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Update 29-Aug-2014 – a software update to the Horizon box in the last couple of days seems to have solved some of these problems – see:UPC Ireland – Horizon Software Update Horizon is UPC’s premium TV offering, and has several advantages over other TV/DVR systems, such as: Ability to record up to 4 TV shows […]
It’s no more than a month since my NTL (UPC) broadband speed was doubled from 3 megabits to 6 megabits, and now I read that from July onwards the they’re increasing the downloads bandwidths again to 20 megabits for the €40 package, and 10 megabits for the €30 package; the one I have (see news […]
Seems that NTL (or rather UPC) are having a bit of trouble with servicing my area at the moment. On Friday evening the whole network went down for about two hours, cutting off both my TV and broadband signal. And then this evening the broadband internet disappeared for another couple of hours. I used to […]
Joy of joys! I now have broadband, and can waste time at a much faster speed than before. For the last six or seven months I’ve been making do with different wireless internet connections – all of which have been pretty flaky. With slow download speeds and dropped connections, its kind-of criminal that they sell […]
The farce continues with the NTL DVR installation. Following two failed installs on Monday and Tuesday this week, I was assured on Tuesday afternoon that a DVR would definitely be installed “first thing tomorrow morning” (Wednesday). Well it’s now Wednesday afternoon, and guess what? Yup, you got it. Nobody came, and the number of failed […]
You wouldn’t believe the amount of grief I’ve been experiencing from NTL (also known as UPC) over the last week or so. I called them a couple of weeks ago, to get my digital TV subscription moved from to my new address. And as part of the deal, I wanted to also order Broadband internet […]
