Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Technically ntl own Telewest so technically they are rolling it out....technically.



:D :p:

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Technically NTL do not own Telewest ........... yet! :)

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Nah, I think it was being called a 'merger' rather than a 'takeover', and I'm not so sure that the deal is 100% complete yet, either. All the same, the Beeb were wrong - and not for the first time, either. :)

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

it's a takeover not a merger. dont let orangebird catch you calling it anything else!
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nb. the BBC will probably refer it to a merger!

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

i can recall ntl stating that they were commited to offering faster speeds than bt & higher caps, in which case they are going to be in a race to roll out 10mb to all their customers. After all this is the info from the register about bt, BT wholesales 8mb service is due to be up & running by spring 2006. As BT has a far lager network than any other telco then all excuses from anyone else about manpower etc are to some extent lame

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

that was before they realised poor services at "cheep" prices were mroe profitable.
ntl are abuissness like any other while ever there making money out of us they couldent give a damn

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Anyone with half a braincell knows it's a takeover, and not a merger - sadly. Good on orangebird - I got fed-up of using the word 'merger'. :)

10mb speed and where it`s at?
 

Hi all!

Everyone is going on about NTL putting there 3mb line up to 10mb, what i wan to know is where can i find out when its going to happen in my area. I live in Portsmouth witch is in the south of england.

Can anyone help me?

Re: 10mb speed and where it`s at?
 

Can't find any news yet, but keep looking here:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cable/

News there is not bad at all.

Re: 10mb speed and where it`s at?
 

Can`t find it again on here but people have said they have got it and even one person posted a pic of it in action!

Re: 10mb speed and where it`s at?
 

That was Telewest, NTL speed increases - coming soon...

Re: 10mb speed and where it`s at?
 

Is that on NTL or on Telewest? Telewest are rolling out 10Mbs as we speak. AFIK NTL still have to start.

Re: 10mb speed and where it`s at?
 

But when and is there some website i can look at to see when my area is done?

Re: 10mb speed and where it`s at?
 

sadly im on ntl!

Re: 10mb speed and where it`s at?
 

That's NTL for you... The website will be 'coming soon', and the rollout 'shortly after that'... ;)

Re: 10mb speed and where it`s at?
 

I hate my upload speed! Take`s the micky!

Re: 10mb speed and where it`s at?
 

i hope so :erm:

Re: 10mb speed and where it`s at?
 

But when? Im dying to know.

Re: 10mb speed and where it`s at?
 

I'm sure if he knew he'd say.

I'm sure the people who do know aren't here and wouldn't say anyway ;)

And if you do know, do the honourable thing............












............tell us :p:

Re: 10mb speed and where it`s at?
 

Oh when i find out i will!

Sorry im just a ****, i do understand that if he knew he might tell me. i am greatfull to him but i wanna know!!!!

Re: 10mb speed and where it`s at?
 

You arent the only 1 my friend, but ntl are a busy lot an letting small people like us know when they intend to do it i doubt is high on there list of to do's :D

hell they didnt even bill me this month, lol :D

safe to say, before xmas tho.
;)

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

how do i go about getting 10 mb connection then? :P

any date? sorry if its been said..

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

upgrade to 3meg if you want to be first in line.

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Just to let you guys know, just been in touch with NTL regards upgrading my 3mb to 10mb and the chap said that it is unlikely to happen until the end of next year, there trial about 750 people for a week now but it is doubtful that we would see an upgrade until mid next year, not sure if this is true but he did speak to his supervisor, I even threatened to leave NTL but this made no difference. I am in Manchester.

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

I don't think 1 user threatening to leave is going to make much difference. Its in motion and ntl will be cracking on with things as best they can.

Whats the desparate need for speed?

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Its not so much desperate but I am considering DSL because its cheaper and faster, I only threatened to see if that sparked the usual we dont want to lose you speech and i managed to get more info. just thought id let other people know because the general impression is that 3mb users will be upgraded by the end of this year which doesnt seem to be the case, sorry if ive upset anyone, i will keep quiet next time.

