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"Broadband, had enough of NTL, what are the alternatives (without a BT line)"

(Don't mean to rub it in Cookie)

NTL BB is getting worse by the week, off since yesterday lunchtime, they don't know when it should be fixed but it may be tonight.

I have NTL cable TV and phone service also, I will be keeping these but am thinking of swapping Broadband providers but Tiscali and the like need a BT line, is there anything I can do without a BT line that won't cost me a fortune ? (I'm not that clued up on BB and lines by the way as you may have guessed !)

My postcode is RM3 if it makes a difference.

Thanks

Valentino Rossi wrote:
> Glad to see I'm not alone, I am the only one in our street of 44
> houses with NTL BB, last time the Engineer came (last month) he said
> the "signal" or whatever it is was so weak he was suprised
> we got any connection at all, I use a free program I downloaded from
> download.com which says I get a steady 31kbs a second which is good
> for a guaranteed minimum 128k line.


And you're complaining? WHY? I used to get 20.

Can't find it on download.com now, I got it 12 months ago, will post bit more info when I get home tonight.

What's that program? Wouldn't mind trying it meself...

Glad to see I'm not alone, I am the only one in our street of 44 houses with NTL BB, last time the Engineer came (last month) he said the "signal" or whatever it is was so weak he was suprised we got any connection at all, I use a free program I downloaded from download.com which says I get a steady 31kbs a second which is good for a guaranteed minimum 128k line.

Miserableman wrote:
> Ph1ll1p

whoops :O)

My NTL connection drops 5 times a day at the barest minimum. Ph1ll1p is lucky enough to live in an area where NTL isn't congestion central. The rest of us, meanwhile, have to suffer their crap service.

I find I have to "power off" my NTL box for 30 seconds at least once a week to "clear the line or whatever", last night I could download off Kazaa at 0.05kb a second, 44 hours for a normal MP3 file :)

Prehaps I will stick with NTL for now .....

Thanks anyway

a coplete muppet

Wohoo!

Miserableman wrote:
> Note that yesterdays problems were not NTL - a transcontinental cable
> went down causing mayhem with the UK network. Not that I'm trying to
> defend NTL or anything...

That explains why I couldn't get any sites to load last night.

The only option you'll have is AOL broadband which runs though NTL lines, but you've gotta be a coplete muppet to go anywhere near AOL.

NTL is fine for me. It's gone down about twice in a year which is fine really. Nothing persistant.

Valentino Rossi wrote:
> (Don't mean to rub it in Cookie)

:D