ADSL on ntl:Freedom

[Graham F]

I have just had a very intresting conversation with someone and then we got onto talking about ntl

They claim that ntl freedom are now planning to launch their ADSL product in the 3rd week of June, this comes from someone who's info is usually spot on, infact the same person who told me abt the 1meg increase back in Jan. So I have no reason to doubt the info.

It will only be a 512k offering to start with.

Also in the same conversation they talked abt 2meg for ntl:home customers but this is not expected till Dec/Jan

Hmm, the 2mb sounds interesting.

I wonder how the guildford trials of the "speed boosting" are going.

Originally Posted by Scooby

I have just had a very intresting conversation with someone and then we got onto talking about ntl

They claim that ntl freedom are now planning to launch their ADSL product in the 3rd week of June, this comes from someone who's info is usually spot on, infact the same person who told me abt the 1meg increase back in Jan. So I have no reason to doubt the info.

It will only be a 512k offering to start with.

Also in the same conversation they talked abt 2meg for ntl:home customers but this is not expected till Dec/Jan

You've just reminded me, I was looking at my firewall logs the other night and looked astonished when I saw one of the logged hosts names was an ntl one, but it was an unsual one, instead of saying the usual at the end 'broadband.ntl.com' it said 'adsl.ntl.com' I thought it was probably a spoofed hostname.

[Graham F]

they are trialing it in basingstoke for employees at the moment, well they were abt 4 weeks ago!

[slimshady]

Originally Posted by Mick

You've just reminded me, I was looking at my firewall logs the other night and looked astonished when I saw one of the logged hosts names was an ntl one, but it was an unsual one, instead of saying the usual at the end 'broadband.ntl.com' it said 'adsl.ntl.com' I thought it was probably a spoofed hostname.

the host ont he adsl.ntl.com domain are all ntl: Business ADSL Customers,


ntl have most of the equipment they need already to launch an ntl: freedom ADSL product as they have the ntl Business ADSL product and the Virgin.net ADSL product already running across their network. Both I think both BT ADSL Level 3 Wholesale services.

[stuey82]

It would be wicked if they did launch such a service. Id defo sign over to ntl:freedom ADSL!

[kronas]

i wonder if it will be capped *runs away

[Charlie_Bubble]

Originally Posted by Pem

Hmm, the 2mb sounds interesting.

I wonder how the guildford trials of the "speed boosting" are going.

It finished about 3 weeks ago.

[Defiant]

Hmm wonder if there going to price it to compete with the other ADSL providers out there like Bulldog and Pipex. Nah its NTL after all

[Neil]

Originally Posted by stuey82

It would be wicked if they did launch such a service. Id defo sign over to ntl:freedom ADSL!

Why??

Why would ntl launching a DSL product be 'wicked'?-Jeez they can't even satisfy customers with the products belonging to them, let alone a DSL product.

*Shudders*

I suppose the first questions are will they have the transparent caches on the ADSL, and will you be able to get a proper fixed IP ?

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Pem

I suppose the first questions are will they have the transparent caches on the ADSL, and will you be able to get a proper fixed IP ?

Not to mention the cost.

[themelon]

Well if its priced at £24.99 it will be competatively priced with comparative products.

Im yet to experience an acceptable level of service below £20 a month. And Productslike AOL and BT Openworld etc are still priced +£27.99 a month.

ntl have a number of satisified customers on ntl cable broadband and on freedom so why not on ADSL. It has to be accepted ntl do have a considerable number of satified customers from their 1 million plus internet subscribers!

Bulldog £21.99
Pipex £23.44
Ntl ADSL? £24.99 (possible free equipment activation??!?)
BT £29.99
AOL £27.99

Not uncompetative in anyway!

[Neil]

Originally Posted by themelon

Not uncompetative in anyway!

Apart from the service they 'offer' you mean?

And apart from the fact that none of those companies that you mentioned have customers that have to keep changing proxies constantly just to get a webpage you mean?

What about the fact that I have not received one spam email to my Pipex address since November?

What about if I ring Pipex (for whatever query) I get a tracking number for my issue (no hiding behind false names/promises like ntl)

ntl are far from competitive-they can't even get their own BB products right-I dread to think what will happen when they start offering a DSL package.

Get your own products mastered before you go branching out I think is the best advice here.

[Chrysalis]

Bulldog £21.99 - poor
Pipex £23.44 - good
Ntl ADSL? £24.99 (possible free equipment activation??!?) - poor
BT £29.99 - ok
AOL £27.99 - ok

price isnt everything and to be honest I wouldnt mind paying what I pay now or even more if I got more for my money.

static ip
no transperent proxies
email that arrives quicker then 2 days
no cap or higher cap

I would pay 39.99 for the above happily enough, but I seen low end 1mbit products for 29.99 and it wouldnt surprise me if they matched ntl's service.