[Mauldor]

Update to my last post - rang NTL this morning (answered in like one ring - WOW) and its set up but i dont get the reduced bill till next month (confusing this billing in advance thing). Now the question is this - will i get half price for the new prices or half price as in what im paying now? I wish i had thought of that before jumping at the offer to be honest. Though £19 a month is not bad i suppose for 3 months for 1mbit though even at this price i am thinking maybe i should have jumped ship anyhow.

Ok so the speeds are going up - but by time the speeds have gone up - my 3 months at this magic half price will be probably up. Will I stay - the short answer is no because you have to weigh up all the pro's and cons and what its costing you really.

Lets See, NTL 1.5Mbit/256 for £37.99, email dont work, news - joking right and webspace thats usefull for storing 55mb files (thats if you can delete the files on there).
Now lets addd to that cost shall we - Proper Web Space (500MB, ASP), proper email system so when i press send - hey guess what, it actually gets there. Then there is news Servers - another £10 a month.

Compare that with a ADSL providor out there - £32.99 a month for 1mbit/256 - reports sounded good. You get enough web space for a forum plus PHP, MYSQL sort of thing - so you can actually do something with it. No Restrictions as its a POWER USER Package, fixed IP and a news server that works.

So to me - the latter seems better value - no 12 months contract either, 1 month and if you leave before 12 months then you pay the connection charge - which sounds fair enough to me.

Out of intertest (soory slightly off topic), there was a Power User Survey thing way back - what ever happend with that - did we all waste our time filling that in?