What Happened to NTL's Broadband Rollout?

Adey2002

A couple of months prior to christmas NTL started pushing out broadband to areas at a fairly hefty rate, but since then (and coincidentally since the "For Sale" sign went up) there has been nothing.

Does any one know of any areas enabled by NTL recently? Or is NTL going back on its promise that the sale would not effect the rollout of broadband.

daramullally

There was a thread about this recently - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=244629

Aquos76

Big announcement planned for the 26th April down here in Waterford. Supposely the mayor is doing a press conference to announce the lauch of Broadband services in Waterford by NTL on that day.

Adey2002

daramullally wrote:

There was a thread about this recently - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=244629

That thread is about upgrading current customers speed, not rolling out other areas.

daramullally

Adey2002 wrote:

That thread is about upgrading current customers speed, not rolling out other areas.

Read it again. They are rolling out in Galway. Up to now it has only been available in parts of Dublin. It also mentions new speeds.

Infini

Also check the attached file as well.

bk

Well my area in D9 was upgraded a few weeks ago, I ordered NTL almost straight away and I have 1.5mb right now.

Tech Pete

My area also got upgraded.
Scholarstown in Knocklyon

1.5 MB sweeeeet

Gator

Did I not hear a rumour that the reason for Ntl's sudden stop on broadband was that one of their customers houses caught fire due to problems with their routers???

oneweb

Zooie wrote:

Did I not hear a rumour that the reason for Ntl's sudden stop on broadband was that one of their customers houses caught fire due to problems with their routers???

I'd be as likely to believe that as I am to believe that my dog caught gay when we got NTL.

It's completely unlikely and if it were, they wouldn't stop the rollout, they would change supplier.

cdebru

oneweb wrote:

I'd be as likely to believe that as I am to believe that my dog caught gay when we got NTL.

It's completely unlikely and if it were, they wouldn't stop the rollout, they would change supplier.

how gay did the dog get

aphex™

Zooie wrote:

Did I not hear a rumour that the reason for Ntl's sudden stop on broadband was that one of their customers houses caught fire due to problems with their routers???

I'm pretty sure that was their phone service.

chorus techy

Zooie wrote:

Did I not hear a rumour that the reason for Ntl's sudden stop on broadband was that one of their customers houses caught fire due to problems with their routers???

I think you are confusing this with the phone services, where they completely pulled out of the home phone market due to one of the VoIP boxes catching fire and burning a house down because it overheated. The broadband seems to be on hault due to the sale of ntl at the moment, as is speed increases.

carrotcake

it wasn't voip, just regular phone. the box was used for tv, broadband and phone lines... i miss my box

FuzzyWuzzyWazza

me too....... with its wee little green light................ ah well, you know what does bug me about NTL though, when I signed up for BB with them I had to buy the modem myself!! suppose thats what I get for being a pioneer, hehehe

s_gr

bk wrote:

Well my area in D9 was upgraded a few weeks ago, I ordered NTL almost straight away and I have 1.5mb right now.

What areas of D9 have been upgraded?

CyberGhost

damn they will never come to D22

Anarchist

bk wrote:

Well my area in D9 was upgraded a few weeks ago, I ordered NTL almost straight away and I have 1.5mb right now.

What is your upload speed though?

bk

Originally Posted by s_gr
What areas of D9 have been upgraded?

Well I'm in the Charlemont estate, I'm not sure where else, but others have indicated that they where also upgraded, ring NTL and check.

Originally Posted by Anarchist
What is your upload speed though?

256kbps

Actually I plan on writing up a comparsion of NTL cable BB and Netsource (Eircom) 2mb RADSL in a few days as I had both for about a month.

CyberGhost

while we are at it,

can you ntl users please ping boards.ie and jolt.co.uk?

is there a ping differences between packages?

bk

CyberGhost wrote:

while we are at it,

can you ntl users please ping boards.ie and jolt.co.uk?

is there a ping differences between packages?

Both are around 40ms, I'll get the details when I get home.

It seems NTL don't pair in Ireland, therefore when pinging an Irish server it goes to the UK and then back to Ireland

Eircom has better pings.

JNive

lol, that would be major crappy lol. however with eircom, when im pinging a guy in scotland, its being router through the netherlands lol.

causal

ntl:750/128

The current date is: 25/04/2005
The current time is: 16:21:21.86


Pinging boards.ie [82.195.144.58] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.195.144.58: bytes=32 time=72ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.144.58: bytes=32 time=90ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.144.58: bytes=32 time=118ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.144.58: bytes=32 time=51ms TTL=49

Ping statistics for 82.195.144.58:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 51ms, Maximum = 118ms, Average = 82ms


Pinging jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=50
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=50
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=89ms TTL=50
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=50

Ping statistics for 82.133.85.65:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 27ms, Maximum = 89ms, Average = 43ms

Man that boards ping sucks more than space


causal

CaptainSparrow

C:\Documents and Settings>ping [url]www.boards.ie[/url]

Pinging [url]www.boards.ie[/url] [82.195.144.58] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.195.144.58: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=48
Reply from 82.195.144.58: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=48
Reply from 82.195.144.58: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=48
Reply from 82.195.144.58: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=48

Ping statistics for 82.195.144.58:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 39ms, Maximum = 45ms, Average = 41ms

C:\Documents and Settings>ping [url]www.jolt.co.uk[/url]

Pinging [url]www.jolt.co.uk[/url] [82.133.85.65] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=51
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=51
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=51
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=51

Ping statistics for 82.133.85.65:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 23ms, Maximum = 29ms, Average = 25ms

C:\Documents and Settings>

Boards is ok for me!

FuzzyWuzzyWazza

Got NTL 750/128

Pinging boards.ie [82.195.144.58] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.195.144.58: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=47
Reply from 82.195.144.58: bytes=32 time=143ms TTL=47
Reply from 82.195.144.58: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=47
Reply from 82.195.144.58: bytes=32 time=48ms TTL=47

Ping statistics for 82.195.144.58:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 42ms, Maximum = 143ms, Average = 69ms


Pinging jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=50
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=50
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=50
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=50

Ping statistics for 82.133.85.65:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 25ms, Maximum = 28ms, Average = 26ms

CyberGhost

Thanks guys!