Ianhaycox

It does sound like an issue with the Freebox. I use a Livebox, and had to setup forwarding within the router for my torrents to work. I also had to configure my torrent client to use a non-default port number. I suspected that the default port may have been 'shaped' or blocked. For the port fowarding I went to the config pages on the Livebox by entering http://192.168.1.1/ into my browser and logged into the admin pages. It did say that I should have a fixed IP address but I noticed I always! get allocated the same IP address so I just used that. Configured the port selected in the torrent client to forward to my IP address for both tcp and udp. Good luck.

I used thinned down varnish to seal, but someone did suggest using wallpaper paste if you are bothered about a breathable sealant.

It depends how you connect to the Internet, but if on ADSL you could use a hardware firewall that is built into most broadband routers. However if your considering spending money on hardware it might be a better investment to just buy a new PC and use supported OS'es and apps etc. The other option, which is a bit more radical, is to keep the old hardware and replace W98 with Linux, e.g. <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a>, it's free and comes with all the apps you'll need and is much more secure on the Internet.

You may find the following helpful, http://radio.weblogs.com/0136203/2006/06/15.html#a422

If you have DNSBL problems would smtp.com be of any use to you ? Not tried it myself.

Are you connecting the PC to the Livebox with a USB cable ?  If so (this is a wild guess) it is possible that the PC doesn't support USB 2.0 which I believe is required for the Livebox. If it's Windows XP on recent hardware then ignore this, but an older version of Windows could have this problem. Just a thought.

[quote user="Hegs"]Can't read Private messages. None of the links on that line (Active, Unanswered) etc are clickable, nothing happens when you hover over them. IE works just fine.  [/quote] As a workaround in Firefox for the broken links try, View->Page Style>No Style  This makes the links clickable, so then select the required link and restore the style with View->Page Style>Basic Page Style BTW running the CSS through the WC3 validator, http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/, reveals quite a few errors.

I believe Wanadoo's solution to the problem of having their mail servers blacklisted is just to keep changing the IP addresses of thier SMTP servers. This would explain way mail is delivered sporadically. It just depends which Wanadoo SMTP server (I think they have about 10) sends the mail and if it's been blacklisted yet. Obviously this is no way to run an ISP, but as mentioned in this thread Wanadoo don't want to listen and blame everyone else.

I assume that the Active, Unanswered, Not Read, ... at the top of the Forum Index should be links. For me they are not clickable. Yes I am one of the awkard Firefox users.

I found this recipe works for me, http://radio.weblogs.com/0136203/2005/02/Heinz-Baked-Beans.html

I use www.micronicos.com and have done for over 5 years. They are no where near the cheapest but there are no bandwidth restrictions, fantastic server uptime and any support issues I've ever had have been resolved within 24hrs. Because mine are business websites I prefer to pay the extra. You can go to joker.com and register a name for just 10€ a year and point (redirect) to your 'free' webspace as Ian suggests. For a personal website this is fine but for a business website I would have to disagree with Ian. Google does not like redirects and I believe you will find it very difficult to get a good ranking using this method. For business you should have dedicated paid for webspace with the extra controls and features you may want later. As an example the Wanadoo free web space went through a major upgrade earlier this year and prevented any changes for nearly 2 months with access very flakey at times. Thats fine for a personal site or a blog but most probably not if the website is important to your business. You get what you pay for (mostly)

It is very confusing. For my websites I use a hosting company in the UK but use Wanadoo in France as my ISP. The hosting company provides an FTP username/password allowing one to upload files to the website regardless of the ISP (i.e. where I am in the world on, if on dial-up, ADSL, cyber cafe etc.) The hosting company receives all my mail then it gets forwarded to my current ISP for collection via a mail client. For cheaper 'packages' (and 'free hosting') where the ISP and the hosting company are usually the same there are often restrictions to ensure you use their dial-up number to upload files. That's how they make their money. From the phone calls. Separating the hosting and ISP gives you more flexibility but is slighty dearer and more complicated.

This isn't comprehensive but may serve as a memory jogger, http://www.frenchmoves.co.uk/prepare.html

The forums seem to be displaying in a basic text format. Looks like the stylesheet http://forums.livingfrance.com/skins/livingfrance/style.css is 'corrupt'.

I have pressed the buttons but nothing happened. I haven't got any appliances on off-peak power so I doubt pressing the buttons would tell me much. I'm reluctant to open it up and poke about with a multimeter as we are on 3-phase, and I don't fancy getting thrown across the living room. Any other suggestions ?