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Hello

I've just today moved into my new house in Bath. I am using the existing internet service set up by the previous inhabitants, a Virgin media service. I can log-on fine, and use the internet (obviously), but I am told it has not yet validated me, and i am a bit worried and confused how to do this. Can somebody help me with this matter please?

Yours Faithfully

David

What is saying it hasn't validated you?

a little pop-up baloon in the corner

It means your safe to download kiddie porn, go for it.

wahooo!

Are you sure its a virgin media balloon? It maybe spyware. can you take a screen shot of said balloon?

Not sure how Virgin Media could push a pop up balloon like that to your computer.

Is it coming from windows or your browser?

Sure its not windows saying you haven't validated it yet?

yeah its windows saying it

Sounds like the windows validation balloon possibly. Have you a dodgy copy of your OS, or have you done a windows update recently.

You can uninstall it via the control panel.

I've done nothing to my OS for 3 years

So what does the balloon actually say?

[url width=800 height=500]http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m290/abbottd/baloooon.jpg[/url]

Not sure why i took a print screen of paint, but you get the jist

That message is for your wireless LAN.

Might mean the settings are wrong, or security isn't set at the highest level. Something like that.

Are you using a new router? Is it set up correctly?

I don't know :( Literally moved in today, have no idea

I think the old housemates set it up when they moved in, about 5 months ago

Fixed it now :)

Unticked the "Enable IEEE802.1x to the availiable network" and it worked :)

I know your address now. I'm going to send a big man round to bum you.

Not again

I was really hoping I was going to see some porn tabs along the bottom. You disappoint me Dave

Gonna have a house warming Dave? We all know where to book the cab to  :)

Haha, I was actually planning to drop in a bunch of innapropriate tabs and references next time i had to take a legitimate screenshot, to lighten the mood. Damn, it's not going to be as funny now :(

4d, everyones welcome to my house. Whether i let them in is another matter. This is a private forum anyway isn't it? No enemys in here

Hi again

Two of us have laptops, one a mac, connected to the internet. A third though is trying on her macbook and although it is connecting to the network, it won't let her on the internet.

Any ideas?

Have you ensured the network connections are exactly the same on both the Macs?

Are they all set to DHCP for the IP address ("Configure IPv4" on a Mac), or set manually to different IP addresses?

No ideas what any of that means.

Went offline for a bit and mr housemate who knows what he's doing sorted it out

Does the 'it' refer to the Internet problem or your female housemate?