What internet connection are you on?

[BGonaSTICK]

BT announced this weekend that they will be running a special promotion during the morning of April 1st whereby they will give customers transferring from another ISP free 512kbps broadband access for life!

You simply have to call the BT broadband customer services helpdesk before noon and quote code IMNIDJUT.

 

[damhy]

You almost tricked me then!

 

[Bradwall]

I'm with Wanadoo broadband 1meg, free modem and connection, seems ok to me.

Cheers Bradwall

 

[Burnham Beech]

BT basic package of 512kbps for £17.99 has daily usage limit of 33Mb - seems a waste of time to me.

Have I read that right - sounds like an April Fools joke to me.

 

[damhy]

Do you not mean that it has a monthly download limit of 1Gb? That's not quite the same thing.

 

[T_G]

woohoooo finally got my 2048 kbit/s installed!!!!!

 

[BGonaSTICK]

LOL, welcome to the 2M high club

 

[T_G]

The good news is I don't even pay more than before with my 56k as long as I don't download more than 2G a month (which for now seems more than enough for me)

 

[Jaffer]

BT announced this weekend that they will be running a special promotion during the morning of April 1st whereby they will give customers transferring from another ISP free 512kbps broadband access for life!

You simply have to call the BT broadband customer services helpdesk before noon and quote code IMNIDJUT.

Its "April Fool Day" stick. Can we call you in the early morning rather than calling BT? LOL....

 

[cmcnetworks]

8 MB Pipe mostly speed is very important for me due to work commitments also have own RAQ servers running forward facing for DNS and hosting.

 

[gameboy]

NTL and Telewest are about to merge, if news reports are to be believed...

If you are with any of them check you are on the fastest connection for you subscription.

I was on 512k until I called up - now on 2mb for same payment.

Ohh happy days....

 

[s*t*a*r*m*a*n]

What do u mean gameboy? check? You should be automatically on the right speed based on your subscription anyway. Im on 2 megs at about 35 pounds a month but people on bulldog can get 4 megs for less than this so hopefully the price war will start again. I think all the p2p file sharing software is terribly slow on blueyonder, not sure why, problems seem better on normal browsing and stuff.

 

[gameboy]

What do u mean gameboy? check? You should be automatically on the right speed based on your subscription anyway.

They sent me a letter saying i would be upgraded - didn't notice any difference after a few weeks. Called them and they asked me to go to their website and go through the upgrade proceedure to 2meg (which was now the same price). After following the instructions the modem restarted and was at 2meg.

Yes, it should do this automatically but it looks like NTL modems need new software upgrade to run at this speed.

Hear that you can upgrade offline, yourself, and they never know;-)

Haven't tried it - has anyone?

 

[bodge]

I live in Sweden and have 8MB ( for which I pay ca £20 a month) Britain is a long way behind compared to here ; 24Mb is possible too for another tenner a month.

 

[s*t*a*r*m*a*n]

I live in Sweden and have 8MB ( for which I pay ca £20 a month) Britain is a long way behind compared to here ; 24Mb is possible too for another tenner a month.

Bodge is the cost of living dearer than in uk?
i pay 35 pounds a month for 2 megs so you pay 5 pounds less and you could get 24 megs? i think i am being Humping
why is sweden so far ahead in broadband pricing?

 

[bodge]

I don't know why Sweden is so far ahead, but generally the cost of living is a bit lower than in the UK. In the broadband field I guess competition is the main reason. Generally I think the average Joe in Britain is being shafted for almost everything.

Bodge is the cost of living dearer than in uk?
i pay 35 pounds a month for 2 megs so you pay 5 pounds less and you could get 24 megs? i think i am being Humping
why is sweden so far ahead in broadband pricing?

 

[PoloMint]

What technology does that 24meg service use bodge? Some fancy ADSL? Coax Cable? Something else entirely?

 

[bodge]

What technology does that 24meg service use bodge? Some fancy ADSL? Coax Cable? Something else entirely?

It is ADSL ( price 389 crowns a month, which is £29.25 at today's exchange rate. )
Even 100MB is available via fibre and I can get the details if you are interested

 

[Topper]

What technology does that 24meg service use bodge? Some fancy ADSL? Coax Cable? Something else entirely?

B A N D W I D T H

 

[Likvid]

24Mbps VDSL.