Good can come from bad
 

As I posted a whil ago, my hub, i thought was not working. Now after many long hours onto ntl's back telling them to get it working, they figured out that i was only recieving one IP address:mad: . I was paying for the second as well! And after being redirected millions of times, i met a nice girl, who fixed it:) . now i can enjoy xbox live and internet at the same time, good comes from bad(but it should ne good in the 1st place anyway!)

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Glad to hear it was fixed. :D

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Glad it's working again :)

And I hope they've credited/refunded you for the money you paid when it wasn't working!

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Just out of interest, is there a way I can check to see that I'm actually getting 2x IP addresses? I pay the extra fiver for it but would like to make sure.

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not on the topic, but ntl upgrading all the speeds is bloody excellent, and very good for us live gamerz

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Well if you can surf the net and use the xbox at the same time through a hub then it's working.

But you would be better off in less than 8 months by buying a router and ditching the second IP option

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=11172

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...9&postcount=11

Not so good for live gamerz as the upload speed does not appear to be increasing at all. You will not be able to send information to the net / hosting machine any quicker.

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However, if you are the hosting machine, might that be better then?

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Data can get to your machine quicker, but you still have the same pipe to flush it away. Do a search on hear for toilets and erols great analagy
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...&postcount=225
. If you cant get the positional information away to the other xboxes then hosting will still be a problem.

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:tu:


Definitely cheaper in the long run to use a cheap router, instead of the NTL Broadband & Console service - Even though the BB&Console price is going down.

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Yup. The speed increase won't help host bigger/better games in XBL, as the upload speed is staying the same.

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well, in short, if youi can play live and go on internet at once, it works. or ring ntl and ask about what you are recieving;)