One for Shorty and others.

botheredbothered Manchester UK
edited November 2004 in Science & Tech
You'll like this.
I was at a fireworks display tonight, talking to an NTL customer service guy. He told me that in the first quarter 2005 they will be upgrading the 1.5Meg service to 3Meg at no extra cost, apart from a £25 setup fee. This is a nationwide deal though it will be phased in across the country. I think the other BBs will go up as well and 1meg will be the lowest, He also said to go for the seperate cable modem as the Samsung box's give them a lot of returns.
Good ol' NTL, never said a bad word against them myself.

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    Welcome to civilized broadband packages. ;D
  • floppybootstompfloppybootstomp Greenwich New
    edited November 2004
    I'm with Zen, BB, BT Phone line. Now, if only NTL would lay cable in my area.... and I'm in London as well :confused:

    Currently 500 down, 256 up, I hope Zen do something about increasing bandwidth.

    Other than that though, no complaints.
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    That's so sweet! About time as well :D:D

    Nice find Bothered, that's not public information yet ;D

    Short-Media exclusive!
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    Too bad for you guys that you had to wait this long. Turns out SBC here is starting to run fiber for competitive cable prices, unfortunately, not in our area yet though :mad:
  • CryptoCrypto W.Sussex UK Member
    edited November 2004
    Looking ahead to the new NTL options, the service that I will get automatically is 1Mb with a 5GB monthly cap.

    At the moment I have three PCs networked through a router, with regular use through at least two of them.

    Can anybody recommend a bandwidth monitor that looks seperately at each PC?
    It might help me to decide if I need to upgrade to the 2Mb with 30GB monthly cap.

    Cheers

    Crypto :D
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited November 2004
    This was announced a few days ago & I don't think its as good a deal as it first seems, at least not for people who download & upload alot of data.

    The reason being is that there is much speculation that the caps will be hard caps rather than the soft ones in place now. Fo a user like me if I go on the 3mb option, I'm restricted to 40g/month and I think I will get close to blowing that every month. Also why does it cost £25 to upgrade??? No extra hardware is needed so I think thats a rip off too. Personally I think I'll stay on the tariff I'm on now for the time being i.e. 1.5mb line, not capped in reality, £37.99pm

    Anyways you can get the info here

    NTL Announcement

    Also if you are on NTL I think you'll find this website very useful

    Chetnet.co.uk

    Regards

    Jim
  • floppybootstompfloppybootstomp Greenwich New
    edited November 2004
    Just by of mentioning, I've just paid my monthly invoice to Zen.co.uk and noticed price had been reduced from £28.00 to £25.00. That was a bit good :)
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited November 2004
    40Gb a month would do me fine, I doubt I ever get near that. I believe it's capped now, though never inforced, if it was I'd remind them it wasn't capped when I started with them and have signed nothing to say it is since.
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited November 2004
    Yeah I originally thought that 40gb/month would be fine for me too but as I share my connection, to help spread the cost, with two other users I found that i'm actually going over 40gb/month most months. :(

    If they decide to make it a soft cap, i.e. a warning when just over the limit, rather than cutting your service or chaging you extra then I'd definitely switch. I still object to the £25 admin fee though.

    I've also noticed a degradation in service over the last month or two. Last weekend my max download speed was only 20kb/s instead of the usual 180kb/s and my ping rate when gaming suddenly jumped to unacceptable levels. This is all rather odd cos the last 12 months have been absolutley trouble free.

    Either way it'll be interesting to see how this pans out and its good to see that speeds are finally being increased in this country.
  • CyrixInsteadCyrixInstead Stoke-on-Trent, England Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    Well, looks like we'll all have to go to AOL with their uncapped broadband service ;D

    So do I have to pay extra for this upgrade or what? I'm currently on the 800-odd K package so 2Mb would be excellent.

    ~Cyrix
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited November 2004
    CyrixInstead wrote:
    Well, looks like we'll all have to go to AOL with their uncapped broadband service ;D

    So do I have to pay extra for this upgrade or what? I'm currently on the 800-odd K package so 2Mb would be excellent.

    ~Cyrix

    Yes you'll have to pay a one off £25 admin fee to change service level. :(
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