NTL at Uni

[Nemesis]

For the budding students out there ....

Not seen this before ..

http://www.ntlatuni.com/

[seaneeboy]

re:
http://www.ntlatuni.com/availability...universityId=5

I spent a year at Leicester Uni living in the Halls of residence there, and all the phones were provided through ntl. the costs were pretty pricey, but internal calls were free and that was cool.
Ideally the uni could have set up some dialup servers on an internal line but that was more of a dream of mine rather than anything that would actually happen!

So, I got a card which I recharged regularly, and the modem pauses/tones meant I could dial straigth to my dialup provider.

it was pretty good all in all cos if anyone wanted to speak to their mum/dads they could txt home and you get a direct line back. internal calls free so that covers mates. cos it was a new system installed, the quality was really good, and the system darned sharp.

Of course because of this way they'd set it up ntl: are said to have lost a fortune - or at elast having to wait a LONG time to recoup investment - which they probably should have thought of first.

[Dave Stones]

they dont have ntl at birmingham, its provided by a company called Damovo. looks like pretty much the same setup though -- at brumski, everyone has a phone extension in their room that gives you a 4 digit extension number, and an outside line etc, it is PAYG of course cos being students they assume we cant cope with monthly billing . of course we found out that you didnt have to have the 0870 number for dialing in from somewhere else in the country, and that there was an alternate 0121 number .

i wonder if ntl provide these halls with access to the university network like we get and exploit..... 10 and 100mbit free for 5000 students would cripple ntl though methinks...

anyway thats ...

[Strzelecki]

Our uni (Keele) has phones in every room with a 4 digit number and over the period I've been there (3 years) various companies have run the phones a stupid payg prices and gone bust, the current company (Keycom I think, Not sure though as I'm not in halls thankfully!) has allow local telephone numbers though instead of 0870 ones so people can call in cheaply after all the students made a fuss. The university does have a campus wide network to with a 10Mbs connection in every room, there is a 500Mb cap though (per day) and nearly every port apart from web browsing and email is blocked. However there is NTL equipment outside every hall block and a coax connection in every room too but no service to these. I tried equiring about this and got as far as finding out that the service was cut off back in the C&W or Nyex days when the uni didn't pay the bill for cabled tv or something. Shame though because if NTL could come to an agreement with the uni then the network could be reconnected and they could con money out of the students so uni wouldn't have to worry about what they were downloading!

[Dave Stones]

Originally Posted by Strzelecki

The university does have a campus wide network to with a 10Mbs connection in every room, there is a 500Mb cap though (per day) and nearly every port apart from web browsing and email is blocked.

technically there is no cap here. everything but browsing and email is also blocked, but there are certain ways to circumvent this... (streamload being one but you pay for that ) but shhh. good job i know ppl on the web crew

there is satellite tv connections in all of our rooms as well. i dont know anyone with a decoder to try it though (its not sky digital, its a great huge 1m wide dish in the middle of our complex. maybe its an ancient sky setup....)

[punky]

Im glad NTL have finally replaced CommunityNet. During my final year, I managed to get back into halls, and that year they were half way disbanding CN. My mates and I had no end of bloody trouble just getting the line activitated. Let alone sorting the problems that arose.

Come to think of it, my university isn't on that list. Hmmm.