor)
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/thehewitts2/index.htm
(updated Aug 28 2005)
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