I'm switching to NTL

I'm tired of waiting for LLU in my area. NTL provide 10Mb (with a 75Gb/month
cap) cable in my area and apparently I can still keep my BT line.

My currently on Metronet 2Mb. Is there anything I would lose in terms of the
service level? Blocked ports/services?

Is 10Mb just a theoretical maximum to does the actual speed come close to
that?

Thanks

"Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm tired of waiting for LLU in my area. NTL provide 10Mb (with a
75Gb/month
> cap) cable in my area and apparently I can still keep my BT line.
>
> My currently on Metronet 2Mb. Is there anything I would lose in terms of
the
> service level? Blocked ports/services?
>
> Is 10Mb just a theoretical maximum to does the actual speed come close to
> that?

as it's provided by coaxial cable, and not the telephone line, it's close to
maximum. However, the 10Mb roll-out has only begun recently, and there are
reports of folk getting a LOT less than 10Mbps, some even less than their
previous speed. I'd be inclined to hang on a while till things on NTL's
network settle down, and keep on eye on this group for other comments.

P.

Steve wrote:
> I'm tired of waiting for LLU in my area. NTL provide 10Mb (with a
> 75Gb/month cap) cable in my area and apparently I can still keep my
> BT line.
> My currently on Metronet 2Mb. Is there anything I would lose in
> terms
> of the service level? Blocked ports/services?
>
> Is 10Mb just a theoretical maximum to does the actual speed come
> close to that?
>

Remember that most if not all traffic goes thru their infamous
transparent proxies. When I was on NTL some nights you had to play
find the working inktomi & the system only ever ran reasonably fast
when they turned them all off...

"Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm tired of waiting for LLU in my area. NTL provide 10Mb (with a
> 75Gb/month cap) cable in my area and apparently I can still keep my BT
> line.
>
> My currently on Metronet 2Mb. Is there anything I would lose in terms of
> the service level? Blocked ports/services?
>
> Is 10Mb just a theoretical maximum to does the actual speed come close to
> that?
>
> Thanks
>

Seriously dont do it! I work for NTL and its not worth it! Basically, they
have no plans to make the 10mb unlimitted, will hold you to a 12 month
contract and will provide pretty abysmal service every step of the way inc <
10mb downloads at all times :P
Just wait for ADSL2 mate ukonline is preaching 24mb for £29.99 a month

"Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm tired of waiting for LLU in my area. NTL provide 10Mb (with a
> 75Gb/month cap) cable in my area and apparently I can still keep my BT
> line.

And don't forget that when it goes wrong you'll spend hours on hold, or
being cut off, trying to get it sorted.

>
> My currently on Metronet 2Mb. Is there anything I would lose in terms of
> the service level? Blocked ports/services?
>
> Is 10Mb just a theoretical maximum to does the actual speed come close to
> that?
>
> Thanks
>

WCZ wrote:
> "Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>>I'm tired of waiting for LLU in my area. NTL provide 10Mb (with a
>>75Gb/month cap) cable in my area and apparently I can still keep my BT
>>line.
>
>
> And don't forget that when it goes wrong you'll spend hours on hold, or
> being cut off, trying to get it sorted.

Not always. I got through in 20 seconds this week. But my record is
around 2 /hours/, and I seem to recall some have exceeded even that.

Don't expect fast response even after you've logged a fault call. I've
had to wait several days for an engineer to turn up to fix a fault (and
I keep an active non-ntl dial-up account for such eventualities - you
don't get a free 'fall-back' dialup account with ntl).
>
>
>>My currently on Metronet 2Mb. Is there anything I would lose in terms of
>>the service level? Blocked ports/services?

No major port blockages. IIRC ntl block a few known trojan ports, but
I'm running web and email servers at home without a problem. Oh, their
email is 'dubious' - I don't use it much now after some important mail
was delayed for 3 days for no obvious reason.

--
Please use the corrected version of the address below for replies.
Replies to the header address will be junked, as will mail from
various domains listed at www.scottsonline.org.uk
Mike Scott Harlow Essex England.(unet -a-t- scottsonline.org.uk)

"Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm tired of waiting for LLU in my area. NTL provide 10Mb (with a
> 75Gb/month cap) cable in my area and apparently I can still keep my BT
> line.
>
> My currently on Metronet 2Mb. Is there anything I would lose in terms of
> the service level? Blocked ports/services?
>
> Is 10Mb just a theoretical maximum to does the actual speed come close to
> that?
>
> Thanks

I've had NTL cable for a few years, recently upgraded to 10MB. No complaints
at all.

--
John Blessing

http://www.LbeHelpdesk.com - Help Desk software priced to suit all
businesses
http://www.room-booking-software.com - Schedule rooms & equipment bookings
for your meeting/class over the web.
http://www.lbetoolbox.com - Remove Duplicates from MS Outlook, find/replace,
send newsletters

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:50:29 GMT, "John Blessing"
<jb@**REMOVE**THIS**Lbesoftware.com> wrote:

>"Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I'm tired of waiting for LLU in my area. NTL provide 10Mb (with a
>> 75Gb/month cap) cable in my area and apparently I can still keep my BT
>> line.
>>
>> My currently on Metronet 2Mb. Is there anything I would lose in terms of
>> the service level? Blocked ports/services?
>>
>> Is 10Mb just a theoretical maximum to does the actual speed come close to
>> that?
>>
>> Thanks
>
>I've had NTL cable for a few years, recently upgraded to 10MB. No complaints
>at all.

....so you don't suffer their flaky DNS where you sometime have to
refresh a web page 2 or 3 times because of a "Cannot find server or
DNS Error"?

Or the pop3 server on a third-party ISP is "not found" and is suddenly
there (and was all the time, only the DNS failed to look it up)?

Lucky you.

"Mark" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:50:29 GMT, "John Blessing"
> <jb@**REMOVE**THIS**Lbesoftware.com> wrote:
>
> >I've had NTL cable for a few years, recently upgraded to 10MB. No
complaints
> >at all.
>
> ...so you don't suffer their flaky DNS where you sometime have to
> refresh a web page 2 or 3 times because of a "Cannot find server or
> DNS Error"?
>
> Or the pop3 server on a third-party ISP is "not found" and is suddenly
> there (and was all the time, only the DNS failed to look it up)?
>
> Lucky you.

don't use NTL's dns servers, you're not obliged to, and there are plenty of
free access dns servers around ;-)
I've been with, firstly BTOpenworld, and NTL, and never used the dns servers
from either company.

P.

"Mark" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:50:29 GMT, "John Blessing"
> <jb@**REMOVE**THIS**Lbesoftware.com> wrote:
>
>>"Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> I'm tired of waiting for LLU in my area. NTL provide 10Mb (with a
>>> 75Gb/month cap) cable in my area and apparently I can still keep my BT
>>> line.
>>>
>>> My currently on Metronet 2Mb. Is there anything I would lose in terms of
>>> the service level? Blocked ports/services?
>>>
>>> Is 10Mb just a theoretical maximum to does the actual speed come close
>>> to
>>> that?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>>I've had NTL cable for a few years, recently upgraded to 10MB. No
>>complaints
>>at all.
>
> ...so you don't suffer their flaky DNS where you sometime have to
> refresh a web page 2 or 3 times because of a "Cannot find server or
> DNS Error"?
>
> Or the pop3 server on a third-party ISP is "not found" and is suddenly
> there (and was all the time, only the DNS failed to look it up)?
>
> Lucky you.

I've been with 6 or more different ISPs over the years. None have been
perfect. NTL has been the best so far. YMMV

--
John Blessing