Xbox live premium

chris1234 · 03-03-2005, 02:12

hi all i got quoted on xbox live from NTL that it wud be 5 pound extra a month .. so i though o yeh il have that.. i rung techinal support today and they kept me waiting 15 minutes finally some1 answers me.. he says u have to upgrade ur package b4 u use xbox live im like wtf im on 1.5meg? then he says am sorry i made a mistake ur on the highest package available 37.99 and if u have xbox live you will be paying 39.99 prove me if im wrong but thats 2 quid more not 5.. umm can any1 tell me if the prices have changed

kind regards chris

im on xbox live now anyways... halo2 rockz my id if u wanna play and kick my butt is EarlyArcAngel

Chris W · 03-03-2005, 02:15

the ntl 1.5meg xbox package is Ã‚Â£39.99 per month- Ã‚Â£2 extra. It used to be Ã‚Â£5 extra, but when the standard broadband prices were increased (last year i think...) the console package prices were dropped form Ã‚Â£5 extra to Ã‚Â£2 extra

chris1234 · 03-03-2005, 02:16

ahhh that explains it then he told me all wrong .. 37.99 for 1.5meg 2 pound for xbox live..

when i put the phone down he might have realised

Daniel davies · 03-03-2005, 07:40

but what do you get for the extra 2 quid ?????

I left NTL because 37.99 is way to much for BB, moved to BT and pay 26.99 for 1MB, being upgraded to 2MB FOC.

I can host 12 players on RS black arrow but when I had NTL, I could only hold 8. upload was **** on NTL.

zoombini · 03-03-2005, 08:08

Nothing more than a 2 port router thingy & some technical support should something go wrong with it.

When it was Ã‚Â£5 extra it was worth buying your own router instead, however now it's just much better to scrap the xbox service after a while & say you no longer want it.

Not sure if you have to send back the router or what?

03-03-2005, 11:12

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Originally Posted by zoombini

Not sure if you have to send back the router or what?

It's not a router, just a switch. When I got the XBL service I asked them about whether it should be returned to NTL if I stop using the service, I was told that I didn`t have to return it, but we know what NTL's accuracy is like. But given that it is just a switch it isn`t worth much anyway.

chris1234 · 03-03-2005, 12:08

what you guys talking about all u need is an ethernet wire,, plug it into ur sacm if ur using 1 and usb into pc .. internet works same time as xbox live all they do is let another ip be controlled for ur xbox. no routers nout... as i sed b4 the sacm modem acts like a mini router with its own hub built in!

BTW

i use a direct connection ethernet cable not the cross over 1

thanks chris

glennn · 03-03-2005, 12:13

hmmm, so we have to tell ntl that we have xbox live?

what would/can they do if say I hadn't told em?

chris1234 · 03-03-2005, 12:23

depends what you mean?

you try to connect w/o there say so and you will get DNS problems bad style unless u spoof it but that dont work for every1.
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Originally Posted by glennn

hmmm, so we have to tell ntl that we have xbox live?

what would/can they do if say I hadn't told em?

do you mean your already on xbox live? or not

zoombini · 03-03-2005, 12:39

You can connect to them without problems easily enough.

What DNS problems are you referring to Chris?
And what spoofing? do you mean the MAC address of the Xbox matching that of the PC?

chris1234 · 03-03-2005, 13:57

the DNS probels i am refering to is the DHCP server that you cant connect to unless you spoof ur mac address but i tried al lthis and no joy so i rung them up and they put me on live.. and i use the net at same time as well as the xbox live through sacm usb into pc ethernet into sacm into xbox... simple as

chris

zoombini · 03-03-2005, 14:32

Okidoki.

chris1234 · 03-03-2005, 16:00

glennn · 03-03-2005, 17:19

to be perfectly honest i dont know what you mean by spoofing em, all i have done is plug my xbox into my router and sign up for xbox live.

as far as i can see i have had no problems and many happy hours playing project gotham 2.

chris1234 · 03-03-2005, 18:23

Spoof ur mac address from ur pc into ur xbox which i think means when u do this NTL will think ur modem is comunicating with ur pc when it is actually communicating with the xbox.

chris