GreenNet Broadband

Ethical home & organisational broadband, ADSL up to 8Mbps & 20Mbps, unlimited bandwidth, fixed IP, and GreenNet’s excellent support team ensuring you’re online all of the time.

What are the benefits of having a dedicated IP address'?

What are the benefits of having a dedicated (also called ‘fixed’ or ‘static’) IP as opposed to a shared IP address when getting a broadband connection? There are plenty of advantages and here we outline a few.

Broadband availability/speed checker in your area

There are numerous broadband providers that offer connections using BTs network infrastructure, and ALL of these providers claim to offer ‘UP TO 8 MEG Broadband’.

Broadband hardware

To get connected up to GreenNet Broadband, you will need an ADSL modem as well as microfilters for each BT socket on the line that has equipment plugged into it.

green dot partnership scheme

green dot is a new affinity scheme from GreenNet designed to promote ethical connectivity for home and business users. Building on our long history of providing ethical email and web services, green dot is open to all of our members interested in alternative approaches to raising funds and awareness.

When you partner with GreenNet using green dot, you get to offer your supporters internet access and a chunk of your supporters’ broadband bill goes straight to you. green dot broadband comes with all the usual high speed, specs and unrivaled support – why support the big corporations when you can surf and support with green dot!

email us at: greendot@gn.apc.org to find out more.

GreenNet Remote Support Connection

Free GreenNet User Support & Training for members

This page is for GreenNet users who need a little extra help from the GreenNet Support team to tackle their computing troubles via a secure remote connection. We may also know a friendly consultant in your area who can visit, but this way can be very quick indeed. This is part of our continuing commitment to solve issues related to your GreenNet service quickly and efficiently and take the pressure off you.

28 May 09 UK broadband 'notspots' revealed

About three million homes in the UK have broadband speeds of less than two megabits per second (2Mbps) according to research commissioned by the BBC. The government has promised to provide all homes in the UK with speeds of at least 2Mbps by 2012.

Network news and actions

19 Nov 09 Sh!t Matters

– especially on World Toilet Day. CLTS is using the opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of sustainable and safe sanitation systems around the world.

17 Nov 09 Delays show fragility of Nigeria's oil delta amnesty

YENEGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigeria has yet to begin the process of educating and reintegrating thousands of former militants in the oil-producing Niger Delta, prompting some to question their decision to lay down arms for clemency.

14 Oct 09 Twitter can't be gagged: online outcry over Guardian/Trafigura order

Trafigura, a London-based oil trader connected with dumping toxic waste in Ivory Coast in 2006, was the most used word on micro-blogging site Twitter this morning.

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