29-05-2004, 17:19
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Cambridge
Posts: 16,760
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Re: Have you....
Went from dial-up to 600k BB a few years ago.
Upgraded to the 1Mb service once the price dropped from £49.99 to £34.99.
Staying on the 1Mb ("soon" to be 1.5Mb) service, despite the upcoming price increase, as I split the cost with my housemates.
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29-05-2004, 17:39
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#17
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Inactive
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: UK-South East-Herts
Age: 39
Posts: 288
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29-05-2004, 18:14
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Inactive
Join Date: Jun 2003
Age: 58
Posts: 5,566
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Re: Have you....
Started on 150k, went to 1mg but my STB couldn't cope with it. Then changed to 600k and never looked back (associate rate helps  )
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29-05-2004, 18:32
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Trollsplatter
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: North of Watford
Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests
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Re: Have you....
Started with 512k and still here now it's 600k. Looking forward to getting it upped to 750k. If it's a marked improvement, the chances of me signing up with ntl after I move house will also have improved...
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29-05-2004, 18:57
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#20
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Re: Have you....
I originally had BT phone, Sky analogue & Freeserve. I took up the free install option for phone & Analogue Tv from (then) Diamond Cable & then moved to NTL dialup when they started the free service. I upgraded to 600K from that & have kept with it, since. (although I had to 'upgrade' when i found my original installation was actually coming down at 150K  )
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30-05-2004, 09:32
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Guest
Location: Sutton in Ashfield.
Services: Virgin, phone and 50meg Broadband.
Posts: n/a
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Re: Have you....
Started off on the 500meg a few years ago, upped to 1meg a few months after.
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30-05-2004, 10:20
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Inactive
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: M20, Manchester
Age: 38
Services: VM Phone, TV and 20mb Broadband
Posts: 521
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i got 150k first. it was free install and i got the family pack 1/2 price for 12 months!
so i got an excellent deal - plus i got 150k thru stb so 256k max!
then the £3 128k to 150k price increase happened, i complained and i got a £18 discount for the 6 months of my contract left!!
i love ntl, sort of! and 300k will only make things better (but i'm too cheap to get 600k! )
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30-05-2004, 14:54
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Somewhere
Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone
Posts: 26,546
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When I first joined C&W, I had a 56K dial up connection through them. Then NTL took over C&W and eventually shut down the dial up service I was one (for "technical reasons") so I started using a dial up connection with Totalise. Then, NTL started offering broadband connections, and I jumped straight in on the 512K connection (as it was then). NTL eventally bumped that up to 600K. I then upgraded to 1 Meg when the price came down to £34.99 (which works quite well as my family use the connection as well).
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30-05-2004, 15:08
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The Invisible Woman
Cable Forum Mod
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: between Portsmouth and Southampton.
Age: 74
Services: VM XL TV,50 MB VM BB,VM landline, Tivo
Posts: 40,378
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I went from Dial-up to to 128k.Had 600 for two months trial(thanks to CraigJ)but couldn't afford to stay at that level.Now on 150k and awaiting the changes 'coming soon'.
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30-05-2004, 16:31
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Inactive
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Cardiff, UK
Services: Sky Digital, NTL Phone & 10mb BB
Posts: 126
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Re: Have you....
Started with dialup with cabletel in 1996 or 97, then changed to 64k.
Changed then to 600 (or 512 as it was advertised then), then to 1mb and haven't looked back
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30-05-2004, 16:43
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Inactive
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Teesside
Posts: 8,315
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Used to have dial up, then jumped into the big boy league ( 1mb ) I needed that for my skull and crossbones empire , now I have dropped down to 600k as I'm never here to make use of it, still, all seems to be well
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30-05-2004, 18:32
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Inactive
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Derby, UK
Posts: 63
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Re: Have you....
Started on 600k and almost immedietly went to 1mb due to the 256k upload.
Went back down for 2 months when the stupid 1Gb cap was introduced but realised that I wanted the 256k upload more.
NTL find some way of joining 2 connections together so I can have 3mb/512k connection for £75.98 and I'll happily pay it!!! Gimme speed!!! Especially extra upload!!!
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30-05-2004, 18:43
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Dr Pepper Addict
Cable Forum Admin
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Nottingham
Age: 63
Services: Zen & YouFibre FTTP, Sky Q TV, Sky Mobile, Flextel SIP
Posts: 31,297
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Originally Posted by Siuko
NTL find some way of joining 2 connections together so I can have 3mb/512k connection for £75.98 and I'll happily pay it!!! Gimme speed!!! Especially extra upload!!!
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You can get routers that will bind two lines together. Getting two CM connections is harder - I think it is possible - but you have to have two NTL accounts (in different names ?).
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30-05-2004, 18:51
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#29
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Inactive
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Derby, UK
Posts: 63
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Hehehehe well I hope its nothing like the router thats required to bind to ADSL connections together...
I dont really want to pay over £1000 for a cisco router.. and setting up a machine with linux on doesnt sound fun either....
I cant see why I cant just pay twice as much money for twice the bandwidth... I'm almost certain the network and stb/modem could handle it.
And its not that it would cuase any more problems on the network becuase they would still be getting the same money as if 2 poeple had separate connections....
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31-05-2004, 08:04
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#30
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Inactive
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: DE24 0XX
Services: All XL
Posts: 454
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Re: Have you....
500 (600 automatically) > 1 meg (@ 49.99 then a reduction to 34.99) (soon to be all x'ed 1.5) and staying there until I can get 2M or higher for a 'reasonable price' in my area or NTL start selling me what I want.
<aside> anyone know what happend to BwOD ? </aside>
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