If they are capped, just means they reach their cap sooner! If it makes you feel better, your are all paying for 2Meg connections, but some happen to be faster!Originally Posted by cougarslam
If they are capped, just means they reach their cap sooner! If it makes you feel better, your are all paying for 2Meg connections, but some happen to be faster!Originally Posted by cougarslam
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My broadband speed - 750 Meganibbles/minute
Did you at any point call to report a fault? A heavily pixellated picture usually indicates something wrong locally as it is the Box being unable to compensate for all the errors in the RF signal it is seeing, which would also tie up with the modem going slow and randomly disconnecting. Usually reasonably easy to fix too....Originally Posted by Spud1
Beer is life, life is good!
Yup reported the faults many times..to no avail.
I was guessing it was to do with the bandwidth, since I guess the internet and TV both share the same line..and if we were using alot of net bandwidth and 3 boxes at once...which is unacceptable really. Ofc that might not have been it, but we had reported the faults anyway - standard replies were 'reboot the box', 'reboot the modem', 'we'll arrange an engineer..*click* phone dies' etc
I have done my stint in IT support and I know rebooting fixes 90% of problems, but not when you have done it a thousand times with no help...
It's just not woth the stress; I don't rate cable as a technology anymore anyway, and NTL just compounds the problem.
Hence why its sky+bt for this year..
Sounds like you have been pretty well fobbed off mate, sorry to hear it.
Although Box and Modem share the same cable, the TV channels are on different frequencies to the MCNS (Data channel) Which is why the problem you had with all services led me to the conclusion that there could be a problem local to you. One bad F connector could have been the cause of all your woes! But, as you couldnt get anyone out to fix it, I can see why you are anti NTL mate,
Beer is life, life is good!
Anyone apart from me considering that they won't be in their student house over the summer... so with a 12 month contract (like NTL, this Eclipse deal people are talking about & many others) could mean you're paying for internet you're not going to use, or pay a disconnection charge of about £50?
I decided to draw up a table of the best deals I can find, and do a total cost of ownership over 9 months:
http://www.withayam.com/articles/broadbandadvice (and at the bottom of the page)
May be of some use.
Steve
Last edited by steve.withayam; 08-09-2006 at 10:33 AM.
But NTL doesn't cost £30 a month for internet
No it doesn't. I'll show you how i got the effective monthly charge of £29.15 for a customer staying for 9 months.
NTL Offer: First 3 months @ £12.49, the rest at £24.99 with a 12 month contract.
Over 9 months the total monthly outgoings will therefore be: (3x12.49) + (9x24.99)
This cost spread out over 9 months is: 262.38 / 9 = £29.15
So this figure is the total cost of ownership if you will only use 9 months of it. Sorry for the confusion! I was hoping seeing the costs this way would show the actual value for money on a 9 month basis.
Steve
No it doesn't. I'll show you how i got the effective monthly charge of £29.15 for a customer staying for 9 months.
NTL Offer: First 3 months @ £12.49, the rest at £24.99 with a 12 month contract.
Over 9 months the total monthly outgoings will therefore be: (3x12.49) + (9x24.99)
This cost spread out over 9 months is: 262.38 / 9 = £29.15
So this figure is the total cost of ownership if you will only use 9 months of it. Sorry for the confusion! I was hoping seeing the costs this way would show the actual value for money on a 9 month basis.
Steve
Your list has bulldog LLU, get there 24mb!!! Friend on their 8mb and his is great, better than my ADSL MAX..
What about "freedom2surf"
ADSL, £19.99 month, 9mb/sec, 3month contract, 20gb cap, with unmetered access between 1am and 6am.
Sounds plausably cheap, its 3month contract which is good, the cap seams reasonable, and the unmetered out-of-hours thing seams good too, as we're prolly all be awake then anyway!
- But doesnt anyone have any knowlage of how relaiable it is?
http://www.f2s.net/adsl/homeuser.php?is=m1hbb#home
Daniel
My problem with ADSL is it requires a landline, so thats an extra £11 a month on something i wouldnt be happy about having, i can just see all the girls fighting over the phone, and the bills!
Back when I was at uni this was the most annoying aspect of having the internet, I lived with three lads so we never actually used the phone and it cost £10.50 a month just to be able to pay £25 for the internet.
What annoyed me even more was that NTL rolled out in the area I was living and missed three streets out, and ours was one of them, even back then (this was when broadband internet on a mass scale was brand new - about 4/5 years ago) NTL was cheaper and more flexible.
As for your situation, I would currently choose AOL mainly because it is truely unlimited and in a shared house the last thing you want is having to work out who left bittorrent open when you went out on the p*ss. The speeds arent great in the cheaper price range (Silver 14.99, etc..) but slow and steady sometimes is best.
How about getting sky? for £25 a month you get a basic tv package, 16mb unlimited broadband with free installation and wireless router
I read somewhere the lead time on sky broadband is upto 3 months in areas where they have LLU'ed, I wouldnt like to imagine the lead time in areas they havent. I cant tesitfy for the three months personally but I have a friend who placed a order at the end of july (straight after the announcement), his exchange went LLU live on the 1st August and he still hasnt got broadband on his BT line.
He is the kind of friend you love to hate though so I dont really care that much.
I wouldnt imagine a three month wait would be cool with a bunch of student who only live there for nine.
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