Swiftie
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Registered: 7th Jan 05
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AOL UK have announced that they are doubling the speed of thier broadband service to all thier UK customers at no extra cost. Current subscribers will have to wait upto 6 months for the upgrade to take place, whereas new customers joining after 7th February will instantly receive the double speed with the AOL Broadband Silver, Gold and Platinum packages are being upgraded. In effect, this gives new and existing AOL members on these packages up to twice the speed for the same price.
The speed upgrade will take place over a six-month period, as AOL will only be able to upgrade a certain number of people on a daily basis, hence the lead-time of six months. All new AOL Broadband Gold members on the ntl cable network will also receive a broadband service of speeds up to 1Mbps from Monday 7 February 2005. Existing AOL Broadband Gold members on the ntl cable network will be upgraded from the current speed of up to 750 Kbps to a faster connection of up to 1 Mbps as quickly as possible. AOl plan to inform all members of the upgrade once it has taken place by email. The AOL Broadband Silver service will still not support home networking.
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Ren
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Registered: 16th Oct 04
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still crap 
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KelSE2
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Registered: 12th Mar 04
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Similar offer from BT-Yahoo (e-mail received today) :
We're always looking for ways to offer BT Yahoo! Broadband customers the best possible service, and that's why we're busy upgrading your line to 2Mb. That's twice your current speed. You will be pleased to know that, as a BT Yahoo! Broadband 1Mb customer, you'll receive this upgrade first. In addition, we're reducing your price for three months, giving you even better value.
You don't have to do a thing
Rest assured, this upgrade is at no extra cost to you and it requires no extra equipment. It will happen sometime between 17th February and 9th March 2005.
Most upgrades will take place automatically - you won't need to do anything and there will be no need for an engineer to visit. On the actual day of the upgrade, you may experience a short loss of service - this should be less than 30 minutes. In the unlikely event that your line cannot support 2Mb, we'll let you know as soon as possible.
Not a penny more
We're reducing the cost of your BT Yahoo! Broadband service by £2.99 a month for three months from February or March - depending on your billing date.
You'll keep your 30GB (gigabyte) monthly usage allowance with your new 2Mb service. 30GB usage is more than enough for the vast majority of customers. For example, you can send and receive about 500 photos and watch 6 hours of video downloaded from the web each week.
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Swiftie
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Registered: 7th Jan 05
Location: Greater London
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Probably the cheapest Uncapped service. Seeming as a new user you get 512k for just £17.99. Use a ethernet modem instead of them poxy USB shit and your sorted.
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_Allan_
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Registered: 24th Mar 04
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Nice one KelSE2, just read my email from BT  , I only pay £27 for it now so another £3 off for 3 months and 2mb 
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leeshez
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Registered: 3rd May 01
Location: Great Harwood, Lancashire
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AOL a pile of poo imo my mum has it and it causes problems 
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--Dave--
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Registered: 17th Feb 04
Location: Essssseeeeex Drives: Black Supra TT
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I'm with BT but on a different plan (Openworld).
Will mine be upgraded to 2mb as well?
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_Allan_
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Registered: 24th Mar 04
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quote:
Originally posted by --Dave--
I'm with BT but on a different plan (Openworld).
Will mine be upgraded to 2mb as well?
Ring up their CS, I'm sure it will but maybe not straight away. Connect and Yahoo are seperate divisions. It's stupid the way it's run.
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--Dave--
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Registered: 17th Feb 04
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you're telling me. If they do one they should do all of them in my opinion 
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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quote:
Originally posted by Swiftie
Probably the cheapest Uncapped service. Seeming as a new user you get 512k for just £17.99. Use a ethernet modem instead of them poxy USB shit and your sorted.
"You'll keep your 30GB (gigabyte) monthly usage allowance with your new 2Mb service. " Surely thats a capped service? Id never go with aol anyway, too gimmicky and the tech support is wank!
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Mark Petty
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Registered: 26th Jul 01
Location: Bournemouth Drives: Suzuki gsf600
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Im with NTL, I rang up the other day and moaned that i only get 300k connection for the same price wanadoo pay for a 1mb connection (£17.99).
They told me I will be getting upgraded to a 1mb connection free of charge and this will take place within the next month.
I will have to wait and see, wanadoo is capped at 2gig a month though. At the moment I have an uncapped connection, hopefully it will stay like that if they upgrade me.
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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2 gig a month?! I download that in a day :S
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--Dave--
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Registered: 17th Feb 04
Location: Essssseeeeex Drives: Black Supra TT
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in that case, you have u2u 
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Swiftie
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Registered: 7th Jan 05
Location: Greater London
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quote:
Originally posted by drunkenfool
"You'll keep your 30GB (gigabyte) monthly usage allowance with your new 2Mb service. " Surely thats a capped service?
