[Theodoric]

I spoke to ntl recently and arranged to have the free upgrade from 1 Mb/s to 2 Mb/s. At the moment I have a connection from (I think) my STB directly to the Ethernet card on my PC - I definitely do not have a cable modem.

Anyway, ntl said that I must have a cable modem and arranged for an engineer to come next Monday. Having been away for a week, I have now done a few speed checks and find that I now have a 2Mb/s connection - I think this may be connected to the fact that last week, soon after phoning ntl, my PC said that ntl could not recognise it - I phoned up ntl who sorted it out.

So, I'd like to know what the true position is before the ntl engineer arrives. I've got a system that seems to be working at 2 Mb/s and I'm a great believer in, "If it ain't broken, don't fix it". Do I really need a cable modem? I'd prefer not if it's not necessary on the simple grounds that it would be one extra thing that could wrong!