[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by Peach

So go with BT then? ADSL isn't available in your area? How is this NTLs fault?

I can't go with BT / DSL even if I want to at the moment due to a hole I've dug myself into.

I switched to ISDN / Home Highway about 3 years ago (when NTL lied to me and said there was no cable outside my house / the cable outside my house was not connected to their network) - despite there being grey boxes on surrounding houses and a 2 door cabinet being directly outside.

So I then had two analogue phone lines a digital phone number and ISDN. For any of you that have never had ISDN it is near double the speed of dial up on 64k and 4x on 128k, it also connects in seconds.

Since then Mrs H has set up working from home and she adopted the second Analogue number as her business number and the digital number as her fax number (incoming faxes are collected bu the PC).

You cannot keep ISDN and go DSL. When they take the ISDN away you lose the two numbers mentioned above. Not really an option when they are plastered over national magazines, brochures etc. This leaves my only DSL option as to get a new BT line installed. This seems to confuse the .... out of them as they cannot run the service on a spare pair of the existing cable.

So until the number portability is sorted I am stuck with (and also happy with - except for upload speed) NTL BB. I'm sure I'm not the only one in such a predicament.