Re: [Merged] ntl "cap"-*ALL* Discussion In Here Please.
 

Screw AOL then :p

(unless AOL cable is any different)

Re: [Merged] ntl "cap"-*ALL* Discussion In Here Please.
 

This may be of some use i have personally set up 2 comps to run on aol with out ther horrid software

http://www.the-scream.co.uk/forums/t12323.html?

Re: [Merged] ntl "cap"-*ALL* Discussion In Here Please.
 

I think a few are realising the amount you can download is more important then the burst speed, but I think Chris is right about AOL it can mess you up if you like to have a home network sharing the internet. Diemydarling I agree with as well, the reason people didnt carry out threats last time is because the cap turned out to be a guideline, although we don't know yet 100%, indications from people make me expect this to be a enforced cap. I was going to leave in may for certian but now ntl's business lite package has become a possible option for me. I am still to decide.

Re: [Merged] ntl "cap"-*ALL* Discussion In Here Please.
 

I originally posted this in another thread, i thought it was this one regarding the business lite package. i got this form NTL business team who were surprisingly fast, and polite and i received an instant call abck after i emailed them.

Single user options for 3 or under computers
>
> Rental 1.5M £34.99 per month
> Rental 750K £24.99 per month
>
> Install charge £90.00
>
> Fixed Ip addressing is a one off charge of £10.00 for up to 5.
>
> All options provide:
>
> * · Faster email & internet access (30 times faster with 1meg than a
> dial up connection)
> * · Fixed monthly cost no matter how long you stay on line
> * · Free registration of a .co.uk domain name of your choice (subject
> to availability)
> * · 60 Mgs of web space for you to host your own website
> * · 10 email addresses for you & your staff
> * · 24-hr technical support helpline
> * · Manage your account online
> * · Lower contention ratio than many other suppliers
>
> INSTALLATION OF UPTO 8 TELEPHONE LINES CAN BE INCLUDED AS PART OF PACKAGE
> OFFER.
>
> Line rental £13.00 per month per line.
>
> If you have any queries or wish to place an order please return an email

Re: NTL cap limit
 

Late reply but i only recently signed up, my friend uses that isp he should know. and its 10MB/10MB not 10Mb/8Mb you get a choice of 10Mb/1 or 10/10 and even though their 100Mb connection has a 180GB its still alot better then ntl's 40Gb monthly. who somehow think 40GB is enough for a whole months useage. i wonder how a country like sweden can offer all this yet England cant offer much. people in sweden are very lucky. i wish i lived there 10Mb/10MB for 20 Euro a month. i guess ukonlines 8MB will have to do . why cant uk pay for subsidised fibre england is more rich then sweden and yet they did it years ago. england should hurry up and catch up :angel:

Re: [Merged] ntl "cap"-*ALL* Discussion In Here Please.
 

You can set up AOL without their software now. It was the thing that put me off moving, even when ntl were going through a rough time with email etc,but there's many web pages now showing you how to do it. Do a search on google.

Re: [Merged] ntl "cap"-*ALL* Discussion In Here Please.
 

If I signed up with AOL cable would I get the exact same connection I have now? Or would there be some kind of routing through AOL's networks? I don't want to end up getting high pings or slow downloads...

Re: NTL cap limit
 

Umm nope if you re-read what I said the 10/8 comment was made in a different sentence, I then began to talk about bbb.se as the fastest ISP I could see in Sweden.

Think you missed the post I was replying to, supplies that all important context, and the punctuation I used in my reply.

Would you like to pay extra tax for this subsidised fibre? 95%+ of the UK wouldn't. Personally I don't appreciate the insane tax burden I have now without the Govt finding another excuse to tax the @rse off me (1p for bb, 10p for whatever else we have in mind) and considering their appauling wasting of money so far on anything bb related I wouldn't trust them anyway.

EDIT: AOL over ntl uses the ntl network purely as a conduit to AOL's network, so yes you use AOL's network extensively.

Re: NTL cap limit
 

actually Sweden is poorer than the UK...

link

which means by definition England is not richer than Sweden ;)

Re: [Merged] ntl "cap"-*ALL* Discussion In Here Please.
 

hell yes i would pay extra tax's its well worth it to get a decent net connection rather then crappy speeds, would be money well spent. 20 Euro for 10Mb/10MB cant be a bad thing unmeterd. sdsl is good shame the prices for 2Mb sdsl is over £300 a month :erm:

Re: [Merged] ntl "cap"-*ALL* Discussion In Here Please.
 

There's an interesting article on wired about bittorrent, which then goes onto "peercasting" which is a way of broadcasting legit TV shows over the internet. It's things like this that really should have us worried about usage caps.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1...ittorrent.html

Re: [Merged] ntl "cap"-*ALL* Discussion In Here Please.
 

The last Cap when it first came in, I got rid of Tv Box thing + all channel and switched phone from NTL to BT. I kept Cable modem and the theory was if I get "told off" for using my connection to much, i would ditch that too. So basically it may not seem like many left which they probably never as nothing got enfoced but if they bring in a hard cap (which they will i think) then expect a lot more to leave...Basically people wont leave until something happens...which is a fair point

Re: [Merged] *ALL* ntl Cap Discussion In Here Please.
 

I would also pay extra tax, it benfits those on low incomes who cant afford decent internet, and also benefits our whole infrastructure as a whole.
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Good point, a friend told me a major isp in norway introduced a cap, but they lost so much of their userbase their creditors threatened to cancel their credit agreement due to their weakened position so they had to abandon the caps.

Re: [Merged] *ALL* ntl Cap Discussion In Here Please.
 

Something a lot of people don't seem to be considering is whether there's actually anything worth downloading from other ISPs if you use the newsgroups like I do.

A girl I work with went with BT Yahoo (can't get NTL where she lives) after I showed her how you downloaded stuff from newsgroups a lot more anonymously than you do elsewhere. Trouble was that after she signed a 12 month contract she found their servers contained zilch!

For all the moaning we do about NTL their newsgroup servers are good in comparison to other ISPs I know of.

The thing that bugs me is the £25 upgrade fee for current users. So they don't value us as much as new customers?!!:mad:

Re: [Merged] *ALL* ntl Cap Discussion In Here Please.
 

It's to entice new customers rather than reward them because they value them more :geez: