I am off to the shops with Mrs Neighbour tomorrow with the intention of 
buying a laptop.

She seems happy to sign up with Plus.Net, I am going to suggest Option 1 
as I think her usage will be quite limited, at least to start with.

Couple of questions:

Can she sign up by calling Customer Service on 0845 1400200?
She will need a wireless router - is the £29.99 one-port router OK does 
anybody know? If not we will need to buy one while we are out.
I don't know what stats the router will keep. Does anybody know of an app 
she could install to keep tabs on her usage - or is that info available 
from Plus.Net?

Many thanks :-)

-- 
Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
(Ken Olson, president Digital Equipment, 1977)

Jeff Gaines wrote:
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> Couple of questions:
>
> Can she sign up by calling Customer Service on 0845 1400200?

That's the number I have for Plusnet help/sales so it should be OK

> She will need a wireless router - is the £29.99 one-port router OK
> does anybody know? If not we will need to buy one while we are out.

I've never understood what a 1 port wireless router does.  Will it only 
allow you to connect one computer to it by wireless,  or there one port to 
allow a you to connect a single  computer to it by cable as well as by 
wireless?   I would think that it would be fine.

> I don't know what stats the router will keep. Does anybody know of an
> app she could install to keep tabs on her usage - or is that info
> available from Plus.Net?
>
Plusnet allow you to monitor your usage from their portal.  They email you 
if you go over it and inform you of the extra charge they will debit you 
for.  They will then charge for the extra Gb they've allowed.
-- 
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flyingnun@tiscali.co.uk FN 2°°8 +,  Mungo Brandybuck of Buckland

Jeff Gaines has brought this to us :
> Does anybody know of an app she could install to keep tabs on her usage

I use Bandwidth Monitor an excellent free product which does the job 
perfectly,
http://www.rokario.com/products/bandmon/2-0/

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Regards,
Frogman,

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"Jeff Gaines"  wrote in message 
news:xn0fsd3jg0000005@news.individual.net...
> I am off to the shops with Mrs Neighbour tomorrow with the intention of 
> buying a laptop.
> She seems happy to sign up with Plus.Net, I am going to suggest Option 1 
> as I think her usage will be quite limited, at least to start with.
> Couple of questions: Can she sign up by calling Customer Service on 0845 
> 1400200?

Or 01142965198 if, like me you don't call 08 numbers :-) Though there's 
something in the back of my minds says that you can't actually sign up over 
the phone but that could have changed.

> She will need a wireless router - is the £29.99 one-port router OK does 
> anybody know? If not we will need to buy one while we are out.
> I don't know what stats the router will keep. Does anybody know of an app 
> she could install to keep tabs on her usage - or is that info available 
> from Plus.Net?

No idea about the router it was only a modem when I signed up :-) For her 
usage see info at http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/usage/vmbu.shtml
-- 
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People will forget what you said.
People will forget what you did, but
People will never forget how you made them feel.

On 06/07/2008 in message  Flyiñg Ñuñ 
2°°8 + wrote:

[snipped]

Thanks FN :-)

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Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK
There are 3 types of people in this world. Those who can count, and those 
who can't.

On 06/07/2008 in message  
Frogman wrote:

>I use Bandwidth Monitor an excellent free product which does the job 
>perfectly,
>http://www.rokario.com/products/bandmon/2-0/

Thanks for that, am going to try it myself :-)

-- 
Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK
You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks

On 06/07/2008 in message  Rabbit wrote:

>Or 01142965198 if, like me you don't call 08 numbers :-) Though there's 
>something in the back of my minds says that you can't actually sign up 
>over the phone but that could have changed.

That could be fun, she could always sign up here but there must be some 
way for a "first timer" to sign up hopefully :-)

>No idea about the router it was only a modem when I signed up :-) For her 
>usage see info at http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/usage/vmbu.shtml

Thanks!

-- 
Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK
This is as bad as it can get, but don't bet on it

Jeff Gaines laid this down on the screen :
> Thanks for that, am going to try it myself :-)

If you want any detailed instructions on how to set it to fit your 
needs I can mail you some.

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Frogman,

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Jeff Gaines wrote:

> Couple of questions:
> 
> Can she sign up by calling Customer Service on 0845 1400200?

Yep, give us a call on 0114 296 5198.

> She will need a wireless router - is the £29.99 one-port router OK does 
> anybody know? If not we will need to buy one while we are out.

The 1-port wireless router is a D-Link at the moment. It allows one 
computer to be connected via ethernet and then as many as a normal 
router via wireless.

> I don't know what stats the router will keep. Does anybody know of an 
> app she could install to keep tabs on her usage - or is that info 
> available from Plus.Net?

That's available on the website, we'll also email when you hit 80% of 
your allowance to let you know you're getting close to the limit.

Hope that helps, let me know if you have any other questions.

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|PlusNet plc.                            www.plus.net
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On 08/07/2008 in message <dMqdnfjCbIdH_u7VnZ2dnUVZ8sLinZ2d@posted.plusnet> 
PlusNet Support Team wrote:

>Hope that helps, let me know if you have any other questions.

It does indeed, thank you very much :-)

She has her laptop running, I've just helped her get the printer set up. 
We have a date for next Monday when I will burn the recovery DVDs for her 
and set her external drive up and I'll pass the info on then.

-- 
Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK
If it's not broken, mess around with it until it is