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Originally Posted by Neil
The thing is though, is that there's little or nothing for you to actually do! That's the beauty of DSL activation, you sign up, they activate it, you get home on specified date & plug your router/modem etc in & away you go!
I strongly suggest you ring BT & at least give them the option to check it for you, also do have a read here: http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...78&postcount=1
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Cheers, that thread is very interesting. I may just give it a go then
In regards to porting the number, would I get a number initially from BT, then if the line is installed okay, tell NTL I want to cancel and tell BT I want to port the number? Slightly worrying in that thread the mention that some numbers are not 'portable'. Any way of finding out if your number is one of those? I don't really want to lose the number at the moment (though I could resort to paying both NTL and BT line rentals and use BT just for ADSL. I could still probably get ADSL cheap enough to make it equivalent to what I'm paying at the moment).
The main issue though is finding an ADSL provider that don't have transparent proxies, don't block any ports, allow you to run servers without restriction (email and web especially), don't have a download cap, don't use a premium-rate support line, and don't make you wait 40 minutes and cut you off when you do call support.
I'll also need to get a plain Ethernet ADSL modem (no need for a router as I've got one), but I've got my eye on one that's fairly cheap.
The possible screw up on all of this is BT saying my line is too crap for ADSL. At least if they say I can only have 512kbps I will get 256kbps upstream which is mainly what I want.