Alternative ISP's for a ntl phone Line
07-08-2004, 23:35
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Re: Alternative ISP's for a ntl phone Line
AFAIK if you can find an ISP that uses an 0800 connection number, you should be able to use it on an ntl line. There may not be many ISPs apart from ntl and AOL offering this as a domestic package, but quite a few ISPs offer it as a business service, AIR from when I was on dialup, and some are hardly any more expensive than domestic ISP services. A business provider should be offering a better service (lower contention rate, no cut off etc) as well, which may compensate for the higher cost.
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08-08-2004, 14:38
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Re: Alternative ISP's for a ntl phone Line
Any ISP supplied by Murphx. These include dmcdial.com and wisesurfer.co.uk.
Both of their 160 hours a month services are £13.99 and are very, very reliable. The technical/customer support is also second to none.
Don't touch Virgin, AOL, or anybody else like that, there's always trouble.
Go for dmcdial.com - Was with them before NTL Broadband - dmcdial are EXCELLENT!
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08-08-2004, 15:34
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Re: Alternative ISP's for a ntl phone Line
A Ntl phone line will work on any pay as you go ISP provider.This is what I have as a back up from the BB.IF you want 24/7 you have as far as I know only got AOL.
I had this problem when I was waiting for my FREE dial up service from ntl for 16 months.I got shafted as one by one all the ISP's that said they provided the service withdrew it for cable phone lines.
Why not stick with AOL but not use the software(if that's your problem) just use IE to surf after you have used the AOL software to dial up.It's what I did for a while(when I was waiting for the FREE service which soon became a pay for service 2 months after I got my CD)
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15-09-2004, 23:25
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Re: Alternative ISP's for a ntl phone Line
can anyone please help?...i have got the ntl dialup package fifteen quid a month which is supposed to be 24/7 but the fhuijhvfiyf's keep dropping the connection after about two hours..is this normal and if so can i over ride it.
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15-09-2004, 23:55
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Re: Alternative ISP's for a ntl phone Line
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Originally Posted by yodaferret
can anyone please help?...i have got the ntl dialup package fifteen quid a month which is supposed to be 24/7 but the fhuijhvfiyf's keep dropping the connection after about two hours..is this normal and if so can i over ride it.
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I believe that the two hour timeout is normal. It certainly was when I used to use dialup.
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16-09-2004, 00:11
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Re: Alternative ISP's for a ntl phone Line
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Originally Posted by Paul M
I believe that the two hour timeout is normal. It certainly was when I used to use dialup.
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Yup, connections are usually dropped after 2 hours.
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