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swapshop1 · 30-08-2005, 17:41

I've been looking at using AOL on NTL cable. They offer 1Mb service unlimited download. Now they claim to need to give me a new cable box, why i don't know? Surely like with BT the 3rd party just piggy backs the network, in this case AOL install a connection at the head end? anyway this means I will be disconnected for a period before being reconnected and have to endure waiting for an engineer to come around just to hand deliver the box and plug it in...... whoopee!!!! A day of work wasted indoors.

Anyway I'm gonna wait till i come back off holiday and my exams are over this year so that I can afford to be offline.

What do you guys think; do i really need another cable box that's going to do exactly the same job but have a shiney new logo? maybe NTL have separated their networks and I'd be on a totaly new connection to an AOL UBR/head end (haven't noticed any AOL green boxes on the streets)?

30-08-2005, 17:41	#1
swapshop1 Inactive Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Lincoln Posts: 89	AOL on NTL I've been looking at using AOL on NTL cable. They offer 1Mb service unlimited download. Now they claim to need to give me a new cable box, why i don't know? Surely like with BT the 3rd party just piggy backs the network, in this case AOL install a connection at the head end? anyway this means I will be disconnected for a period before being reconnected and have to endure waiting for an engineer to come around just to hand deliver the box and plug it in...... whoopee!!!! A day of work wasted indoors. Anyway I'm gonna wait till i come back off holiday and my exams are over this year so that I can afford to be offline. What do you guys think; do i really need another cable box that's going to do exactly the same job but have a shiney new logo? maybe NTL have separated their networks and I'd be on a totaly new connection to an AOL UBR/head end (haven't noticed any AOL green boxes on the streets)?