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Your opinion is as important as everyone elses here, so don't keep quiet, ever!:)

From what I know, it will be the 3 meg users, who are paying more now, that will get the service first, then from january onwards, we'll see it rolled out slowly everywhere.:tu:

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

3meg customers should get the 10mb service in december though you will be very lucky to get a csr to discuss this with you. I've been to ntl new product breifings and you get all the info but you also get a list of notes that you are allowed to tell customers which is very little.

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

It could be the same as the last lot of broadband speed updates where customers could go online and upgrade themselves to the new speeds as soon as they were released thus avoiding the wait for the automatic speed upgrade.

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

my letter said end of December automatically upgraded "there's nothing that you need to do", and 1st customers in the UK to be upgraded to 10mb service with usage allowance of 75gig (Brighton area).

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Customer service do not have the dates and what you have been told is not correct and i have not heard of any trial for 10 meg running at the moment. That is all i am going to say on the subject.

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Could somebody give the best Customer Service telephone nunber to use if I need to discuss up-grading my existiong broadband to 2 mbs..... and what is the usage limit.

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

0800 052 2000

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

or 150 from an ntl phoneline :)


edit :- you can upgrade your speed online you know :)

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Thanks guys....appreciated. Could I upgrade on line - without a change in in payment [1mb to2mb] ? What are my chances ? Where would I go online to find this facility ?

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Not mine...

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

it does from mine :confused:

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

To upgrade your speed go here SPEED

THIS WILL AUTOMATICALLY ADJUST YOUR BILLING ASWELL

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Have NTL given a date for the speed increase yet? appart from the end of the year??? and does anybody know what the upload speed will be on 10mb yet? thanks

10Mbps
 

I seem to be getting 8-10Mbps down & 240-480kbps up. The upstream seems to be varying a lot more than before, though.

So, is this the infamous upgrade?

Re: 10Mbps
 

Where abouts do you live?

Re: 10Mbps
 

I highly doubt that it is the upgrade, I sometimes manage get a boost but then it goes back to normal.

Re: 10Mbps
 

St Albans (which connects to Luton, not Hemel)

Re: 10Mbps
 

Can you do a speed test for us to proove this?

http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/

^this is a place where you can get a test^

Re: 10Mbps
 

I'm not sure it proves anything, however ...
Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:54:14 GMT
1st 128K took 131 ms = 1000550 Bytes/sec = approx 8325 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 118 ms = 1110780 Bytes/sec = approx 9242 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 125 ms = 1048576 Bytes/sec = approx 8724 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 131 ms = 1000550 Bytes/sec = approx 8325 kbits/sec Downstream 5851 Kbps (731.4 KB/sec) 6319 Kbps (inc. overheads)
Upstream 31 Kbps (3.9 KB/sec) 33 Kbps (inc. overheads)

Communications 3.1 megabits per second
Storage 380.4 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 2.7 seconds
Subjective rating Awesome

... awesome!

Re: 10Mbps
 

No areas have officially had the 10Mb upgrade yet. Your local broadband router has merely spacked out. Normal service will resume shortly. ;)

Re: 10Mbps
 

is that the technical term :p:

Re: 10Mbps
 

The technical term is brainfart, but I used that recently: http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...38&postcount=9 ;)

Re: 10Mbps
 

you 100% sure.......;)

Re: 10Mbps
 

Has NTL started 10mb rollout then?

Re: 10Mbps
 

Nope. We're looking more at late November/December according to the information available. Don't worry, you'll find out in plenty of time before when they begin! :)

Re: 10Mbps
 

Nice....its nearly november now :) I cant wait! :dunce:

Re: 10Mbps
 

Aye, you'll probably be one of the first being on 3Mbps. :tu:

Re: 10Mbps
 

I know its :notopic: but what will the 2Meg tier be going up to?

Re: 10Mbps
 

They're all going to go up to 10Meg...

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

ooo? With different usage allowances based on what you pay?

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Yep


http://www.cableforum.co.uk/article/...ed-as-standard

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

I completely dissagree with the caps.....If you are going to have any cap at all then you may aswell get the lowest cap service, whether you have a 5GB a month cap or 75 GB a month cap its all the same. Im just gonna get the lowest cap service for the cheapest if they insist on putting the caps on.

