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  • 11-11-2006 10:46pm
    #1
    RoadSweeper
    Registered Users Posts: 2,513 ✭✭✭


    Hello there, I'm a student living on parnell st. I'm looking to get braodband and not sure what to do or who to set up with.

    We have ntl digital and was wondering if ntl broadband is any use?
    also we would like to avoid getting a phone line if possible, so could any one reccommend a BB provider who is relatively cheap as we're students :(


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    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    NTl BB for €20 a month on top of what you pay is the best deal although its a 1 year contract with 3 months free and free connect so you pay €9x20 total .


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    RoadSweeper
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    are they any use? how does the BB work with NTL?


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    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    better than any other €180 for a year investment I can think of .


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    watty
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    It should work better soon than it does at the minute.


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    bk
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,718 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    RoadSweeper wrote:
    are they any use? how does the BB work with NTL?

    It comes in over the same cable that the TV comes in on. That is pretty much all there is to it.


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    cast_iron
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    watty wrote:
    It should work better soon than it does at the minute.
    Why is that Watty?


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    RoadSweeper
    Registered Users Posts: 2,513 ✭✭✭RoadSweeper


    okay i have the BB comin in on monday.
    There is 3 of us in the house, each with own laptop. I was wondering about the wireless router option and NTL BB?
    is the eircom 25 eur router compatable for this? like multi connections. 2 max i'd say.


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    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    bb from whom ?

    some may require "pppoe bridging" etc and some not.


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    Foxwood
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    RoadSweeper wrote:
    I was wondering about the wireless router option and NTL BB?
    is the eircom 25 eur router compatable for this? like multi connections. 2 max i'd say.
    The eircom router is an ADSL modem/router. You're not getting ADSL, you're getting NTL cable broadband.

    You can't use an ADSL router as a router on NTL cable broadband.


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    RoadSweeper
    Registered Users Posts: 2,513 ✭✭✭RoadSweeper


    thanks for the repiles
    so what router will i have to get?


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    Foxwood
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    RoadSweeper wrote:
    thanks for the repiles
    so what router will i have to get?
    One that isn't an ADSL router.

    The Linksys WRT54g cokes well recommended. I'm using a D-Link DI-624 and a D-Link DI-624.

    http://komplett.ie/k/kl.asp?bn=10282


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