[NTL] BroadBand Availability

Hi,

first of all, I would like to apologize for my bad english. I'm French
and will try to be understood as i can ;-).

Here is my situation.
I have a NTL box, witch provides me with Digital TV. I also registered
to NTL phone access (so I dont have BT Phone number), and a RTC
unlimited lowspeed Internet acces.

NTL website tells me I can not have broadband where I live (SW,
Vauxhall) and once I called them and the girl told me the same, without
explanation (she may have looked on their website as I did).

What do you think about it ? (cause my coworkers tell me that if i have
this box and digital tv there is no reason i can't have brodband).

Thank you.

GwG wrote:
> "Laurent Makowski" <laurentm@mill3d> wrote in message
> news:4107B400.2090200@mill3d...
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>first of all, I would like to apologize for my bad english. I'm French
>>and will try to be understood as i can ;-).
>>
>>Here is my situation.
>>I have a NTL box, witch provides me with Digital TV. I also registered
>>to NTL phone access (so I dont have BT Phone number), and a RTC
>>unlimited lowspeed Internet acces.
>>
>>NTL website tells me I can not have broadband where I live (SW,
>>Vauxhall) and once I called them and the girl told me the same,
>
> without
>
>>explanation (she may have looked on their website as I did).
>>
>>What do you think about it ? (cause my coworkers tell me that if i
>
> have
>
>>this box and digital tv there is no reason i can't have brodband).
>>
>
>
> If you have NTL digital TV, you should be able to get NTL broadband, as
> I think the signal travels down the same cable.
>
>

I just called NTL.
A guy told me it was ok and recently available... ouf ...
But then I asked somme questions about modem etc, and he had to check
with his collegues ... when he came back, he told me "I'm sorry I was
wrong, it is not available in your area".

NB: I forgot to tell you but the "interactive services" on TV don't work.

"Laurent Makowski" <laurentm@mill3d> wrote in message
news:4107B400.2090200@mill3d...
> Hi,
>
> first of all, I would like to apologize for my bad english. I'm French
> and will try to be understood as i can ;-).
>
> Here is my situation.
> I have a NTL box, witch provides me with Digital TV. I also registered
> to NTL phone access (so I dont have BT Phone number), and a RTC
> unlimited lowspeed Internet acces.
>
> NTL website tells me I can not have broadband where I live (SW,
> Vauxhall) and once I called them and the girl told me the same,
without
> explanation (she may have looked on their website as I did).
>
> What do you think about it ? (cause my coworkers tell me that if i
have
> this box and digital tv there is no reason i can't have brodband).
>

If you have NTL digital TV, you should be able to get NTL broadband, as
I think the signal travels down the same cable.

"Laurent Makowski" <laurentm@mill3d> wrote in message
news:4107BE98.309@mill3d...
> NB: I forgot to tell you but the "interactive services" on TV don't work.
>

Are you Wembley by any chance?

Ok so if I understand well, I have to subscribe to another ISP, but they
all ask me for my BT phone number to check availability.
But I don't have any BT phone number cause I am on NTL ... what a mess.

If you have ntl digital tv you should be able to have broadband cable
internet. I'm not a subscriber to NTL nor know alot about the company and
techonology. If you live in an analogue area you won't be able to have
broadband. I was under the impression all the analogue network had been
converted to digital?

You can still convert you NTL phoneline to BT. Then subscribe to an ADSL
service. Cheaper and more varied choice of suppliers.

Dan

"Laurent Makowski" <laurentm@mill3d> wrote in message
news:4107DC34.4060002@mill3d...
> Ok so if I understand well, I have to subscribe to another ISP, but they
> all ask me for my BT phone number to check availability.
> But I don't have any BT phone number cause I am on NTL ... what a mess.
>

Laurent Makowski wrote:
> GwG wrote:
>> "Laurent Makowski" <laurentm@mill3d> wrote in message
>> news:4107B400.2090200@mill3d...
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> first of all, I would like to apologize for my bad english. I'm
>>> French and will try to be understood as i can ;-).
>>>
>>> Here is my situation.
>>> I have a NTL box, witch provides me with Digital TV. I also
>>> registered to NTL phone access (so I dont have BT Phone number),
>>> and a RTC unlimited lowspeed Internet acces.
>>>
>>> NTL website tells me I can not have broadband where I live (SW,
>>> Vauxhall) and once I called them and the girl told me the same,
>>
>> without
>>
>>> explanation (she may have looked on their website as I did).
>>>
>>> What do you think about it ? (cause my coworkers tell me that if i
>>
>> have
>>
>>> this box and digital tv there is no reason i can't have brodband).
>>>
>>
>>
>> If you have NTL digital TV, you should be able to get NTL
>> broadband, as I think the signal travels down the same cable.
>>
>>
>
> I just called NTL.
> A guy told me it was ok and recently available... ouf ...
> But then I asked somme questions about modem etc, and he had to
> check with his collegues ... when he came back, he told me "I'm
> sorry I was wrong, it is not available in your area".
>
> NB: I forgot to tell you but the "interactive services" on TV don't
> work.

NTL's interactive services don't work, full stop. It's always going to be
activated some time in the future but never actually happens, for some
reason or other...

"Dan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:4107e398$0$6447$(E-Mail Removed)...
> If you have ntl digital tv you should be able to have broadband cable
> internet. I'm not a subscriber to NTL nor know alot about the company
and
> techonology. If you live in an analogue area you won't be able to have
> broadband. I was under the impression all the analogue network had
been
> converted to digital?
>

When I had a NTL phone line installed, I was advised to take the
analogue TV service, as a freebie for a few months, then cancel it, as
then it could easily be changed to digital. I never took the digital
service, canceled the analogue TV service, and phone, but still got
broadband from NTL.

If Laurent is cabled up for NTL digital, I can't see why he has been
told that he can't have broadband, I always thought that it was the
non-cabling of areas that was the limiting factor.

"GwG" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> If Laurent is cabled up for NTL digital, I can't see why he has been
> told that he can't have broadband, I always thought that it was the
> non-cabling of areas that was the limiting factor.

NTL will tell you anything, depending on which way the wind is blowing at
the time :-)

Has the OP tried putting their postcode in the relevant box on the ntlworld
website?

I can give you an email address or phone no. to contact for stand-alone
cable modem which will probably get you a better answer than just ringing
their published phone no., but (as with all things NTL) no guarentees :-(

Regards - Keef
--
Dartford Kent UK
Email (E-Mail Removed)
(To reply, remove the WRAPPER)
Web: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/k.hallock/fsale.html

GwG wrote:
> "Laurent Makowski" <laurentm@mill3d> wrote in message
> news:4107B400.2090200@mill3d...
>> Hi,
>>
>> first of all, I would like to apologize for my bad english. I'm
>> French and will try to be understood as i can ;-).
>>
>> Here is my situation.
>> I have a NTL box, witch provides me with Digital TV. I also
>> registered to NTL phone access (so I dont have BT Phone number), and
>> a RTC unlimited lowspeed Internet acces.
>>
>> NTL website tells me I can not have broadband where I live (SW,
>> Vauxhall) and once I called them and the girl told me the same,
>> without explanation (she may have looked on their website as I did).
>>
>> What do you think about it ? (cause my coworkers tell me that if i
>> have this box and digital tv there is no reason i can't have
>> brodband).
>>
>
> If you have NTL digital TV, you should be able to get NTL broadband,
> as I think the signal travels down the same cable.

Not if you live in Ealing, London, capital of England you can't.