John,
Its good to hear from you again. Long time since.
Thanks a lot for your ML posting on this subject.
You should have seen Paul Kitching's posting by now which very nearly
answers all my questions and I'm sure you will have found as helpful
as I have.
Here are some responses I'd like to make to one or two of your points
as well...
> Hi John, in reply to your posting of today:
> I moved from BT to Cable&Wireless (now NTL). > > For everyone's information, I
>believe that NTL offers a service comprising:
> > 1. cable-TV
> > 2. Cable-telecoms
> > 3. 56k modem-compliant internet connection
> I only have experience of 1 and 2
> Yes. I moved from analogue to digital a few months back. There's an
> Access pack at around �10/month and various interest packs (e.g.
> music) but for �23/month there's a Maxi-pack which is all the
> non-premium channels (64 including five radio channels)
Please explain, John.
Do you mean you are using a digital connection to C&W/NTL from the
Amiga? If so, what equiipment is connected to the Amiga and how did
you do it? Not a conventional analogue modem, I assume, or have I
misunderstood you?
>
> Take care- under my digital TV service, there's free and unmetered
> email via the TV (doesn't tie up the phone line) but you really need
> an infra red remote keyboard (about �32 direct or from Dixons) for
> effective input. File attachements are a problem (you can view
> incoming images but there's no way of adding or stripping off files)
> and there is no address book feature.
I'm not looking for a tv-based internet connection. Its still the mig
that I want to use.
> Just using the phone service and genesis, my connect speeds are
> around 31-33k using a Pace Solo 56k. NTL say they can optimise the
> line for higher speeds but again I haven't taken the time to call
> them- the help llines are often VERY busy.
I'm puzzled by that. You said earlier that you had a digital
connection. I think I really MUST have misunderstood. Given tthat
you are using the Pace Solo, I am also surprised and disappointed that
you get such slow speeds. One of my [other] reasons (apart from
value-for-money) for considering NTL is that they have a brand new
cable in my road and I was rather assuming that I'd get stonking
speeds like true 56k. With my Worlonline phone service (uses BT
telephone lines), I can't get above about 41666, because the tel lines
are rather old and tired, with dirty signals. Why are your speeds so
slow, do you think, on a new fibre-optic telephone network?
Best regards, and thanks again for your answers to my original
posting,
John Wasilewski
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