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Pricefighter

2005-10-02, 2:45 am

If you are using a usb adsl modem, do you have to keep your
pc/broadband on all the time to use the service? Thanks.

Ad C

2005-10-02, 5:45 pm

In article <pJO%e.386$rp1.198@newsfe4-win.ntli.net>, paul@nospam.me.uk
says...
> The Freetalk box needs to plug into a Ethernet port. If you only have a USB
> ADSL modem I would change it for possibly a Linksys WAG54



So that will take out about 705 of people. Most people uses a USB modem,
because most ISPs gives them away free.

Mind you most people I know do use a router, but only because I tell
them it is the best way to go and is better tha using a USB modem.
But if I did not advise them, then most of them would stay with the UsB
modem.
Lurch

2005-10-02, 5:45 pm

On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 14:50:30 +0100, Ad C <graphi47uk@y.a.h.o.o.co.uk>
scrawled:

>In article <pJO%e.386$rp1.198@newsfe4-win.ntli.net>, paul@nospam.me.uk
>says...
>
>
>So that will take out about 705 of people. Most people uses a USB modem,
>because most ISPs gives them away free.
>

Hmmm, there's a message in there somewhere. Are you saying that the
above advice to ditch the USB modem is incorrect?

>Mind you most people I know do use a router, but only because I tell
>them it is the best way to go and is better tha using a USB modem.


Now I'm confused, you're saying get a router?

>But if I did not advise them, then most of them would stay with the UsB
>modem.


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Ad C

2005-10-02, 5:45 pm

In article <visvj1hkilk05fp033jhmbhf09jiooh388@4ax.com>,
usenet@sjwelectrical.co.uk says...
> Hmmm, there's a message in there somewhere. Are you saying that the
> above advice to ditch the USB modem is incorrect?



That was suppose to be 75% of people, not 750.

I have never said anything about keeping a USB modem, what I said is
that that most people will have a USB modem, which makes the Freetalk
adaptor useless. I just wondering how many people dixons are going to
con into paying sky high prices for routers?



>
> Now I'm confused, you're saying get a router?


I always have recomended a router, even if you only got one computer on
the net. a router offers better security, it do not take resouces away
from the computer and it is on all the time, no logtgin ionto the net is
needed.


>
> Table, head.
>


alexd

2005-10-03, 5:45 pm

Ad C wrote:

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> I just wondering how many people dixons are going to
> con into paying sky high prices for routers?


I think DSG are way ahead of you on that one ;-)

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Ad C

2005-10-03, 5:45 pm

In article <1190545.52PVABOZdR@ale.cx>, look@my.sig says...
>
>
> I think DSG are way ahead of you on that one ;-)
>
>

No doubt.

Talking of which, I had to pop into P.C world this evening on the way
back from work, for some floppy disks. while I was in there I had a look
around for this Freetalk thing, just to have a nose. I could not find
anything about it, no posters, not boxes nothing. since Currys is next
door I popped into there as well. But once again, nothing about
Freetalk. Is DSG really serious about this Freetalk thing?
when they launched Freeserve, it was everywhere,


PhilT

2005-10-03, 5:45 pm

" I could not find
anything about it, no posters, not boxes nothing. "

my local PC world had flag things at the tills but nowt else,
presumably you have to ask. Dixons in town had two piles of boxes - the
monthly and yearly versions, as did The Link.

Phil

Ad C

2005-10-04, 2:45 am

In article <1128377383.012960.216030@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
newsnet@gmail.com says...
> " I could not find
> anything about it, no posters, not boxes nothing. "
>
> my local PC world had flag things at the tills but nowt else,
> presumably you have to ask. Dixons in town had two piles of boxes - the
> monthly and yearly versions, as did The Link.
>

Nothing in currys either, maybe they think people will not be interested
in this city.
Phil Thompson

2005-10-04, 7:45 am

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 08:20:47 +0100, Ad C <graphi47uk@y.a.h.o.o.co.uk>
wrote:

>maybe they think people will not be interested
>in this city.


buying floppy disks may reinforce this prejudice :-)

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Ad C

2005-10-04, 7:45 am

In article <u4f4k11400ic2gkaq6uq4rnarjamaj0vi0@4ax.com>,
phil.thompson@spamcop.net says...
>
>
> buying floppy disks may reinforce this prejudice :-)
>

I don't use them normally, but I got my Sata drivers on floppy and I
need it when I reinstall windows or use Ghost to reinstall the O/S.

I use Zip disks for documents.
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