When O2 broadband launched they announced that there would be a £5 per month discount for existing contract customers which was a great incentive and one that many customers took up . But that didn’t help loyal pay as you go customers who were left paying full price .
Well from tomorrow 22nd February they are extending their discount to all o2 customers and at the same £5 discount rate - the packages for existing customers now look like this
- Standard - £7.50 per month
- Premium - £10.00 per month
- Ultimate - £15.00 per month
the only condition on pre pay customers is that they will receive their discount as long as they spend a minimum of £10 on top ups every 3 months which shouldn’t be a problem for most users
to find out more please visit O2 broadband
If any of you have Sky broadband you will know that the bundled netgear router is shipped out with wireless security turned on as default and a network key is issued to allow you to connect to it.
This all sounds great in theory but it turns out that the default security setup has a major flaw. The network key can be worked potentially giving hackers access to your network. Sky’s network keys are generated via an algorithm calculation on the routers MAC address.
For a hacker to get the routers MAC address would be childs play and the algorithm’s to generate the network key is far from unbreakable.
Whats the moral of story? well if you are one of the 1 million or so sky broadband customers and have used the default security setup then its time to change your network key to something “random” if your need help doing this try here
Today we have launched our sister site at http://mobile.broadband.org. The site is dedicated to comparing offers in the the growing market of 3G mobile broadband connections for laptops and people on the move. If you want to find out more about mobile broadband feel free to check it out
This week the old sky smtp mail servers have officially been switched off so make sure you have updated your mail settings from smtp.sky.com to the new smtp.tools.sky.com and the tcp port is now to be set to 465 and make sure you enable SSL authentication in your mail software
more info can found on the sky broadband website
According to figures released today SKY have grown their broadband subscriber base by a massive 28% in their first quarter of the financial year to nearly 1.2 million customers , they look set to hit their target of 3million customers by 2010.
The fast growth in their Broadband customer base is no doubt partly due to their TV / Broadband bundle offers where customers can get Free broadband if they subscribe to certain TV packages
information on sky broadband can be found here
Today we have added a Top rated section to our broadband reviews section which shows the the overall top rated broadband supplier for each of the categories we ask users to rate their supplier on when they submit a review.
We will also be adding a league table of the best and worst performing providers in the future when we have enough review data so if you haven’t already rated your provider please do so, also if you provider is not listed please check back in the coming weeks as we add more providers to the site
After the success of our broadband speed tester we have have just finished a new feature on the site. An interactive broadband download calculator , to help user get a rough idea of the monthly download limit they will need when choosing a new broadband package.
To use the calculator read the questions about your internet activities then slide the sliders to answer, the total monthly usage will be updated after moving each slider. If you find any bugs please let us know in our forum
back in September we reported on AOL’s Free Laptop offering , well now they are giving customers the choice of a free dell laptop or a free PS2 when they sign up to a 24 month contract on their Wireless Plus broadband package
Visit AOL Broadband here
Virgin Media have announced they will be rolling out free upgrades for customers on its ‘L’ package which currently offers 4mb download speeds. The upgrade will more than double the connection speeds to 10mb and the upgrades will start towards the end of February with all customers upgrades expected to be completed by the end of summer ! This is great news for existing customers and it will bring the package into line with rival adsl up to 8mb offerings.
Visit Virgin’s Website for more information
We are pleased to announce the release of a new feature on our site, broadband reviews! you can find our new reviews section here - broadband reviews
You can rate each provider using our 5 star system for customer service - speed and reliability as well as an overall rating . The reviews section is new and we need some reviews to get it started so if you could submit a review for your provider then that would help alot
thanks
Broadband Org team
