Insane NTL speeds

zilog_jones · 05-12-2005 4:08pm

Mine was Heanet ^_^
UL supposedly has like a 180Mb/s connection, but here I'm going through both the UL ITD's servers and the Electronic & Computer Engineering Department servers - I wouldn't be suprised if this computer lab is on the one 100 meg line. I've got better speeds in other parts of college...

Drapper · 05-12-2005 5:13pm

I'd put anthing on them upgrading soon, but to really kick the socks off Eircom and Magnet et al I'd have done it before Christmas ! all the family with thier new techie gadgets and gizzmos!

Anyway I'd recommend NTL over any ot the others! (and thats from a former IBB and Eircom user)

LFCFan · 05-12-2005 5:24pm

getting NTL installed on Saturday after I found out today they've finally upgraded our estate

No more Line Rental. Happy Days!!

ro2 · 05-12-2005 10:51pm

WizZard wrote:

That's Heanet. Has to be

I want...

No, it's work. My ntl modem doesn't have copper coming out of it

There's 400Mb of connectivity coming out of these:

Drapper wrote:

I'd put anthing on them upgrading soon, but to really kick the socks off Eircom and Magnet et al I'd have done it before Christmas ! all the family with thier new techie gadgets and gizzmos!

Anyway I'd recommend NTL over any ot the others! (and thats from a former IBB and Eircom user)

From this thread it looks like they have the infrastructure in place to do it whenever they want. I'm sure they'll stick it to Eircom before they do their upgrade.

ghostdancer · 05-12-2005 11:35pm

WizZard wrote:

That's Heanet. Has to be

I want...

:v:

don't we all?

i checked my college (dcu) connection earlier today when i saw this and it was 94mb down, 42up. if only i could find sites to take advantage of it!

paulm17781 · 06-12-2005 12:34am

ro2 wrote:

What's the NTL connection. Is it cat5 from the street? Where's the fiber?

CyberGhost · 06-12-2005 5:03am

LFCFan wrote:

getting NTL installed on Saturday after I found out today they've finally upgraded our estate No more Line Rental. Happy Days!!

What area?

I got a leaflet from ntl saying at the end of the December whole Dublin will be enabled.

ro2 · 06-12-2005 12:42pm

paulm17781 wrote:

What's the NTL connection. Is it cat5 from the street? Where's the fiber?

It's fiber all the way to the data centre...

delly · 06-12-2005 1:12pm

ro2 wrote:

It's fiber all the way to the data centre...

Couch Potato · 06-12-2005 1:20pm

Spoke with Sales this morning - there are definitely going to be a 10meg package in Jan - obvously wouldn't give any prices.

bk · 06-12-2005 1:22pm

CyberGhost wrote:

I got a leaflet from ntl saying at the end of the December whole Dublin will be enabled.

Really?? Any chance of scanning or taking a picture of that flyer and posting it.

It actually sort of jives with a theory I have that UPC are getting ready to rebrand and have a big rollout and ad campaign to launch the new company.

koneko · 06-12-2005 1:25pm

The price in the UK didn't go up so I presume it won't here:

http://www.home.ntl.com/icat/broadband
(NTL's UK page)

I checked their page 2 days ago and the same price was listed (£37.99) for the 3MB package. They changed their site yesterday. That price is more than the 3MB costs here though, so I'm not sure what's going on. The automatically update 3MB customers to 10MB according to their site.
Specs say 512k up and 75GB cap.

I'm getting NTL this week, byebye Eircom!

mollser · 06-12-2005 2:11pm

koneko wrote:

The price in the UK didn't go up so I presume it won't here:

http://www.home.ntl.com/icat/broadband
(NTL's UK page)

I checked their page 2 days ago and the same price was listed (£37.99) for the 3MB package. They changed their site yesterday. That price is more than the 3MB costs here though, so I'm not sure what's going on. The automatically update 3MB customers to 10MB according to their site.
Specs say 512k up and 75GB cap.

hmm, they don't appear to have upgraded either the 1 or 2 mb packages int he UK though - seems strange??

And the 1mb only has a d/l limit of 3gb :eek: , and is more expensive than here?? crikey, rip off uk!

bk · 06-12-2005 2:31pm

koneko wrote:

I checked their page 2 days ago and the same price was listed (£37.99) for the 3MB package. They changed their site yesterday. That price is more than the 3MB costs here though, so I'm not sure what's going on. The automatically update 3MB customers to 10MB according to their site.
Specs say 512k up and 75GB cap.

Yes, the price in the UK has been more expensive then Ireland for the last year or so. For instance it was:

3m/300k NTL:Ireland = €45
3m/300k NTL:UK = ~ €56
3m/512k Chorus (as of Friday) = €45

So we have actually been ahead of the UK!!

NTL:UK will be dropping the price of their new 10mb product to £34.99 (~ €51.50) in January.

Also upgrades for the 1m and 2m NTL:UK products will also be coming in January.

However, note, NTL:Ireland is no longer part of NTL (soon to be Virgin), it is now owned by Liberty Global, who also own Chorus and will be soon merging the two companies and renaming them UPC Ireland. So you can't look at the UK anymore, we won't necessarily get the same speeds or prices as the UK anymore.

However there are strong rumours that UPC will be giving us 10m in January anyway.

koneko · 06-12-2005 2:34pm

True, forgot about that merger, but things are still looking up.

