Cable TV in our street but no broadband why?

mrs doyle

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Mar 8, 2002, 9:10:58 PM3/8/02

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Until I did the postcode check, I just assumed that if a street was cabled
up for CATV then broadband was available too. No such luck, can anyone
explain why this is?
tia

Vander Bin

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Mar 9, 2002, 1:11:03 AM3/9/02

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Are you being serious?

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Matt Martin

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Mar 9, 2002, 3:24:10 AM3/9/02

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"mrs doyle" <m...@doyle.com> wrote in message
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It depends - You might be in a CableTime area... this cannot YET support a
cable modem AFAIK

HTH?

Alastair Smeaton

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Mar 9, 2002, 3:41:52 AM3/9/02

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Broadband thru adsl comes thru your phoneline - broadband thru cable
comes thru cable..

I kow of no reason why if u can have a cable line, you cant get cable
broadband.

krodgnik

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Mar 9, 2002, 4:04:01 AM3/9/02

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> Broadband thru adsl comes thru your phoneline - broadband thru cable
> comes thru cable..
>
> I kow of no reason why if u can have a cable line, you cant get cable
> broadband.

Not everyone with a phoneline can get adsl broadband

Not everyone with a cable line can get cable broadband

Bowman

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Mar 9, 2002, 4:59:11 AM3/9/02

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"Alastair Smeaton" <a...@smeatona.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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Tell that to NTL then. They put cable down my whole street several years
ago, and my neighbour has had cable tv and phone with them since then, but
according to NTL cm's aren't available here yet. That's why I went the adsl
route.

Take it easy

Bowman

Alex Brown

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Mar 9, 2002, 5:00:29 AM3/9/02

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Our engineers are working on a way to do this [it's in feasibility].
Initial proposals look encouraging. Will try and get some news for the
monthly service update we post to the BY newsgroups.

Alex

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Alan LeHun

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Mar 9, 2002, 7:08:17 AM3/9/02

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In article <ckij8uooq77ahvho3...@4ax.com>,
a...@smeatona.freeserve.co.uk says...

> I kow of no reason why if u can have a cable line, you cant get cable
> broadband.
>

If all the bandwidth of the specific cable is being used by television,
what are internet users going to use?

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Alan LeHun

PURE

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Mar 9, 2002, 12:29:10 PM3/9/02

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>Tell that to NTL then. They put cable down my whole street several years
>ago, and my neighbour has had cable tv and phone with them since then, but
>according to NTL cm's aren't available here yet. That's why I went the adsl
>route.

Same with me, i've had cable TV for nearly 3 years now, but still cant get CM.
ever though Eurobell (the suppiler) have recently changed their name to telwest
broadband, but cant deliver broadboand until the summer at the earliest.

PURE
pure by name, pure by game!

Jeff

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Mar 9, 2002, 4:10:31 PM3/9/02

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> > "mrs doyle" <m...@doyle.com> wrote in message
> > news:101563970...@eos.uk.clara.net...
> > > Until I did the postcode check, I just assumed that if a street was
cabled
> > > up for CATV then broadband was available too. No such luck, can anyone
> > > explain why this is?

Hi - Postcode checker does not work - you have to give them 30+ minutes of
your life and speak to customer services - my postcode comes back non
broadband but after signing for adsl and seeing the 1meg announcment I
phoned to slag them for rolling out 1meg when I can't even get 512k - Been
available for over a year she said - do you want 112k, 512k, or wait a month
for 1meg (grrrrrrr)
Needless to say cable box will be returned in a number of small plastic bags
ps filling in the form to register your interest doesn't work either

Regards Jeff

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