Registered: May 2001
Location: Hinckley, Leicestershire
NTL Broadband any good??
ordering Broadband on NTL the £15 jobbie think its the 128kb/s one not sure but is it any good dont want to be buying a really crap service or is BT Broadband better?
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Apr-29-2002 18:47
OLDoMiNiON
tranceaddict
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Salford, England
Yeh NTL is better than bt by a long shot!
i dunno what 128 is like (probably fairly slow), but i have the 512 version (£25 p/m)and it is great! the thing that makes it much better than bt is that ntl don't throttle your bandwidth, and that cable (ntl broadband) has a LOT less packet loss than DSL (bt)
this means that if you want to do online gaming, then you are better off going with ntl otherwise your ping may not be any better than with a 56k modem (with bt)!!
NTL are a better company in my opinion
Chris
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Apr-29-2002 19:25
G K Murray
Likes old skool trance
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: A smog free place near Middlesbrough
I've had no problems with it!!
Apr-29-2002 20:09
KilldaDJ
birth.school.trance.death
Registered: Sep 2001
Location: tranceaddict wants to know your location
bugger, not available where i live
and andover has it, and i recently moved from there!
my dad has the 512k ntl cable, when imm using it i get download speeds of around 60 kb/s and upload of 15 kb/s. As OLDoMiNiON says pings are mega good and ive played online games and had no trouble with conection's etc
Jon
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Apr-29-2002 22:46
OLDoMiNiON
tranceaddict
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Salford, England
yeh - speeds should be a max. average of 64KB/s download, and 16KB/s up!
With the 512 service i have enjoyed pings of under 50ms )
but with bt i have heard stories of people getting in the 2-3 hundreds
this is because of high packet loss, due to dsl using copper wire as a medium, rather than an rj-45 network cable.
..Conclusion: go for NTL
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Apr-29-2002 22:54
wozza
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: May 2001
Location: Hinckley, Leicestershire
i was told that the 128kpbs one was ISDN and is that crap or what??
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Apr-30-2002 16:37
Coup
Retired
Registered: May 2001
Location: England, UK
warren u arse, ben told me u ordered this and imo u dont really no what uve ordered do you? 128k = ISDN, ISDN was the internet connection one up from the one you have at the moment, so you will get downloads of around 6-9KB/sec (currently 2-5KB/sec) and uploads of about the same. Cable broadband, 512K, is 60-70KB/sec and 15KB/sec uploads. Which one did u mean to order? the really fast one or the one twice as fast as the one u have now?
Apr-30-2002 16:50
wozza
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: May 2001
Location: Hinckley, Leicestershire
all i knwo is that my father ordered the 128kpbs one and its the one thats twice as fast as the one i am currewntly on.
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Apr-30-2002 16:57
Ste
Planet Zogg Addict
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Outer Dementia
ntl cable is goooood
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Registered: Dec 2001
Location: A smog free place near Middlesbrough
quote:
Originally posted by DuMonde TrAnCeR
ntl cable is goooood
Very good!
Imagine going back to 56K, i'd rather shit the bed!!
May-01-2002 15:14
sykadelik
INSTRUMENTALIST
Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Bristol
NTL is a very good service, I am online at the moment with them and have no trouble and have had no problems previously. They know wot they are doing compared to the monkey muppets that are BT!
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