Moving away from Eircom alone is enough of a celebration right now

(Damn latency problems)

christophicus · 06-12-2005 3:16pm

my mother is still pussyfooting around about ntl,she hasnt done anything towards getting ntl,im getting really pissed of now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

zuma · 06-12-2005 3:28pm

christophicus wrote:

my mother is still pussyfooting around about ntl,she hasnt done anything towards getting ntl,im getting really pissed of now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tell her you'll pay for half/all of it and then she wont have a problem!

christophicus · 06-12-2005 3:39pm

yeah but the only thing is then she will expext me to pay for it ,(and i dont have a job at the moment).and she is willing to pay for it,its justshe claims to be too busy to order it.(we are paying the same amount atm for line rental and or 60 hours plan from eircom,which is dialup by the way.

paulm17781 · 06-12-2005 4:32pm

christophicus wrote:

yeah but the only thing is then she will expext me to pay for it ,(and i dont have a job at the moment).and she is willing to pay for it,its justshe claims to be too busy to order it.(we are paying the same amount atm for line rental and or 60 hours plan from eircom,which is dialup by the way.

Why don't you order it, with her permission?

amby666 · 06-12-2005 4:39pm

Tell her it will save her money in the long run!

First 3 months free
Sign up to BlueFace
Port your Eircon No to Blueface
Cancel Eircon line (saves about €25 per month I think)
Drop down to NTL 1mb (will probably be upgraded by then) for €25
Blueface subscription for €9.99 covers yr calls for a lot less than Eircon call costs.
Only extra is some sort of ATA, which is a once off cost.
After that the dead money for line rental pays for NTL and the calls are much cheaper

CyberGhost · 06-12-2005 6:19pm

bk wrote:

Really?? Any chance of scanning or taking a picture of that flyer and posting it.

It actually sort of jives with a theory I have that UPC are getting ready to rebrand and have a big rollout and ad campaign to launch the new company.

I'm sorry bk, but I must have thrown it away, searched around, couldn't find it

But I remember well, it saying "We aim to have whole Dublin connected until the end of the December"

CyberGhost · 06-12-2005 6:36pm

christophicus wrote:

yeah but the only thing is then she will expext me to pay for it ,(and i dont have a job at the moment).and she is willing to pay for it,its justshe claims to be too busy to order it.(we are paying the same amount atm for line rental and or 60 hours plan from eircom,which is dialup by the way.

Get off your a** and get a job!

Wow look whose talking

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carrotcake · 06-12-2005 6:47pm

CyberGhost wrote:

"We aim to have whole Dublin connected until the end of the December"

i don't like the sounds of that!

bk · 06-12-2005 6:48pm

CyberGhost wrote:

I'm sorry bk, but I must have thrown it away, searched around, couldn't find it

Thanks for trying, it sounds good anyway.

CyberGhost · 06-12-2005 6:49pm

carrotcake wrote:

i don't like the sounds of that!

Actually I think they are working hard on it, and many many people who didn't have it before are getting connected. And they also did works on my street too.

stackeye · 06-12-2005 8:04pm

I would Love NTL but I cant get it, I live in Phibsboro, they seem to be a mad bunch of eggs, told us it will take years to get NTL digital - we had it installed the next month, they wouldn't install in for my neighbour untill he threatened to cut all the NTL cables running across his house - he got it installed the next week,

christophicus · 06-12-2005 8:28pm

hey Am i allowed to Order on her behalf?that would be so much easier.Amby666,we dont make many phonecalls from our landlines so iwe are getting a cheap pay as you go phone so that we can recieve calls.

I want to get a jod but there is nowhere i want to work!

bk · 06-12-2005 9:10pm

christophicus wrote:

hey Am i allowed to Order on her behalf?that would be so much easier.

Well technically no, but people do it all the time, I ordered it for my sister, no problem. Just don't let on anything.

christophicus wrote:

Amby666,we dont make many phonecalls from our landlines so iwe are getting a cheap pay as you go phone so that we can recieve calls.

But VoIP might be cheaper, get rid of the Eircom phone line (safe €24 per month line rental) and sign up for VoIP, for just €10 a month you get 300 minutes of free calls.

christophicus wrote:

I want to get a jod but there is nowhere i want to work!

Your young, work is just a way to get money to buy and do more fun things. It will also help with future job applications when you leave school/college.

One of the jobs I had in school was a shelf packer in Roches Stores, it wasn't anything amazing, but it was actually quiet good fun, with a good social atmosphere and a few bob to spend in the pub

Drapper · 07-12-2005 10:27am

stackeye wrote:

I would Love NTL but I cant get it, I live in Phibsboro, they seem to be a mad bunch of eggs, told us it will take years to get NTL digital - we had it installed the next month, they wouldn't install in for my neighbour untill he threatened to cut all the NTL cables running across his house - he got it installed the next week,

Thats a typical NTL story! you need to almost call them on a weekly basis as areas are coming live the whole time ! ie. Tyrellstown was a big no last week and now its live! D15 had a very poor service but no its A1 ! they are relaying coax all over the place and improving signal strength!

THE ARE PLANNING BROADBAND DOMINATION !!! ROLL ON 10 mb

MAGNET BE WARNED YOUR €240 for 24mb will look ridiculous

even with Xbox subscription

LeperKing · 07-12-2005 11:39am

CyberGhost wrote:

I'm sorry bk, but I must have thrown it away, searched around, couldn't find it

But I remember well, it saying "We aim to have whole Dublin connected until the end of the December"

So far CyberGhost is the only person who has said that a flyer like that exists. I'd love it to be true, but no one else has posted anything about flyers promising broadband for all of dublin by the new year.

Seems too good to be true...:(

Has anyone else seen flyers like the ones CyberGhost describes?

LK

Insane NTL speeds

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