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Mauldor · 28-01-2004, 19:47

Not so much work Paul - just emailing timesheets to my client and awaiting auth copies back - noramlly everything is done though post - this is why i had to switch to a service for email which had some sort of backup for problems.

I did try some time back to get the Business NTL Cable line but was told i was not a business even though im self employed. I dont expect by the way for ADSL to be any better - im sure there is a few out there who have had it / got it and hate it even more than Cable for example.

Since Ive had cable Ive been fairly trouble free for the best part of 4 years -its only of late (probabaly overloaded UBR's maybe) that the Quality is slipping downhill and ADSL is starting now to look a little bit more of a option.

Ive already voted with my Wallet on the rest of the NTL service - I reverted back to SKY and BT as it goes some time back and from experience had no problems at all since with the service on that front.

To me ADSL is getting faster / cheaper - I wanted for exmaple a 2mbit line / 256 Upload or another soloution which I thought was a good idea was what Bulldog are doing - Off Peak you get a lot faster speeds - as your sharing the business Bandwidth which im guessing goes unused off - peak. This is only available in Major towns as far as I can see though - so no chance for it to come to my part of the world.

As I say though - problem is sorted for now - I have a Email Vendor that works and my speeds have shot back up as per what im paying for. I think if the support were more informed what was going on, they could give a much better service - my loading on the UBR is now a lot less that what it was - so re-seg must have happened which would explain my speeds getting better.

I dont expect 100% of the time for my downloads etc to be full speed but you can understand that 100% of the time (when the fault was there) I was getting the very same speed on everything i tested as 600K line.

Many thanks for all your help to everybody that replied and sorry that this got off on a wrong footing - Ill will try and explain in a lot more detail next time with test results etc....

28-01-2004, 19:47	#59
Mauldor Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Scunthorpe Age: 59 Services: 50mbit, Base TV, Base Phone Posts: 437	Re: Email and 1mbit line Not so much work Paul - just emailing timesheets to my client and awaiting auth copies back - noramlly everything is done though post - this is why i had to switch to a service for email which had some sort of backup for problems. I did try some time back to get the Business NTL Cable line but was told i was not a business even though im self employed. I dont expect by the way for ADSL to be any better - im sure there is a few out there who have had it / got it and hate it even more than Cable for example. Since Ive had cable Ive been fairly trouble free for the best part of 4 years -its only of late (probabaly overloaded UBR's maybe) that the Quality is slipping downhill and ADSL is starting now to look a little bit more of a option. Ive already voted with my Wallet on the rest of the NTL service - I reverted back to SKY and BT as it goes some time back and from experience had no problems at all since with the service on that front. To me ADSL is getting faster / cheaper - I wanted for exmaple a 2mbit line / 256 Upload or another soloution which I thought was a good idea was what Bulldog are doing - Off Peak you get a lot faster speeds - as your sharing the business Bandwidth which im guessing goes unused off - peak. This is only available in Major towns as far as I can see though - so no chance for it to come to my part of the world. As I say though - problem is sorted for now - I have a Email Vendor that works and my speeds have shot back up as per what im paying for. I think if the support were more informed what was going on, they could give a much better service - my loading on the UBR is now a lot less that what it was - so re-seg must have happened which would explain my speeds getting better. I dont expect 100% of the time for my downloads etc to be full speed but you can understand that 100% of the time (when the fault was there) I was getting the very same speed on everything i tested as 600K line. Many thanks for all your help to everybody that replied and sorry that this got off on a wrong footing - Ill will try and explain in a lot more detail next time with test results etc....