Broadband

[Stephenc97]

Ok Ive had NTL Broadband for a year now, (ISDN) and its been working fine, since Ive had an upgrade last month, I download Movies/Videos off a progral called mIRC and when I put that to download overnight, Ive seen im disconnected. It can even disconnect me after 3 minutes, 3 Hours, or 4 Hours, mwhenever it decides too, Its not just when im downloading, but just surfing the net, it just knocks off and I have to restart my computer, Its only since my upgrade, why is it doing this? Broadband shouldnt dsconnect me, a local technician who upgraded my computer said its NTL, I Do not believe him, as its only been doing it since the upgrade, is there anything I can do?

[jeex]

upgrade? what did you upgrade to?

isdn is the same as dial up, except the speeds are faster, right? you still have to dial in and its d/a/d, right?

do you have call waiting on your phone? if someone calls and it beeps in, that could be knackering (euroword for your consideration) your connection..

you might try calling NTL and asking them whats up..

[Stephenc97]

do you even know what Broadband is mate? How do I dial to the net?

[VCDHunter]

do you even know what Broadband is mate? How do I dial to the net?

He knows what broadband is - but you don't specify what package your on. I'm on broadband too but not what you have from NTL as I'm on ADSL not cable.

Jeex - I don't known but I think he means he has a cable connection rather than ISDN. I maybe wrong though.

[RabidDog]

NTL is cable only.. and they are known to be Muslim (shi-ite).

[Craig Tucker]

NTL is cable only.. and they are known to be Muslim (shi-ite).

I have found the Broadband cable service from NTL to be very good and competitive for £24.99 a month for 600K. The Cable TV service on the other hand is another story and is indeed shite. I will be moving to a sky dish for this in the future. Have no complaints about the broadband though.

[Stephenc97]

[quote="VCDHunter"]

He knows what broadband is - but you don't specify what package your on. I'm on broadband too but not what you have from NTL as I'm on ADSL not cable.

Jeex - I don't known but I think he means he has a cable connection rather than ISDN. I maybe wrong though.

Dont jip

[cjb1118]

I think I understand;

I have NTL 150k, which is ISDN speed (ish)

And about mIRC, it disconnects me too, really annoying when you've Q'd for ages .

[Stephenc97]

its only been happeneing to me since ive upgraded my computer, and yeah, mines 150k, I get d/c if im playing a game online to. really pissing me off.

[iooi]

its only been happeneing to me since ive upgraded my computer, and yeah, mines 150k, I get d/c if im playing a game online to. really pissing me off.

And the upgrades were ??????????????????????

So you had the NTL 150k service before u upgraded and it worked OK, since the upgrade its not working right ?
Sounds a lot like a setting is wrong....

As a point of interest 150k is midband

[jeex]

do you even know what Broadband is mate? How do I dial to the net?

so do you have ISDN or ISDN speeds with your "broadband"?

[Craig Tucker]

do you even know what Broadband is mate? How do I dial to the net?

so do you have ISDN or ISDN speeds with your "broadband"?

NTL does not do an ISDN service , their broadband service is cable.

[jeex]

Ok Ive had NTL Broadband for a year now, (ISDN) and its been working fine, since Ive had an upgrade last month

i wonder where that came from then?

i'm not european, so i'm no familiar with what NTL offers (or even what NTL is an acronym for), so when this 'tard tells me something that is wrong to begin with, then giving a wrong answer is no fault of my own..

thanks for clearing that up Craig (meant in a non-******* way, just incase )

[Will Hay]

[quote="Stephenc97"]

He knows what broadband is - but you don't specify what package your on. I'm on broadband too but not what you have from NTL as I'm on ADSL not cable.

Jeex - I don't known but I think he means he has a cable connection rather than ISDN. I maybe wrong though.

Dont jip

What does 'don't jip' mean?
Will Hay

[tgpo]

What does 'don't jip' mean?

jip:

Opps I just click the Submit button without finishing my message

[andyp1]

NTL Broadband 600k is what I have .
I read somewhere that they put a cap on downloading at 1GB per day it's written in very small writing somewhere. Which really peed me of as it is sold as 'High Speed Always Connected' etc.
I think £24.99 a month is good value too.
I have never experienced any kind of cut off although it is in their literature somewhere.

I did have a time where I kept losing my connection on a regular basis , I called NTL out about 5 times , They fiddled and twiddled but to no avail . One day I took the cover off my PC ( the 1200 Duron machine I had at the time ) and was horrified to see the top of every Electriolytic Capacitor on the motherboard had burst or was bursting open.
The case didn't have much in the way of ventilation , there was a small fan on the processor and the one on the PSU that was it. The PC was only about a year old. I guess this is one problem having a broadband connection , you tend not to shut your PC down and get heat problems. My PC's now are in well ventilated cases with plenty of cooling fans 4 altogether in each.

I'll stop babbling.

150K from NTL is £17.99 600K is £24.99 Well worth the upgrade if you are Downloading overnight and online gaming etc.

[flaninacupboard]

they don't just cut the connection when you hit 1gb though, you just get moved onto their "user getting value for money and we don't like that" list. if you repeatedly offend they send you a nasty letter.

Never known a mobo do that before, weird.

[andyp1]

I think it was just down to a cheap crappy board and lack of cooling and ventilation .It way a Jetway.

[Craig Tucker]

I read somewhere that they put a cap on downloading at 1GB per day it's written in very small writing somewhere. Which really peed me of as it is sold as 'High Speed Always Connected' etc.

There is no cap

[andyp1]

Craig

Where did you get that info from. Is info like that available for anyone. I'd be interested to see something like that for mine.

Thanks

[Craig Tucker]

Its a piece of software called netlimiter. Very usefull, as well as displaying all your trafic stats it also allows you to place upload and download limits on all your individual programs.

[andyp1]

Thanks Ill check it out.