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DeadKenny · 28-08-2003, 02:46

Ditch the TV and phone at least. Definitely worth getting Sky (I left years back now when NTL couldn't provide digital TV despite 3 years of broken promises). I still have cable modem and currently the phone but the plan is to get a BT line for at least caller ID, apply for ADSL and if I get accepted... bye bye NTL forever

. It means I'll have to drop the 1Meg BB, but that's not a problem as I'm really after 256kbps upstream and you get that with 512kbps ADSL unlike NTL's pathetic 128kbps upstream on the 600kbps service.

Get the BT line first though, and see if you can get ADSL before ditching the cable modem (thankfully BT are nice and tell you flat whether the line is crap or not, unlike NTL who just provide you with the cable modem and then let you suffer with a broken modem thanks to signal level problems for a year or more

).

28-08-2003, 02:46	#10
DeadKenny Inactive Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Woking Age: 51 Services: PlusNet 2Mbps Premier. BT. Sky Digital. TiVo. Posts: 273	Ditch the TV and phone at least. Definitely worth getting Sky (I left years back now when NTL couldn't provide digital TV despite 3 years of broken promises). I still have cable modem and currently the phone but the plan is to get a BT line for at least caller ID, apply for ADSL and if I get accepted... bye bye NTL forever . It means I'll have to drop the 1Meg BB, but that's not a problem as I'm really after 256kbps upstream and you get that with 512kbps ADSL unlike NTL's pathetic 128kbps upstream on the 600kbps service. Get the BT line first though, and see if you can get ADSL before ditching the cable modem (thankfully BT are nice and tell you flat whether the line is crap or not, unlike NTL who just provide you with the cable modem and then let you suffer with a broken modem thanks to signal level problems for a year or more ).