Telewest 2mbs Broadband Advice

thunderbird*1 · 01-01-2007, 20:02

Hi everyone & Happy New Year !

Thanks for all the welcoming messages. We need some general cable advice; since 2002 we have used Force9 on dial up. My Son & I just email, shop, browse, very little downloading. We are considering taking up Telewests 2 mbs broadband @ Â£9.99 per month offer for 12m & donâ€™t really want to pay no more than Â£15 approx & no cap. Most of the non cable ISPâ€™s have mixed/poor reviews around Â£15. We have checked out ISPreview & Telewestâ€™s scores are good overall.
Please can members give general feedback on Telewestâ€™s 2 mbs, we are from the Ossett area in Wakefield.

Regards Sean & James

Darrenp · 02-01-2007, 00:24

I use the 2 m/bit service and have had no problems with it.

Only been on it 2 months but so far so good.

thunderbird*1 · 02-01-2007, 14:30

Thanks for reply

Gadgie · 23-01-2007, 20:05

I have been on Telewest 2Meg for over a year now, and now paying Â£18 a month for it. The service has been good as well as reliable, but the back up when things go wrong had not always been good? (put through to someone in India who cant even understand us)
I have just read the ISPs lists and for Â£14.99 a month I could get 8Meg from Virgin, so as soon as the take over comes, I will be better off financially as well as have a 4X faster connection.

Nikesh · 23-01-2007, 20:11

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Originally Posted by Gadgie

8Meg from Virgin

This is 'up to' 8mb and only has a 6GB monthly download limit.

Zee · 23-01-2007, 20:12

If i was you, i'd pay the Â£9.99 to ntl:Telewest for that 12 months, then continue with them after the year is up and continue paying the full Â£18, that Â£3 extra a month will be so worth it, compared to those poor ADSL companies.

you need to pay a lot more to ADSL to recieve a good service and also cable, atleast in ntl areas is 20:1 unlike ADSL where its as low as 75:1

As for the Virgin thing, Virgin.net is ADSL with caps and an Up to service, ntl:Telewest (Soon to be Virgin Media) is cable, a lot more reliable...

Gadgie · 23-01-2007, 21:18

Yea! I am starting to find that out, going by what I have been reading in here. I never knew about this "up to" thing, or indeed about being capped?
At one stage I was D/Loading about 3 films a week as well as some music, so I suppose I have been lucky, and will stay put

Nikesh · 23-01-2007, 21:20

Good choice. Cable is definitely a lot better.

hooli · 29-01-2007, 19:05

I would say it depends on the area you are in. I am in the EH11 area of Edinburgh and this section of the network is overloaded with 10mb users and the contention is very high. Currently I am downloading slower than a 512k connection and that is from Telewests servers.

Maybe worth saying to Telewest, do you have any contention issues in the area. If they say no then take a note of their name and where they are based. You can then use it against them later on.

Gadgie · 30-01-2007, 20:24

Well after me praising Telewest for their great internet service, I had to do a speed check tonight as my computer was running s.l.o.w?
Turn out I was getting 157 Kps and yet I am paying for 2Meg? That is the first time this has happened to me, but according to folk I have spoken to about it, I have just been lucky, up until now

What was that they said about folk getting 100% of the bandwith they are paying for.................

cybernetic_tiger · 30-01-2007, 22:34

There is currently an MSO affecting internet access speeds nationally, this is what is causing your slow connectivity tonight. This is due to a fibre break on the core network which is currently being looked into.

Gadgie · 31-01-2007, 18:45

Well thanks for the information into the reason for it, I was told by some bloke in India that it was my "Firewall" that was causing the slow speed?

Its running a lot better tonight

glendvd · 02-02-2007, 14:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by thunderbird*1

Hi everyone & Happy New Year !

Thanks for all the welcoming messages. We need some general cable advice; since 2002 we have used Force9 on dial up. My Son & I just email, shop, browse, very little downloading. We are considering taking up Telewests 2 mbs broadband @ Â£9.99 per month offer for 12m & donâ€™t really want to pay no more than Â£15 approx & no cap. Most of the non cable ISPâ€™s have mixed/poor reviews around Â£15. We have checked out ISPreview & Telewestâ€™s scores are good overall.
Please can members give general feedback on Telewestâ€™s 2 mbs, we are from the Ossett area in Wakefield.

Regards Sean & James

You should absolutely sign up to the telewest 2mb broadband pack. I've been using it a few months now and it's lightning quick. However I have a friend who uses the AOL dial up broadband on 2mb and I've seen it and it is really, really slow. So what I'm saying is using cable broadband is the only way to go. I had the option to get free sky broadband but I won't touch any other broadband now except for cable, even though I have to pay for it and I could've had sky's for free. It's worth the money to have cable boradband.