Just a bit of research to see how things have moved on!

[Shockwave]

Ntl are ok but they try and bundle the satelite channels, the phone and internet together. I fucking hate the menu on Ntl's digital tv,it's just so slow. It's so bad that if I had it I'd have to write down the numbers to my fvourite channels.
Sky's menu is much faster, even though Sky are a bunch of bastards when you want anything off them.
For this reason my BB is with Pipex and the TV is with Sky and the Phone is with BT.

Probably it's costing more than it should but I save time waiting for the bloody satelite menus.
My BB is 2mb.

[DrewPee]

Totally agree shockwave - my package is all together - the bb is fantastic, the phone is reasonable but the cable tv is shite!
It is soooo slow and the order of the channels is crap!

DrewPee

[Shockwave]

Yeah, I couldn't work out if there was any logic behind their poxy tv menus at all. I'm glad it's not just me getting old.

[Clyde]

I agree with you both there that the interface is quite slow and as for the channel ordering its like they chose a lucky dip when they did the selection; as my parents have it. What I hate the most about NTL is that they sure love posting away like crazy their junk mail adverts. The latest one has an old age pensioner on the front which is sad. I've also had numerous letters from them saying they'll pay me a visit with one of their reps.

Im pretty pleased with Orange Broadband ( formerly known as Wanadoo \ Freeserve ) @ Ã,£17.99 a month for 8mb speed.

[Shockwave]

Someone should steal NTL's menu graphics and code an NTL fucktro.

[taj]

When I were a lad, we szlupped 148 hours on 1/2bit modem at work before we went home and downloaded  binary smoke signals over BT bored-band.