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Originally Posted by Terry
Does anyone know when the BT36 postcode area is due for upgrade. The upgrade link says October but my neighbours just a short distance away in BT15 were upgraded in August. Dont understand why there should be a 3 month gap for 100 yds distance between the postcode areas. Surely the greater Belfast area could have all been done at or about the same time. Getting real impatient with 150 and paying the same as my son who is getting 300 just because he lives just inside the Belfast boundary and I live just outside it
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I know how you feel.. However, it may be that they haven't upgraded anyone on your UBR yet. Just because you live near each other, doesn't necessarily mean you are on the same UBR or even on the same network - a friend of mine couldn't have broadband at all as he lives on the border of Lewisham and Bromley and although everyone else on his street was attached to the Bromley network (which is enabled for broadband), he was attached to the Lewisham one, which had no broadband at the time he left).
The areas that each UBR serves don't necessarily co-incide with the physical area (one UBR may serve one town and half the next for instace).
I've got a slightly different problem.. I am getting 1Meg through a STB, and although I had my STB changed before the beginning of August, and all Cable modem users in my area were upgraded in August, I have to wait 'till some time in November because NTL can only upgrade the STBs nationally.