Worth changing from BT dsl to Telewest/NTL 10meg?

Soldato
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I was checking out telewest's deals and found I can save money if we changed over to their cable service. We are currently on Bt 2meg adsl and our bills always come out at around £50+

Im very tempted to get cable setup, but is it anygood? it will also mean my wireless router setup would become defunct aswell. What hardware do telewest use?
 
Soldato
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I'd do it. I have had both Telewest and NTL and I also have ADSL - cable, in my opinion, is far superior. My cable pings are awesome too - this is from pinging bbc.co.uk and I get similar results to other UK servers, like Jolt:

Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=118
Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=118
Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=118
Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=118

However, cable varies. Some areas are great whereas people in other areas don't seem to get the speeds they should. Might be worth doing a little bit of investigation to find out what it's like in your area.

Telewest's cable modems have a USB and an Ethernet interface. Of course, you'll want to use the Ethernet so that means you'll need a new router which has an Ethernet WAN interface on it - there's plenty to choose from.
 
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