orange wireless broadband

[1234567billy]

im thinking of changing my wanadoo broadband to orange wireless.
Anyone have experience of orange wireless- good or bad. is it easy to install
Thanks

[webdude]

I used to be with Tiscali, but they suffered a denial of service attack which meant that nobodys emails were getting delivered or sent, so I had to move quickly to another ISP.

I went for Orange and wished I hadn't. Their support is worse than useless - see this site to read all about it http://www.orangeproblems.co.uk/phpBB2/

Their phone service is not standard either, it is basically VOIP which means that the quality is not brilliant, and the only way you can access the free calls is by using their wifi router called Livebox.

As soon as my minimum contract is up I shall be looking to change to another ISP.

[1234567billy]

thank you. wont bother now.
the problem is that im trying to connect my granddaughters new wireless enabled laptop through wanadoo broadband.im computer illiterate. if i buy a wireless router will this work and will i also need a wireless connector for t?
any helphe laptop

[Louise07]

Hi, When we got a second hand desktop computer we signed up with Wanadoo and when they changed to Orange they just did this automatically and it did not affect our internet connection at all. At this point we were connected via a wired modem that Wanadoo / Orange sent to us. We have recently bought a new laptop and Playstation 3 and wanted to connect them to the internet wirelessly so we bought a Netgear wireless router from Currys everything we needed was included, I did not have to correspond with Orange at all. I have to say I found it a bit tricky setting up so I rang Netgear who talked me through it (at one point the battery on my handset died, and the call cut off so they rang me back, which was great!). Since then we have had the desktop PC, laptop and PS3 all connected wirelessly with no problems whatsoever. Hope this helps.

[1234567billy]

thanks Louise
does the laptop connect automatically to the computer without ant additional connection for the laptop. my laptop is new and wireless enabled.
Billy

[toby99]

We were with Wanadoo and then it was taken over by Orange, but we are not impressed with their connection speeds and ability to connect during busy periods. We also get disconnected numerous times a night. We will be swapping as soon as our contract is up this month, as we had the deal with mobile phones. Not sure who we will go with yet, but may look at Sky deals.

[Louise07]

Yes the laptop connects to the internet without any additional equipment, Netgear told me what to do on computer to get it all set up.