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Originally Posted by willmash
I've just been reading on another thread that people are slowly being upgraded to 10meg, though you have to phone NTL and ask them to upgrade you apperently. Then I checked the competition.
UK Online offering 24meg. £29.99
Be also offering 24meg. £24.00
NTL 10meg. £37.99?
Ok, so UK online and Be are ADSL2, but how long before NTL catch up?? Or drop their prices!!
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those ADSL 24meg product will only give you the top speed if you're very very close to the exchange. I agree though as a direct price comparison NTL aren't as good.
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ukonline is actually 22meg max and this is what they say:
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We believe that if you are less than 2Km away from your telephone exchange, you should be able to get higher than 8Mb, and up to 22Mb. Final download speed depends on the length and quality of your phone line, which we check during Sign Up. If your line won't support 22Mb, but will support higher than 8Mb, we will let you know what speed we think you can get during Sign Up, and set your line as fast as it can go. If we are not able to guarantee at least 8Mb, we will offer you a lower speed service.
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see here how NTL will always defeat ADSL!
http://www.internode.on.net/adsl2/graph/index.htm
you appear to need to be under 2.5km from your exchange in order to be better off speed wise than NTL customers. and that's subject to link quality and distance.