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    Post office – telephone line activation, better than BT!

    Irrespective of the type of fault, you will need to report it to your provider, who will in turn escalate it to BT Openreach where appropriate
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    Macbook for gf?

    University Staff are also eligable to get the HE discount on Apple products
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    OSI & Network components?

    Some sort of homework?
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    Off-site anti-spam & anti-virus

    Altman Technologies - www.altman.co.uk To add to the list, they also offer a free 2 week evaluation
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    E1/T1 suppliers

    Question is, how much do you want to spend?
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    E1/T1 suppliers

    SDSL may be a cheaper alternative to LES10, actually its EES10 now BT have rebranded the whole range and put the price up too...
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    Cisco Visio Toplology Stencils (Shapes)

    There's a My Shapes folder in My Documents, unzip the stencil to there and you should be able to access the stencils through File > Shapes > My Shapes
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    What's the furthest CAT 5 cable you can use?

    Oh I don't know, that long link through the woods was pretty reliable at uni;)
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    Test Socket

    You may have some dodgy extensions, or your face plate may be faulty. Can you elaborate on how you have things set up. If it is the faceplate, then Openreach will probably charge you for replacement as the line will no doubt test fine from the test socket out.
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    How is the internet so fast?

    Yes, they use BGP routing over the SJ5 backbone.
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    How is the internet so fast?

    As csmager and morfmedia have already pointed out. It's down to the service provider in this case JANET UK who provide the SJ5 backbone and the regional network operator, who will provide the onward connection to the end site. Most of it is delivered over leased fibre circuits, therefore have...
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    Throttling a house mates internet connection?

    IIRC it has WPA/WPA2 can't remember which, in addition to WEP, you just have to log into the BTHomehub to change the settings.
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    Traffic Analysing

    Do you not have the ability to collect interface statistics for all ports on the switch using SNMP? This would indicate the interface with whatever is sucking up the bandwidth. As for sniffing, perhaps a ntop may be a solution for you, once you have sorted out the port spanning, if that is...
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    Phone Line activation

    Mine was activated within 3 hours
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    No connectivty for VMware image

    Reading the original post, to me it would appear that the VM can talk to the rest of the network at an IP level. I would agree with marc2003, bridged mode is better. Is file and printer sharing installed/enabled in the network settings on the XP VM? What about windows firewall, does it need...
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    No connectivty for VMware image

    When you say can't connect to the network, what do you mean?
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    regional wireless settings.....no uk?

    The setting your looking for may also be called ETSI
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    How often to BT update new line details?

    although you live only 200m away from the exchange your line might be not take a direct route to the exchange. I know someone that had a line that went off over a mountain and back to the exchange and he got aroung 1meg max
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    Router Problems!

    most likely that the reset put the router back to a 192.168.0.* address. I'm going to assume that DHCP is enabled on the router by default, and your getting addresses by DHCP on your client machines. Try ipconfig /all from a command prompt on one of your client machines (assuming it's windows)
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