Does anyone in NTL's UK-coverage area have any experience of switching from
BT or whatever to NTL's cable-service?
For everyone's information, I believe that NTL offers a service comprising:
1. cable-TV
2. Cable-telecoms
3. 56k modem-compliant internet connection
AFAIK,
1) the cable-TV service includes several free channels
and an option to subscribe to many more, but with
no obligation to take any of the subscription channels.
2) the cable-telecoms service is a telephone service
to replace BT (or whomever), with call charges
working out significantly less than BT's charges.
3) although NTL uses OPTICAL FIBRE cables, not
telephone wires, the sonic signals generated by
a modem and emitted as an analogue stream of
electrical impulses for feeding directly into the
telephone socket are converted by an NTL
box into an optical signal stream
(�20 or �40 instalation charge for the converter).
4) Internet access is 24-hour free and unmetered.
5) Apart from the initial installation charge, the whole
of the above can be had for �9.50 pm line
rental, which is less than BT even without the
unmetered Internet calls.
AFAIK also, the only snag is that one has to switch from BT to NTL as the
telephone service straight away (which is not a snag because NTL is cheaper
than BT) and there is a waiting list of several weeks before NTL's ISP
connection becomes available to new subscribers.
I already believe all of the above to be correct and I know already that it
works for pee cee users.
What I don't know is,
ARE THERE ANY MAJOR PROBLEMS FOR AMIGA USERS?
Has anyone out there connected to NTL's toll-free ISP connection using a
decent computer of the Amiga variety?
One minor problem I do envisage is having to use a pee cee to complete NTL's
initial ISP setup. What I am assuming is that, once it IS all set up, it
will simply be a case of transferring a few settings manually to the Amiga.
Can anyone tell me if this is so? Are there any other problems? Can they
be overcome?
Please help with this, someone...
John Wasilewski
Oxford and/or London
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