Broadband ... AOL ... NTL ....

[brockenspectre]

Hi all

Having resisted broadband until now I have finally succombed (having become weary of how slow my home internet connection is). I called AOL, which has been my ISP for the past 6 years, and am getting a preferential first year rate plus free modem and they are arranging for an NTL engineer to call to install the broadband connection in two weeks' time. So far so good.

I have now received a letter from NTL welcoming me to its Broadband service - no mention of AOL.

Now I need help in understanding the "process" of broadband. How does a broadband connection work - as opposed to my dialup one - and will I be incurring NTL charges in addition to paying for the optimised (allegedly!) AOL service?

I feel a real dunce!

Other threads have mentioned needing filters ... what are they? where and how are they installed? and ... how can one set a dialup modem (for faxes) to work with a broadband modem ... does it just plug in?

Sorry for the basic questions and of course if this has all been covered in another thread that I didn't find, please just point me to it!

Thanks.