purplerabbits

Because I am moving flat I have to think of a whole lot of things. the most important, naturally, is Internet access. Currently I use ADSL through Andrews & Arnold, who are very good. However the new flat can get Telewest, and for the same price I get Broadband and my BT line now, I could get broadband, phone and TV (the broadband will be 750k instead of IMb, but I think that's OK, I don't download movies)

So. Telewest allegedly provide 30Mb of personal web space and 5 "blueyonder personalised email accounts", but I don't know how to transfer by existing domain name and web pages to this, if it can be done. Also does anyone know if Telewest can cope with more than one domain name, as Sandy wants one for his business. the flyingisland name has about eight months to run, and I'm sure A&A will cooperate, but I want to do this right.

Secondly, I want to connect two computers to the internet - do I need a server[1]? I have a router and a lot of ethernet cable, but no spare machine (or at least not one I'm prepared to leave on all the time. Both our machines will be running XP (with ZoneAlarm etc etc) if that makes a difference.

Any advice/offers of help?

[1] Clarification: I don't want either of us to have to leave the machine in our room on all the time. With ADSL the modem/router dealt with this, but I don't think you can get a cable modem that does. Can you? Or could I buy a Wireless solution?

I've been clearing out some papers and just found the Nominet certificate for bicon.org.uk, which appears to have expired on 7 September. It's in mistdog's name - do I need to keep it/do anything with it?

I also have a small pile of books, BiCon2002 programmes etc for a potential bi archive. If anyone wants them I need to get rid of them before I move at the end of October - who should they go to?

If anyone wants to copy this to the Bicon community, please do. I'm not a member anymore.