Following on from the BBC’s Watchdog report last night about Wifi security, we’ve been receiving a number of calls from concerned customers worried that their wireless router is not secure.
Here’s some basic advice and we’ll show you where to get some guidance on how to protect your wireless network.
It may seem odd to write a blog about blogs. Having said that, it might also seem perfectly normal, too.
We’re proud of our blogs and hope you find them both interesting and informative. And we’re very pleased now to have been included in Online IT Degrees’ Top 100 Blogs for the industry.
On Saturday 10th October, the England football team are playing their penultimate qualifier in the Ukraine.
It will be the first time in recent history that an England qualifying match hasn’t been shown live on a ‘normal’ TV channel.
This event and the potential number of people streaming this are going to put pressure across the UK broadband networks. This could cause slower than expected speeds for everybody using the internet, including our customers.
The PC Pro Awards 2009 were awarded last night in London. We were awarded joint third place overall for Best ISP with 5 out of the available 6 stars. Plusnet did particularly well in the ‘Customer Support’ and ‘Would you recommend?’ categories. More…
This year’s Top 10 Broadband Awards were held in London yesterday.
Plusnet impressed the judges with our Value Broadband package at just £5.99 a month.
The Top10 judges examined the monthly costs associated with each of the nominated broadband providers and paid close attention to the extras included in the packages.
On awarding the prize for Best Value Home Broadband, the Top10 judges said: “At just £5.99 a month, Plusnet Value offers the best value home broadband on the market”. More…
Plusnet has been recommended in this year’s PC Advisor Broadband Survey.
The survey, now in its fifth year, asked people to provide feedback on the reliability of their connections, the download speeds they achieve and the customer service they receive. More…
According to Engadget, researchers in Japan have demonstrated that any WPA-protected connection using the TKIP algorithm can be broken into within a minute. The details will apparently be revealed September 25th at a tech conference. If you’re running WPA or a WEP/WPA2 combination maybe it’s time to revisit your wifi setup? More…
Top 10 Broadband, one of the UK’s most popular independent broadband price comparison sites has announced the nominees for its 2nd annual Top 10 Broadband Awards.
The second annual PHP TestFest is currently underway and this weekend the PHP NorthWest user group met to make their contribution with Ben, Rowan and myself representing Plusnet. The aim is to improve the amount of PHP source code that is covered by tests thereby giving developers increased confidence that unintentional behavior changes are not made. These tests are run frequency and the results are published on gcov.php.net.
Having used PHP for a number of years to build a career and pay the bills, it feels particularly satisfying to contribute something back to the project. Also, those people making significant contribution may apply for a $username@php.net email address which looks cool on a business card!
With the recent release of PHP5.3RC2, the main focus is on improving code coverage for the 5.3 branch. PHP core developer Scott MacVicar started the day with an introduction on how-to compile from source as well as run the existing tests. After pizza, we got down to the business of writing tests, starting with a simple example which I’ll run through… More…
After reading Matt’s Twitter blog that he published a couple of weeks ago, I thought I’d take the opportunity to write a follow-up piece about my own experiences with the increasingly popular micro-blogging cum social networking service of the moment.
What I found particularly interesting about Matt’s blog were some of the comments that readers had left. Whilst there aren’t many, what is evident from these comments is something that I’ve noticed on a much larger scale when chatting to friends, family and work associates about the new social networking phenomena – You either love it, or you hate it! More…
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