Our new house has NTL installed (as well as a new looking conventional aerial and a Digital Sky dish ). NTL have sent a letter to use offering phone, broadband and digital TV for

NTL won't be through the BT socket - there should already be an NTL phone socket if it's been installed previously. FWIW, I used NTL for a year (6 months rented and then 6 months in my own house) and couldn't get rid of it quick enough. When the service worked it worked well, but when it didn't (which was a lot!) it was a real pain and NTL customer services weren't that helpful. Very cheap, but you get what you pay for imho.

I since jacked it in, and went the Sky, ADSL, BT route. Yes it costs more, but it's never gone wrong in the 5 years I've had it

Chris

1. Mine all comes in via the one cable, which goes to a box which then has a socket for the phone and a socket for the cable box.

2. If they did do it this way, then no.

3. No.

4. Yeah, it's alright...only the 512k package has a limit on it, all the other packages are unlimited (though I suspect might be subject to "reasonable use" policy). Speeds seem fine.

5. The "family" pack has a lot more channels than digital terrestrial FreeView.

Rob.

Our new house has NTL installed (as well as a new looking conventional aerial and a Digital Sky dish ). NTL have sent a letter to use offering phone' date=' broadband and digital TV for £15 for 3 months then £30 for the rets of the year.

Our previous setup was BT for phone at £25+ a month then an ISP at £15 a month.

I have a few questions before going ahead.

1) Do all of NTL's services us the one cable or is the phone through the BT socket?

2) If it uses the BT socket do I pay BT line rental too?

3) Will I need a new Wireless router?

4) Whats NTL's broadband like for speed/limits etc.?

5) Are the NTL digital channels in the base package the same as terrestrial digital?[/quote']

1. Effectively its 1 cable. A Coax cable for the digital stuff with an analogue

telephone cable bonded to the side of it.

2. It's completely separate from BT. Your cable runs back to a box up the street

just like BT's only bigger as it deals with digital tv and broadband too. The cable

broadband service is run over the same cable as the digital tv. They just use a

splitter or in some cases piggyback your broadband off the tv's set top

box.

3. No, you connect your computer to the BB modem using a Cat5E patch

lead hooked into your computers Lan socket. USB conection is possible but a

complete disaster especially if you have other USB equipment attached.

4. I pay £25/month for 2M/bit connection. This is due to be upgraded free to

4M/bit (I think there's no cap on this upgraded package but if they introduce it

then it's generally 1Gb/day which isn't awful)

5. The base channel package is significantly better than freeview but i switched to

Sky because it was so unreliable. Shame really.

NTL also Broadcast about 30 local/national FM radio channels free through cable so you can hook up your hifi to this. It's a separate socket on the white NTL box behind your tv.

NTL also broadcast the 5 terrestrial channels on their cable. Add a splitter to the cable feeding your TV or BB modem and you can pipe the 5 channels out to your other tv's.

Although i had a few teething probs i've found NTL broadband very reliable for over 4 years now. The speed is always up to scratch (i check regularly).

Their phone services are fine and comparable to BT but with very low cost calls to mobiles at the weekend

Enough said about the TV service.

NTL also Broadcast about 30 local/national FM radio channels free through cable so you can hook up your hifi to this. It's a separate socket on the white NTL box behind your tv.

:rubchin: Never heard of this before - what sort of connection do I need to look for on the white box?

Rob.

:rubchin: Never heard of this before - what sort of connection do I need to look for on the white box?

Rob.

Just another socket on the bottom of the white box labelled FM. Some boxes don't have them i think though.

Just another socket on the bottom of the white box labelled FM. Some boxes don't have them i think though.

Hmm...had a look on my white wallbox, it doesn't have an FM socket, though it does have what looks like a "blanked" off one.

My cable box doesn't seem to have anything like that either, just a couple of SCART sockets, a USB socket, ethernet and RF in/out...

Will have to look into it, could be a way of getting a decent signal (which is the reason why I went with cable anyway, as t'hills block terrestrial signals).

Rob.

Hmm...had a look on my white wallbox' date=' it doesn't have an FM socket, though it does have what looks like a "blanked" off one.

My cable box doesn't seem to have anything like that either, just a couple of SCART sockets, a USB socket, ethernet and RF in/out...

Will have to look into it, could be a way of getting a decent signal (which is the reason why I went with cable anyway, as t'hills block terrestrial signals).

Rob.[/quote']

Sounds like your wall box doesnt have it. you need to get it changed. look out for an ntl van and throw a fitter a few quid to change it out. you could try asking ntl but as the service is free they might not bother helping you

Sounds like your wall box doesnt have it. you need to get it changed. look out for an ntl van and throw a fitter a few quid to change it out. you could try asking ntl but as the service is free they might not bother helping you

You're right - have found picture on t'interweb of a wallbox, and it's got two sockets out of the side, wheareas mine just has one and a blanking plate.

Have done some "unofficial" investigation, and apparently as the FM signal is part of an analogue transmission it isn't standard practice to include it on new digital installs (which mine was approx 3 years ago)...probably to reduce the requirement for the analogue signal.

Probably just as easy to split the audio off the SCART connection (am sure the old Pace boxes had proper RCA connectors :( ) and use the digital radio stations!

Rob.