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That annoying pipex spam

I've been with Pipex broadband for over 4 years now. At first everything was fine, they were reliable, good value for money, no downtimes....and I thought there aren't any other problems that might arise.

I was wrong however, I did not consider spam mail. Back then it was non-existent but lately particularly this year spam has increased exponentially. Right now I can only say that Pipex is riddled with spam email, for example today I've received 34 email messages and while I haven't bothered to check them, I can safely bet that 99% of those messages are total spam.

So ladies and gents, are any of you getting this same problem? by the way I've used different anti-spam programs but I think this issue should be tackled at the source not left to us users.

I am strongly considering jumping ship, preferably to a wireless broadband ISP but I don't know which ones are reliable and fast.

Any ideas?
 
Have you considered just changing your email to be independent of your ISP.

We can offer Webmail with AV/ASpam, POP3 and IMAP4 access. See http://www.ccsleeds.co.uk/webmail-hosting.html for overview of Webmail only.

You could then take your own .uk domain and have a couple of accounts for a tenner a year.

I need to formalise some packages and put them up as currently we only really give them away to our customers, but if you are interested drop me a line and I will get the web girlies to pop some packages up soon.
 
why not simply change your email address, cant say ive any great love of pipex but its not really their problem, there is no perfect way to filter spam as innocent messages can get flagged as well so no isp would want to get accused of deleting legit messages by trying to stop all spam at their end, its your email address that is the problem, once its been compromised its had its chips, no way back so just dump it and move on.
it does not matter who your isp is, spam is generated because someone has picked up your email address, isp's hate it as well because of the server space it clogs up so they are hardly likely to go dishing out your email address to spammers
 
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Pretty much any connection can be made wireless.

If I had my pick of ISPs (which i don't, due to location unfortunately) I'd go for Be.

"best" for me being fast upload speed at a very nice price. "best" for you might be something completely different though, so why don't you tell us what you look for in an isp, how much you're happy to pay, and what you do with the connection?
 
Pretty much any connection can be made wireless.

If I had my pick of ISPs (which i don't, due to location unfortunately) I'd go for Be.

"best" for me being fast upload speed at a very nice price. "best" for you might be something completely different though, so why don't you tell us what you look for in an isp, how much you're happy to pay, and what you do with the connection?

I've looked at the Be website and their offers look good but the reviews are varied, which is what makes it confusing and hard to decide.

Right now I pay around £27 for my Pipex Xtreme connection, and I'm willing to go a little more if the ISP has a good connection speed (8Mb as advertised?), I do a lot of downloading so that's a factor too.
 
I use Be and am pretty satisfied - I get about 14mb on the up to 24mb package, and I know I'm not that close to the exchange.

As has already been said, pretty much any broadband connection can be made wireless, and with Be you recieve a wireless router as std.

They aren't perfect (support is a little patchy) but they are one of the better ones.

At £18 it's good value too
 
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I use Be and am pretty satisfied - I get about 14mb on the up to 24mb package, and I know I'm not that close to the exchange.

As has already been said, pretty much any broadband connection can be made wireless, and with Be you recieve a wireless router as std.

They aren't perfect (support is a little patchy) but they are one of the better ones.

At £18 it's good value too

Thing about wireless is I've bought 2 different routers previously (netgear then belkin) and I couldn't make them work for me, whether it is my lack of knowledge in routers or the machines themselves I don't know. That's the major issue with wifi for me.
 
The Be one is a Speedtouch, and whilt I don't like it because I get the impression that the UI has been simplified, pethaps that might be a good thing for you.

I'm a geek and prefer more complicated UI's where all the options are accessible, whereas the Be router is a little more rerstricted than i would like
 
The Be one is a Speedtouch, and whilt I don't like it because I get the impression that the UI has been simplified, pethaps that might be a good thing for you.

I'm a geek and prefer more complicated UI's where all the options are accessible, whereas the Be router is a little more rerstricted than i would like

Restricted in what aspects please?

(thanks for all the input) :)
 
I have a Zoom X6 and got it working first time, never used wireless before and first time with a new laptop as well.
 
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