Broadband without a phoneline

[Haly]

Originally Posted by Knipples

Im sure I am, it just seems to be something I do about everything lately, probably due to the complete instability in my life right now, but thats another story.

Oh I know that feeling far too well! Try not to worry though In my experience, Virgin have been pretty calm about this sort of thing.

[iCraig]

Originally Posted by Knipples

Its not loads and loads, I just worry virgin might object if the household suddenly goes from pretty much no downloading (they only really use it for web browsing - I doubt they would know how to borrow an album or a film for example) to me downloading probably about 5 gigs worth of stuff a month.
I download songs pretty much weekly, and about an album a month, and half a dozen films/tv progs from my newsgroup. (I dont know what the speed is sorry)

To be honest, unless you're breaching Virgin's fair usage policy they can't say a thing. The connection is paid for, whether you're using 1% of it or 75% of it. If it suddenly goes up, they might notice, but they certainly can't complain and ask you to "go back to barely using it please"

Originally Posted by Knipples

Oooooh thats another question, is my newgroup account linked to my IP address, and will I need to do anything when my IP address changes to ensure that all runs smoothly?

I doubt it, my Giganews account is just username and password related. I can get access to usenet via any machine/program as long as I'm logged in through my account.

[Mark]

Easynews absolutely, definitely, positively isn't IP tied. Otherwise I'd not have been able to 'borrow' Desmo's account (briefly - I'll get my own if I need one again). You're not really supposed to do that, so they don't like it if you (a) use two IP addresses at the same time, or (b) change IP addresses a lot. Neither of those should be an issue.

[Del Lardo]

Put it this way, I've downloaded over 150GB/month for the last few months and Virgin have yet to send an assassination team out to get me so you should be fine. If you are really worried then do your downloading between midnight-7am when they turn the caps off.

If your Mum surfs wirelessly then you will just need to get your computer setup on their Wireless router. Virgin provide them free of charge to all their BB customers now so I'd be amazed if they didn't use that one.

The only problem you may have is if your parents can't remember their wireless key but you can find that out in 5 minutes by asking for help on here (the routers all use a standard username/password).

[Knipples]

Originally Posted by Del Lardo

The only problem you may have is if your parents can't remember their wireless key but you can find that out in 5 minutes by asking for help on here (the routers all use a standard username/password).

Thankyou for that, will remember it when it comes to accessing their network.

[Kell_ee001]

Originally Posted by Belmit

I find you can often just wipe it off with no ill effects.

Eugh!