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

The thing is, caps make sense if implemented correctly. By correct implementation, I mean that the hours of at least 1am-6am should be uncapped on all users' services.

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

You know that, I know that, but the muppets in ntl management dont seem to know that :(

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

I must admit it seems more people are worried about the cap, than the fantastic new speed.
Cant say i'm surprised really, give with one hand and take with the other, i'd sooner have less speed and not have to monitor usage at all.

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Well im excited about 10mbit even if it is capped. big jump in my opinion, startin to catch up with rest oif world. i welcome it :) just ASAP ;)

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Sky has bought easynet which provides a broadband service so i wonder if ntl will rethink the whole topic of caps and speeds.
Sky has obviously bought easynet to enable them tp provide competition to the "whole package" of broadband/tv/phone that they could not provide.

Could be an interesting time ahead.

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

I want higher download and upload speed with no small cap. I'd be happy with 24mb down and 2mb up uncapped for the same as what I'm paying now for the 3mb with NTL, or £24.99 even... Sound ridiculous? I think this will happen in 2006, and maybe even better deals, who knows? :D

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

I do, you won't see 2Mbit upload in 2006, nor will you see 24Mbit download without QoS or similar at that price, toooooo cheap :)
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Actually they haven't bought them yet, they've made an offer which the board has approved but shareholders need to approve it first.

Though yeah, soon I'll probably be working for Sky :p:

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Well i already have Sky and my only complaint ever; its not cheap, and if they do go into Broadband, you can bet it will be competitive, certainly at first.
And will they start streaming their programs through it?
This could totally alter broadband as we know it. They could of course, cock it up totally. ;)

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

it was only a matter of time before sky purchased an ISP u need a phone line for sky to work and they can now send u content a whole new way

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

yer but would you pay more for quality? because imo Sky seams alot better quality.. im not with Sky. but how often is the service down??

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Mines never ever gone off completely, as in its stopped receiving, neither analogue or digital.
Very rarely have i had to switch off the box because of a problem ie froze temporarily, and its only in force 10 gales can you see a bit of interference.
For the years i have been on it, never once have i had to ring up except for a package change, so if they could do the same for broadband...........:)

To be fair to NTL, if it wasnt for this stupid cap nonsense, they would still get my business everytime, the service is good [if you dont need overseas customer support] its always been ok speedwise, and reliability, and the e-mail has been fine since it got sorted. I cant complain about the price either.
But if i get any reduction of speed, even tho i try to watch what we all do, i'm off to the first "do as you like" BB provider, irrespective of cost, 3meg or above.

If only they read this forum.

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

i have been with sky from the start, but i did try ntl for a while for the tv. All i got to say is if the easynet deal goes through & sky approach that with the same commitment as they did the tv, then all the other isp's better wake up now & do something before its too late. Dare i mention itv when they quoted they were to big to be worried about sky (about 10 years ago)

Re: 10Mbps
 

A day later, and still going strong ...

6257191 bytes received in 6.5 seconds (9.4e+02 Kbytes/s)
6257191 bytes sent in 1e+02 seconds (59 Kbytes/s)

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

What the hell is that supposed to mean? O_o

Re: 10Mbps
 

...so everyone pay's £37.99? Or are they going to introduce a cap charge?

Re: 10Mbps
 

No, we'll pay what we do now. It'll just be a case of having different cap levels. :)

(Not sure of the details yet. :sleep: )

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

what kind of speed is this?

I'm on the 3mb service and the only reason I looked on nthellworld today was because I had a download going at 1.0mb/s constantly...

Also my ntl modem rebooted itself the other day and required me to reset the routers before it worked again? could it be 10mb on the way?

1st 128K took 140 ms = 936229 Bytes/sec = approx 7789 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 125 ms = 1048576 Bytes/sec = approx 8724 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 141 ms = 929589 Bytes/sec = approx 7734 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 125 ms = 1048576 Bytes/sec = approx 8724 kbits/sec

I live in Hemel and am connected to the luton server, same as the guy a couple of pages back.