That quote is from KelSE2 who was talking about BT. 
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Mark Petty
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Registered: 26th Jul 01
Location: Bournemouth Drives: Suzuki gsf600
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quote:
Originally posted by drunkenfool
2 gig a month?! I download that in a day :S
I know there is no way i'm going with a service that has that sort of capped rate
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
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quote:
Originally posted by Swiftie
quote:
Originally posted by drunkenfool
"You'll keep your 30GB (gigabyte) monthly usage allowance with your new 2Mb service. " Surely thats a capped service?
That quote is from KelSE2 who was talking about BT.
fair enough
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Greg_M
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Registered: 2nd Sep 03
Location: Grantham, Lincolnshire
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im will aol, and i get on fine, considering you can get 256k for 17.99. it cheep as chips. the 1mb that ive got is cheep anyway
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Swiftie
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Registered: 7th Jan 05
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quote:
Originally posted by Greg_M
im will aol, and i get on fine, considering you can get 256k for 17.99. it cheep as chips. the 1mb that ive got is cheep anyway
That 256k will get regraded to 512 for nothing soon and so will all the other services provided.
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Dom
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Registered: 13th Sep 03
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quote:
Originally posted by Mark Petty
Im with NTL, I rang up the other day and moaned that i only get 300k connection for the same price wanadoo pay for a 1mb connection (£17.99).
They told me I will be getting upgraded to a 1mb connection free of charge and this will take place within the next month.
I will have to wait and see, wanadoo is capped at 2gig a month though. At the moment I have an uncapped connection, hopefully it will stay like that if they upgrade me.
aye, ntl are upgrading there connections again, but this time you have to request if you want the upgrade and CAN cost you a 25 quid admin fee of doing it. However, the new speeds have been given offical caps (you already have a very very loose cap of 1gig a day anyways).....
eitherway you can read more about it HERE
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Mark Petty
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Registered: 26th Jul 01
Location: Bournemouth Drives: Suzuki gsf600
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quote:
Originally posted by Dom
quote:
Originally posted by Mark Petty
Im with NTL, I rang up the other day and moaned that i only get 300k connection for the same price wanadoo pay for a 1mb connection (£17.99).
They told me I will be getting upgraded to a 1mb connection free of charge and this will take place within the next month.
I will have to wait and see, wanadoo is capped at 2gig a month though. At the moment I have an uncapped connection, hopefully it will stay like that if they upgrade me.
aye, ntl are upgrading there connections again, but this time you have to request if you want the upgrade and CAN cost you a 25 quid admin fee of doing it. However, the new speeds have been given offical caps (you already have a very very loose cap of 1gig a day anyways).....
eitherway you can read more about it HERE
cheers for that, hopefully it will happen soon
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Dom
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Registered: 13th Sep 03
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quote:
Originally posted by Mark Petty
quote:
Originally posted by Dom
quote:
Originally posted by Mark Petty
Im with NTL, I rang up the other day and moaned that i only get 300k connection for the same price wanadoo pay for a 1mb connection (£17.99).
They told me I will be getting upgraded to a 1mb connection free of charge and this will take place within the next month.
I will have to wait and see, wanadoo is capped at 2gig a month though. At the moment I have an uncapped connection, hopefully it will stay like that if they upgrade me.
aye, ntl are upgrading there connections again, but this time you have to request if you want the upgrade and CAN cost you a 25 quid admin fee of doing it. However, the new speeds have been given offical caps (you already have a very very loose cap of 1gig a day anyways).....
eitherway you can read more about it HERE
cheers for that, hopefully it will happen soon
i wouldnt count on it mate it was suppose to happen last month, but they've only just thought about rolling it out to the different areas. I believe Glasgow and somewhere else up there has just started to upgrade it - so i can see it being atleast 2months+ before it reaches around here and down south 
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Greg_M
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Registered: 2nd Sep 03
Location: Grantham, Lincolnshire
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quote:
Originally posted by Swiftie
quote:
Originally posted by Greg_M
im will aol, and i get on fine, considering you can get 256k for 17.99. it cheep as chips. the 1mb that ive got is cheep anyway
That 256k will get regraded to 512 for nothing soon and so will all the other services provided.
i have 1mb
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Stone Cold Rattlesnake
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Registered: 12th Jun 02
Location: London .................. Drives: Astra IV
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i got AOL 2mb
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Corsa-Nutter
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Registered: 27th Sep 04
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i have aol and have no problems with it i just got email a few days ago saying that i will be getting 1mb soon
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Robbo
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Registered: 6th Aug 02
Location: London
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Fk all those... PIPEX baby
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