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transfer broadband to new computer?
05-12-2009 7:19 PM
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05-12-2009 8:25 PM
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Re: transfer broadband to new computer?
05-12-2009 8:38 PM
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What make & model is the box that connects your PC to the filter in the phone socket?
Re: transfer broadband to new computer?
05-12-2009 9:56 PM
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- then as Taxi... says - you just plug the Ethernet cable from PC to router, and run the Windows network set up .
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05-12-2009 10:12 PM
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If you intend to stay with Plusnet you could get a router for the cost of the postage
A new computer will come with Windows 7 and it will find the router automatically and I think that the Plusnet router is preconfigured and will automatically connect
Re: transfer broadband to new computer?
05-12-2009 10:24 PM
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Re: transfer broadband to new computer?
05-12-2009 11:43 PM
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Quote from: Oldjim the Plusnet router is preconfigured and will automatically connect
Yes - they do have this easy set up feature
http://community.plus.net/blog/2009/08/06/router-setup-the-easy-way/
Some of us here were part of the trials before it went live - it works well .
Re: transfer broadband to new computer?
06-12-2009 2:41 AM
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Routers include a friendly web interface for configuration purposes (a router contains its own processor and memory etc).
It also contains a firewall, to help protect PC's with flabby security.
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Re: transfer broadband to new computer?
06-12-2009 10:19 AM
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If you have a router then no set-up is required - just connect a cable from your router to the new computer
If you have a modem (or any other device that uses a USB connector) then you are faced with some difficulty. A disk supplied in 2005 will not have suitable USB drivers for a new computer.
If you don't know whether it's a modem or a router post whatever part number it has and we will tell you.
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08-12-2009 3:03 PM
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08-12-2009 3:05 PM
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It was some bit of cheap USB junk.
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08-12-2009 3:12 PM
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08-12-2009 3:31 PM
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It almost certainly isn't actually a router as modern PC's will talk happily to almost any router.
It's more likely to be an ADSL modem with a USB connection to the PC.
In January 2005 I was still on a fixed 512kbps ADSL connection with a USB device, now I'm running a Netgear router on a 21mbps ADSL2+ line. 40 times faster downloads!
Re: transfer broadband to new computer?
08-12-2009 3:38 PM
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This was before I'd ever heard of USB - I had a 1 port (ethernet) router.
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