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Old 31-05-2005, 20:43
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Originally Posted by blomster
I wonder if it doesnt start by midnight is it a breach of some kind of law ?since I signed up today on the basis that on the ntl website it said starting tuesday.
I'll put £50 on the table now it will have not started by midnight. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's still not up and running by tomorrow evening. As far as a breach of law goes, I doubt it would be worth it to recover 13p for a the loss of a day's BB streaming, but I do know where you are coming from.
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Old 31-05-2005, 20:43
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Originally Posted by blomster
I wonder if it doesnt start by midnight is it a breach of some kind of law ?since I signed up today on the basis that on the ntl website it said starting tuesday.
I very much doubt it, since they are providing all the other stuff they said they would. They are also offering it at a month's free trial, so it isn't like they have taken any money from you. Now had they said pay us a fiver and we will give you BB streaming today and they didn't, then that would be a whole new ball game.

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Old 31-05-2005, 20:45
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Originally Posted by Swipe
I'll put £50 on the table now it will have not started by midnight. I wouldn't be at all surprised if its still not up and running by tomorrow evening. As far as a breach of law goes, I doubt it would be worth it to recover 13p for a the loss of a day's BB streaming, but I do know here you are coming from.
Yoooohoooo Swipe, what's that over there?

*tried to pinch £50 from table since nobody will win it*
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Old 31-05-2005, 20:45
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Originally Posted by Mirage
Did you click on the purple words and see a grey page come up, then than opens another page with all the links to the streams you can watch? When the last page came up it's under channels.
I'm on the main 'Broadband Access All Areas' with the Big Brother screen...BBC News, BBC Sport etc is underneath it. The mouse cursor changes to a hand but when you click on it, nothing happens. I've got my settings to allow popups.
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Old 31-05-2005, 20:45
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Originally Posted by blomster
I wonder if it doesnt start by midnight is it a breach of some kind of law ?since I signed up today on the basis that on the ntl website it said starting tuesday.
Probably not. There will be a statement in the T&Cs that will say that they reserve the right to change the content at any time, and cannot be help responsible for loss of service, blah de blah..
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Old 31-05-2005, 20:47
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Originally Posted by StevenX
Probably not. There will be a statement in the T&Cs that will say that they reserve the right to change the content at any time, and cannot be help responsible for loss of service, blah de blah..


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Old 31-05-2005, 20:48
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Originally Posted by blomster
Purple words ?
Which page are you looking at ?
Im color blind you see
No idea if this will work, but here.


http://www.ntlworld.com/index.php?v=...sayhaveyoursay

Sigh, nothing is working on my puter today - now the url link thingy on here is refusing to work.
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Old 31-05-2005, 20:49
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Originally Posted by JTW
I'm on the main 'Broadband Access All Areas' with the Big Brother screen...BBC News, BBC Sport etc is underneath it. The mouse cursor changes to a hand but when you click on it, nothing happens. I've got my settings to allow popups.
Look to the left of the eye:

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Old 31-05-2005, 20:52
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Originally Posted by Mirage
Yoooohoooo Swipe, what's that over there?

*tried to pinch £50 from table since nobody will win it*
I never back losing bets (well apart from ntl that is )
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Old 31-05-2005, 20:55
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Sorry in advance for the bad grammar

When I signed up for ntl broadband they offered me 750k for 17.99 a month, I said no I will just have the 13.99 / m package, after trying to convince me to go for 750k and failed they then said oh since you are a new customer you can have the 1mb for 17.99 / m So i thought hmm sounds good to me so I signed up for it but now when I get my bill I have been charged extra for installation that I wasnt told about and am now recieving a monthly bill of £24.99
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Old 31-05-2005, 21:17
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Originally Posted by Swipe
Look to the left of the eye:

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Yes I've done that but nothing happens when I click it. I've also right-clicked and changed the Macromedia settings to Allow....zilch happens.

But thanks to you and also Mirage for trying to help.
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Old 31-05-2005, 21:32
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Yes thanks.
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Old 31-05-2005, 21:33
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Originally Posted by Swipe
Look to the left of the eye:

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is it not working when u click on the ringed area of the above screenshot?
... if thats the case nothing happens when i click mine either.. so it might not be ur settings
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Old 31-05-2005, 21:35
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Originally Posted by ashanti33
is it not working when u click on the ringed area of the above screenshot?
... if thats the case nothing happens when i click mine either.. so it might not be ur settings
It doesn't work no matter what I click. I've eve closed the whole thing down and tried again. NTL sucks bigtime.
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Old 31-05-2005, 21:42
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they sure do .... sorry i couldnt help
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Old 31-05-2005, 21:46
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they sure do .... sorry i couldnt help
No probs. Thanks anyway. I think it's gotta be down to NTL's sheer laziness and not our settings.
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Old 31-05-2005, 21:47
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Knowing NTL that Tuesday that's there now probably means next Tuesday.

Maybe Channel 4 and NTL have fell out with each other, hence there being no live streams to NTL customers (apart from E4), and NTL are just stringing its customers along hoping the issue will be resolved soon. - Just a thought.
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Old 31-05-2005, 22:06
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It's NEVER been on NTL Interactive, not that I can recall anyway. And they have the cheek to bring back the chicken game - that was from *BB4*!!!
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Old 01-06-2005, 02:30
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I have just gone to NTLWorld to see if there are any signs of the streaming yet and the sods have now taken off "coming Tuesday" and replaced it with "Coming Soon" where the Tuesday was.

They could string us along for days, weeks or anything now. I think if you really want the streaming to escape the frog, it is going to be far easier (and more expensive) to subscribe to C4 for it.
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Old 01-06-2005, 12:59
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... and it's still not bloody working. Crap.
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Old 01-06-2005, 14:19
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What the hell is wrong with this company? Can someone who is not at work call customer support and try to find out what is going please?
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Old 01-06-2005, 14:22
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Originally Posted by Swipe
What the hell is wrong with this company? Can someone who is not at work call customer support and try to find out what is going please?
And be put on hold for 30 mins? No, thanks.
I believe Mirage tried it yesterday only to be told they were still "testing" the service. Same reply one would get today, I bet.
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Old 01-06-2005, 14:23
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Let's go & kick off on cableforums or nthell or whatever they're called.
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Old 01-06-2005, 14:38
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does anyone know the number for ntl customer support?
ive only been on ntl for a week and when i phone i just get different options and am not sure which one applies...
thanks
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Old 01-06-2005, 14:46
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Originally Posted by ashanti33
does anyone know the number for ntl customer support?
ive only been on ntl for a week and when i phone i just get different options and am not sure which one applies...
thanks
0800 052 2000
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