NTL offers Xbox service to undercut BT Openworld

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MICROSOFT AND NTL in the UK have teamed up to offer a Broadband+Console service – an extra fiver a month on your 600K or 1MB broadband service if you have one from the provider. The service claims that you can have your computer and Xbox connected to the Internet at the same time. Obviously the Xbox is a cut down computer too.

And NTL is also offering to give you a free upgrade worth £30 for signups before the 28th of February this year. In its blurb, NTL says that home broadband+console 600K service will cost £213 cheaper than going down the BT Openwoe route.

Although monthly subscriptions are the same at thirty quid, BT charges you 100 quid for a routing device, while it also charges 10 quid for a phone line, per month. This, then, means either war, or that BT Openworld will slash its costs. OK, then, it's war.

That means, claims NTL, that the first year cost for NTL is £360 while with BT the first year service – without Xbox is £572.88.

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(1 reply) #1 altontowersmania on 22 Jan 2003 - 12:04

Why do you want BT?? Telewest offer the cheapest and best quality broadband available in the UK. To connect your pc and xbox together on any broadband service, simply by a hub, there cheap and thats it! And you save £5 a month!

#1.1 LiGhTfast on 22 Jan 2003 - 12:43

how is by cheaper and better than ntl? this £5 a optional, i use a router so i dont need this... its for suckers who dont know how to network

#2 altontowersmania on 22 Jan 2003 - 12:04

(2 replies) #3 ArcticFox on 22 Jan 2003 - 12:31

erm most of my mates are on Blueblunder and they have major problems with it.... My NTL Home 600k connection is stable as anything, its faster than Blueblunders standard connection, never gone down, never been slow, always there when i want it, and altho not officially supported i run Connection Sharing for 2 other PCs through a hub, il ljust connect my ps2/xbox through hub

#3.1 Thycide on 22 Jan 2003 - 13:02

[neoquote=#3.0 by ArcticFox]erm most of my mates are on Blueblunder and they have major problems with it.... My NTL Home 600k connection is stable as anything, its faster than Blueblunders standard connection, never gone down, never been slow, always there when i want it, and altho not officially supported i run Connection Sharing for 2 other PCs through a hub, il ljust connect my ps2/xbox through hub[/neoquote] I'm on BlueYonder, had it for a year and a half now, also had it upgraded a while ago to the 1meg service and I never have any problems on it. I even run my own personal website, FTP and Exchange server behind my Cable connection with Outlook Web Access. There are many usefull website out there that can solve alot of problems f a user takes time to go through them, however I guess I was one of the lucky ones that has never had an outage or dropped/cut connection for the past 1 1/2 years with BlueYonder. I actually swear by it so much that I got three of my mates signed up and they never have any problems either. Basically, not everyone has problems with a service, you really shouldn' bash it until you've at least tried it

Peace

#3.2 ArcticFox on 22 Jan 2003 - 14:30

[neoquote=#3.1 by Thycide]I'm on BlueYonder, had it for a year and a half now, also had it upgraded a while ago to the 1meg service and I never have any problems on it. I even run my own personal website, FTP and Exchange server behind my Cable connection with Outlook Web Access. There are many usefull website out there that can solve alot of problems f a user takes time to go through them, however I guess I was one of the lucky ones that has never had an outage or dropped/cut connection for the past 1 1/2 years with BlueYonder. I actually swear by it so much that I got three of my mates signed up and they never have any problems either. Basically, not everyone has problems with a service, you really shouldn' bash it until you've at least tried it

Peace[/neoquote] I have as a matter of fact, my cousin used to have it before he moved, and from my experience its always been shite, fair enough yours works fine, but at least 10 of my mates use it and have problems

#4 daveS on 22 Jan 2003 - 14:04

Me either ... my connections been with me for over 2 years and upgraded to 1mb and its been fine .. was teething troubles when i first got it but fine ever since

(1 reply) #5 velocity3k on 22 Jan 2003 - 14:22

Blueyonder is the best and cheapest option for BB in the UK, subscribe to their TV or Phone service and it's only £35 for 1mb cable, which is a lot cheaper than many other 1mb ADSL or DSL connections in the UK. I personally have had no problems what so ever with the service, never had a stability issue and has never gone down on me. Plus you don't need to pay an extra £5 to put your Xbox Online, simply use 2 NIC's or a hub, it is that simple.

#5.1 LiGhTfast on 22 Jan 2003 - 15:10

you dont need to pay £5 thats only if you havent a clue how to network and need someone to do it for you

#6 scottyman on 22 Jan 2003 - 15:13

well, gotta say it's great on telewest - haven't tried it on ntl (but it can't be too bad) and Openwoe have managed to get everyone completely confused and are blatantly lying to their customers about what is actually required (they even provided completely the wrong kit to a guy in my office, and gave him to wrong instructions to configure it)

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