NTL and changing providers

cid_2

Hi folks - I need a bit of help regarding broadband packages if anyone has a sec.

At the minute I have NTL's 750MB package for £24.99 a month, alongside one of their cable TV packages and the NTL phone connection that I think I have to have. NTL are upgrading the speed to 2MB soon I've heard, for the same price.

I was wondering if there was any way I could continue to get my TV supplied by NTL, but switch broadband provider so that overall it works out cheaper (with the speed at at least 2MB). The problem as I see it is that you have to have the NTL phone line to get the cable TV from them, but you need for the most part a BT phone connection to get broadband from another company.

Is it feasible to have two phone lines or would that cost way too much?

The obvious question is: why do I want my TV to come from NTL so badly? The answer is the cause of all the bother - we can't get planning permission to have a satellite dish on the building, so cable is the only way to get the shockingly bad TV programmes that my other half likes beamed into her head of an evening.

Does anyone have any special combinations of companies they use to cheapen and/or speed up their broadband?

Thanks for any help in advance,
cid.

escapee

When the bandwith goes up, i think around mid march, why not just downgrade to the 300k > 1mb internet access for £17.99? 1mb is plenty enough and more for the normal internet user, that way you are saving £7 and i doubt you will get anything cheaper using bts phonelines. Another possibility is to speak to ntls disconnections dept because if you are considering leaving their services they in most cases cut you a good deal to stay an existing customer. They did me a good offer recently and my friend saved £5 a month on his internet charges too! Hope this helps.

escapee

cid_2

That's not a bad idea, I might do both as it goes. Thanks!

jmoose

you could use AOL, they use the NTL network so need to mess around with telephone companies and are they currently upgrading aswell but with no caps

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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escapee

jmoose wrote:

you could use AOL, they use the NTL network so need to mess around with telephone companies and are they currently upgrading aswell but with no caps




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True but their 1mb will cost £25 the same as cid is paying now and cid specifically said they want to cut their internet bill, the caps for people not downloading a lot of 'specific' content are ample for the average internet user.

escapee