Dazzuko

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

If luton get the 10mb first thats not fair, want to know why?


Because its not me.

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

It should be good quality sky have purchased an llu isp which doesnt restrict it to bt wholesale prices and packages.

I think this is a very good thing, before ukonline was probably not given respect by ntl as a competitor hence no reflection on cap level's set, but if sky become the new owner it will be given respect and assuming sky dont drop the cap level's their is now a fair chance ntl will raise the 75gig cap to a 3 figure number to compete better.

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Couldn't agree more, having 3 major competitors in broadband can only mean good news for us. (Not saying AOL and Wanadoo arn't major competitors, just not on the same scale as BT, NTL/Telewest and BSkyB in this country)

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Maybe it's because we're the only bit of Hertfordshire left to not get VOD? Karma!

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

So people have been upgraded?

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

I've seen a few claims, on various forums, not sure if anyone actually has got it yet though. There's been many email problems recently, past 2-3 days, i'm finding it very difficult to connect to the email servers, so maybe things are being readied for the upgrade?
I think if it was happening, there'd be a lot more than the 'few' i've seen posting, screaming from the rooftops about their new speeds.

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Maybe those testing are keeping it quiet ;)

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Well we will all have it soon hopefully.

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Ive just had Broadband installed (ntl 3meg) got an e-mail with the order,quote Systems UpgradeFrom 8.00pm Thurs 11th November - Thurs 18th November we will be making improvements to our services and systems.
During this time you will be unable to make changes to your Internet Service,

Any one think this is the 10meg upgrade ?

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Might just be an improvement to your area and not a speed upgrade.
But keep your fingers crossed as you never know :P

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Could be the upgrade you never know, what area are you in?

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

I got told off someone close to me that November the 18th was going to be when the upgrades started rolling out..

Didn`t want to say anything as this may of raised peoples hopes but it does look the case after reading that email.

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

welcome to the site, enjoy your self, prob is the upgrade;) :tu:



[QUOTE=mearle73]Ive just had Broadband installed (ntl 3meg) got an e-mail with the order,quote Systems UpgradeFrom 8.00pm Thurs 11th November - Thurs 18th November we will be making improvements to our services and systems.
During this time you will be unable to make changes to your Internet Service,

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

This is the full e-mail,the area is ashford kent



Systems UpgradeFrom 8.00pm Thurs 11th November - Thurs 18th November we will be making improvements to our services and systems.

During this time you will be unable to make changes to your Internet Service, however existing customers will be able to send and recieve emails, surf the web and upload to your webspace. Our Internet Support centres will have limited acces to their systems during this period. Normal service will be restored on the morning of Thurs 18th November. As an alternative to calling Technical Support, why not utilise ntl's new Broadband Medic online diagnostic and repair tool, available at www.ntlworld.com/help/broadbandmedic this tool will have limited functionality during the upgrade period.
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Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

It could be the upgrade. However, that is the same message that NTL post when they are upgrading their billing systems (and they *are* gradually rolling out a new billing system, called "harmony", across the country).

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

http://www.madbo.co.uk/10mb.jpg

There you go, I'm pretty sure thats the upgrade...

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

so for the people that seem to have been upgraded, what's the upload speed?

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

That looks much more like a billing system upgrade to me!

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Best guess:512kbps - I can regularly achieve 480kbps :( I was hoping for 1M

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

And my guess is your wrong.

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

your wrong, the upload speed for 10meg shud b around 100Kb/s bcoz 3meg upload speed is 35Kb/s but i dont think NTL will increase the upload well lets see.

512Kb/s connection is 60Kb/s down 7Kb/s up

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Unfortunately, you're wrong..

[img]Download Failed (1)[/img]

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

r u with NTL? lol bcoz it looks like a 8meg connection and as far as i kno NTL is upgrading to 10meg not 8meg lol

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Correct

That does not look like a Ntl config to me :)

Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
 

Isn't the new ntl 10mb: 'upto 10mb' though?