What a peace of  ****, I know ISP given free routers are generally poor quality  but this one takes a cake,

1) Wireless
 If you are connection any thing more than 5 equipement router struggles to cope you might think 5 is a lot of equipments,  but with smart phone , tablets  etc 2 people house hold will have 5+ items. Good thing ASA upheld the complaint about their Misleading Most Reliable Wireless Connection Claim  

Another thing Home Hub 3 will automatically enables BTFON their is no way to turn this off on the router.  It’s secure but still BT should have given me the choice not enable it by default.

2)wired 

only 100mb ports connection is ok but not much their to write about

3)DHCP

Router has DHCP server but you can’t change the DNS on that I think it’s to do with BTFON. If you use opendns, google dns or your own DNS then you have to manually change the dns server.

4) router interface 

Full of BT adverts their net protect plus and some other **** product I dont care about. Advanced setting dont have any thing advanced

5) No root acceess 

BT give you a user call admin on that box but can’t have a root access (some one need to crack this box I can donate this box for free to any one in few days

I have ordered Linksys  E4200 Dual-Band N Router

It was a fun day out, bigger event than I thought visited the computer museum and all other exhibitions at Bletchley Park.  retrocomputermuseum.co.uk had all the retro consoles where you can play it hands on it was fun.

Fun to see all the consoles and computers you read about them in real

Well what do you their is a switch top of the ringer volume button.  if that’s turned on phone wont ring and their will be no indication on the phone about that switch being tuned on, I spend nearly 1 hour wasting  time why the phone is not ringing.  turn the switch off and all ok

Just had a look at three’s site they selling their Skype S2 phone for £39.99, I think it’s a great value as we can use as a skype  with out toping up. It’s not bad looking and have HSDPA connection etc.. I been told it’s better than the 3’s INQ1 phones .

I might buy it not  sure

here is this software very good and free. Don’t pay for  softwares which ask ton of money.

We’ll It’s a good idea, but they should have opened up a bit and let us use our own calendar our own widgets etc. Guess they might open up in future.

 As it now I don’t see any use to me other than fancy £150 digital frame.

O2 Joggler page , PC pro review

What a crapy O2 software  which will spoil  all your wifi  connections home page and proxy setting etc. I like to keep things simple

so here is the setting after connecting the sim card to the modem just plug it in let windows install it as  a modem

go to network connections click create new connections give a name eg O2 PayG  select the correct usb modem O2’s case HUAWEI mobile connect 3G modem

on the number column type :-  *99#
user name put O2web
password just password

click finish,  make sure don’t make it a default connection (unless you want that to be)

then open your browser  type https://mobilebroadbandaccess.o2.co.uk/index/products enter the phone no of the sim (which will be on the sticker of the sim card)  buy the credit and enjoy.

This setting will work with linux macs and any ver of windows (if their is driver support)

It’s bit pricey at the moment but I can think of many reason to have this in home. Read the newspapers all my rss feeds etc on one place for every one in the family to read.

I wont buy it till the price come down to £100 or some subsidise services  we’ll see

Video from MS technet

Apparently it’s available to  MS partners and MSDN ,TechNet subscribers. I don’t want to pay £300 odd pounds to get technet plus subscription. If they make it £99. I’ll get so I get to use all pre release software legally