If nobody knows Lee try phoning AOL 0800 376 4406 and come back and tell everyone what they say :)

Ask them if they've got a data download cap on their service too mate.

I may be wrong but I belive it is available in Ex C&W areas (but don't take that as Gospel)

If it is available you will get a splitter put on your CATV feed and a standalone modem installed.

Silly queston - but what is a CATV feed?

Does it come in on the Set Top Box, or a standard (NTL) phone socket?

thanks

Lee:shrug:

The cable feed into the back of your STB (set top box)

You could of course save money and get rid of the STB

From looking at the details, I think AOL are working in the same style as their ADSL, i.e. you pay for the cable modem and tap (splits the tv/internet signals) those are then yours to keep vs renting from NTL

Also, the emails are more reliable on AOL than NTL.

:confused: huh!

Thanks for that Grum, a simple error - what I meant to say is emails are more reliable on AOL than NTL.

Any ISP is more reliable on e-mail than NTL:D

so i gathered had to read it a few times though to make sure i wasn't going mad :eek: :spin:

So hands up whos had AOL BB inst via cable network!!! :)

To be honest it would not be worth it,why bother with all the same things going wrong again.

I have just to wait for adsl extending or the local power company offering powerline.

It will not be long before cable is a bit like a 56k modem in the speed and download stakes

So i take it you think that AOL have wasted £83 million that they gave to ntl for the 4 year deal?

Me wonders what happened to freeserve doing the same :shrug:

grum1978 saidI know that was aimed elsewhere, but for what it's worth....
"I think so"

I just can't see that many customers signing up for it, surely any AOL customer with no ADSL but with ntl available in their area would allready be signed up.

I can see them gaining people who didn't like ntl and did not realise it was via ntl's network. I guess there are people like that out there.

I also guess that ntl people will say "Our marketing people have done all the figures" but my answer would be "remember how good the figures were for free dial-up"
ntl's marketing people based their figures on large numbers of
new off-net customers when they launched that product, instead they gained loads of on-net customers and had to install lots of second lines, that they were offering cheaply.
On top of this they had to carry out massive upgrades to the Telco network at local ring level to keep up with demand. The network techs were rubbing their hands at all the night work involved in the project.

ntl actually lost huge amounts of money on that venture;)

th'engineer saidWe are going to fall out:D