bradfincham
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Right trying to sort net at uni house now,
wanted telewest top package as £35 for 10meg and free 35 sky channels,
but cant get that and ntl is bloody expensive!!
Anyone reccomend any good broadband adsl and cable providers??
problem with adsl is need a bt phone line 
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Paul_J
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woah!
That's a awesome package! 10 meg and sky!
Can you use telewest stuff on a NTL line?
Interesting you brought up this, as I was thinking about what internet we're gonna go for at our uni house. I looked through mail the other day and noticed fucking 'NTL' shit... so I assume I'm stuck with those expensive wankers.
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bradfincham
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telewest not for my area, mate in sheffiled has it and its great, they have sky sports, 10 mb connection from xmas onwards, free weekend and after 6pm calls for £45 a month, thats £11 each for them how good!!!
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Carr
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For most adsl providers other than ntl you will probably need a bt line i think. I take it you havent got a bt phone line there then?
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Paul_J
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No I'm guessing my line is NTL... but if that's cable, surely telewest will work? 
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bradfincham
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Nah telewast is only in certain areas, we have cable and adsl, just bt you have to pay over £100 just to have bloody phone line we will never use
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Nismo
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what area you going to be in?
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bradfincham
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hatfield st albans
bulldog is no use either
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bradfincham
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2+ will have to do as theres 4 people so 500k each
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Paul_J
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Nismo your mr Internet... 
I've got a student house in Reading. The house had broad band last year (apparently) - I've seen mail from NTL for the previous owners saying "Pay or you will be disconnected".
8 people will be living in this house.
What do you reckon we should do internet wise? I'm unsure what speed we need. A lot probably won't use it much, but I like to download stuff. The people who won't use it much won't want to spend top dollar, but I don't want 8 of us sharing 1mb or anything either.
What are our options? are we stuck with NTL?
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Nismo
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which exchange?
Hatfield Woodhouse
Hatfield Peverel
Hatfield Broad Oak
Hatfield
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bradfincham
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i say try telewest mate they seem the best for students plus with the sky channels etc its good value
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bradfincham
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erm in not sure, hatfield at a guess
address is 17 badger way 
al10 8ry
[Edited on 05-09-2005 by bradfincham]
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Nismo
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quote:
Originally posted by Paul_J
Nismo your mr Internet...
I've got a student house in Reading. The house had broad band last year (apparently) - I've seen mail from NTL for the previous owners saying "Pay or you will be disconnected".
8 people will be living in this house.
What do you reckon we should do internet wise? I'm unsure what speed we need. A lot probably won't use it much, but I like to download stuff. The people who won't use it much won't want to spend top dollar, but I don't want 8 of us sharing 1mb or anything either.
What are our options? are we stuck with NTL?
give me a postcode or an exchange name and ill give you your options
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Paul_J
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RG2 - 7 Christchurch Gardens
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bradfincham
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nismo whats the website your using to search
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Carr
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quote:
Originally posted by bradfincham
nismo whats the website your using to search
I would also like to know unless you are doing it through work or whatever.
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Nismo
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Brad:
Postcode: AL10 8RY Valid postcode
BT Phone Number: Telephone number not entered
Exchange Information
Exchange: HATFIELD (LNHAT)
Estimated distance from Exchange: 1.7 km
Option 2 (LLU) Status: NOT ENABLED
Option 4 (BT) Status: ENABLED
Predicted Service Availability
Option 2 (LLU) ADSL: NO SERVICE
Option 2 (LLU) SHDSL: NO SERVICE
SureStream: NO SERVICE
SMPF ADSL: NO SERVICE
BT Option 4 ADSL: 2048 kbps
From those results id say go for cable , with normal BT Wholesale broadband through any ISP you wont get faster than 2Mb.
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Nismo
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Paul need an exact postcode
im using our internal systems.
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bradfincham
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nismo your the man, so ypu think the ntl 3mb at £37.99 a month is the one to go for
as adsl needs bt line rental at £10.50 a month and then its £27.99 a month for 2mb connection
ntl doesnt need a bt phone line if im correct yes ??
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Nismo
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yeah , well if its going to be shared you would really want more than 2Mb , but you wont get any more than that with a normal BT line (with ADSL) in that area. So cable is your best option 
if you were in an LLu enabled area i could have got you on the ADSL2+ trials (24Mb) but your not
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bradfincham
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bollocks, will you let me know when thats sorted!!
Thankyou very much matey
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Nismo
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bout 2 - 5 years
no probs dude
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Dom
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ntl cable, 35 quid a month 3mb - a month or so its getting upgrading to 10mb.
tbh, telewest and ntl are pretty much similar pricing, offer the same stuff, deals differ slightly but when the years out they will probably do a deal with the merge stuff anyways.
and no ntl doesnt need a btl infact it doesnt have squat to do with bt - totally different technology as well (in theory cable is better over ADSL just more expensive).
Just need ntl to install one of their grey boxes outside and install the cable modem
what you do need is a half decent router, whether it be a wired switch router (personal choice) or wireless etc. Also i would get everyone to install Du Meter or the likes and keep an eye on bandwidth - even though ntl arnt too fussy about going over 30gb a month, as soon as you start hitting 100gb+ they will send you letters and the lark.....
edit - also visit www.cableforum.co.uk - loads of ntl techs etc good information about ntl/telewest products and services, status's etc etc
[Edited on 05-09-2005 by Dom]
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Nismo
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i see 2 users got booted off plusnets network for doing over a terabyte a month 
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