[Klug-general] Broadband in East Kent

[Michael. E. Rentell]

The comments on this topic have been interesting.

If I may add my 3-ha'porth?
I use NTL. I was dying to be offered the service, especially after every 
street in Folkestone was dug up for weeks-on-end some years ago putting 
in the ducting etc. Mud everywhere.
Eventually the offer came and I chose the 1Mbps service at £24.99 a month.
The reliability is pretty good and the speed matched the promise.
Since then they have doubled the speed for no increase in price 
(competition!) and that works too.
Now I have received an email promising me a further upgrade to 4Mbps 
download (and an increased upload speed to 400Kbps) which is more than 
adequate for my needs.
Glass cables are the future whilst the copper local loops are being 
pushed to their absolute limits - er I have no shares in NTL :-)
I believe most of the East Kent coastal area was cabled. Try the 
NTLWorld.com web-site and enter the exact postcode for the proposed 
address and they will respond immediately with either an offer or a 
turndown because the service isn't there yet.

Mike Rentell
in Folkestone