white90 Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 BT I'm 8.5km from the exchange and it works pretty well a couple of issues but they were sorted early on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V8 Freak Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 I had major issues with BT many years ago and now we are totally BT free in our house. NTL provide all of our services. We have a 10MB connection now. The service has been very reliable for last few years. Other family members have Pipex (BT Based) which is also proving very reliable. I also help friends and family to maintain their computers.. (Am I mad or what !) This may be a gerneralisation but..... Those that run AOL have had far more general PC issues than those without. Those that have converted into AOL generally develop PC performance issues. (The AOL program is Bloatware and incredibly resource hungry.) It seems weird though, those who like the "We will show you how to live your life" approach from AOL are very forgiving when it dies on them, fails to connect, or just kills their machine. Neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
najw Posted September 18, 2006 Author Share Posted September 18, 2006 Useful feedback thanks. As some of you sound like you know what you are talking about, maybe you can shed some light on my dilemma. I can receive emails OK I get periods when I can't send email I can't 'Reply' to an email but can send a new one to the sender I can open web pages I can't upload on webpages like forums or forms Does this sound like an ISP problem or a line fault? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LandyManLuke Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 Assuming your upload connection speed is not dire, that sounds like PC faults, rather than Broadband faults. Luke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthdicky Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 Are you using the same old email address with the new service? That would mean you could receive emails on the old address but probably not send them as you are trying (and failing) to connect to the old server to send mail. Find out the new service's server to send mail through and it should work. If that doesn't make sense let me know and I'll go through it step by step! Richard edited to add: eg. I had a uni address which could be picked up through any connection, but to send mail through it I had to set outlook to send via smtp.blueyonder.co.uk, as blueyonder were my ISP. As long as the reply-to address is set to the one you want it set to, nobody will notice which ISP has actually sent it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LandyManLuke Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 Good point, most ISPs will allow you to collect mail from other ISP's servers through theirs, but not send. do you have different email addresses? Luke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
najw Posted September 18, 2006 Author Share Posted September 18, 2006 No I have created a new mail account with all the new details, I should add that this problem only started last week and has been intermittent (but more off than on) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FridgeFreezer Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 The line is just a pipe from your PC to the ISP, if you can get one bit of data down it you should be able to get any bit of data down it. Everything else is software. If you really must know, your connection is only layer 1-2 or 3 of the OSI 7-Layer model, the other layers are further up/down the chain at each end and are what determins why one service will work but another won't. Damn, I've obviously been on one too many IP training courses... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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