[Klug-general] Broadband in East Kent

[Dan Attwood]

I use Telewest. It's £25 a month, but that's for a 4mps connection that,
touch wood, gives me no problems what so ever and is complelety un-capped.

You do however have to  have their phone and cable tv service as well.

Dan


On 24/05/06, Michael. E. Rentell <michael.rentell at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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