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That's if no-one has seen it & it wasn't covered exactly in the thread the other day...

Hello

That's expensive. I can't find the details of how much per hour / minute it is after you have used your 75?

Steve.

What a rip off :eek:. surely no one is going to take up this serice? :confused:

Steve - I have HH and pay 2xlocal call charges when using the 128K service. i.e it's then using both 'phone lines. (With BTOpenworld anyway). I rarely use the 128K esxcept when downloading something fairly large. But I'd guess that Midband would be similar as the other costs are identical to HH.

Don't think I'll *upgrade* ...

Dave

PS: went for HH 'cos ADSL doesn't work at my house (but it does at several neighbours who I know for a fact are actually furthur from the exchange than me!!) and I needed two 'phone lines....

It's a shame they don't introduce IDSL (ISDN DSL) which combines the two B channels and D signalling channel of an ISDN2 circuit to give you an IDSL connection of 144K - but I guess that would kill ISDN stone dead and ISDN is something that BT makes a lot of money out of.

Chris

Strange, 'cos they don't make bundles out of HH...

The official rhetoric mentions that the £35 includes two phone lines (which it does, by definition). I pay NTL £48.49 per month for two phone lines and 600 kbit/s broadband. IIRC the 128 kbit/s (now 160 kbit/s) cable service is 16.99 so for two phone lines + broadband that would be £40.49 per month.

Of course the two key differentiators are:
1) I can use both phone lines and the cable modem if I choose
2) I actually need and want two phone lines.

If you only want one phone line and net access, it doesn't look such great value :(

Carl

YOU can also have an "always on" connection with no extra charge after a certain amount of hours :rolleyes:

That's the bit I'm p1$$ed about 'cos I reckon there's 720 hours roughly in a month & even 160 hrs a month @ a very conservative business rate of 20 days & 8 hrs in a working month - means that I/wifey can't work from home full time as we'd like to :(

I can live with 64/128k throughput as its workable with all my VPN stuff (128 obviously better than 64) but its that maximum hours bit.

You're right, NTL broadband isn't "time limited" but it is now bandwidth-limited (you get kicked off if you exceed 1GB of traffic for three consecutive days in a 14 day period).

Well, with VPN, email & CS, I'd be lucky to hit that limit!

Hoping my co will buy me a leased line at some point or that my community win their EEDA Broadband Competition that we've entered for ;)

How far is your local exchange from the trigger threshold, or is it a question of distance?

AFAIK the trigger threshold has recently been lowered and the distance limits increased.

Well, my local town is nowhere near trigger & my exchange has about 30 people registered...