Re: New Speeds - June 1st
 

Let me be the first to start the inevitable "Will NTL swap my 120 modem?" discussion. How dare they not update the 120 modems? If I spill tea on it will this get me a teryon 250? NTL YOU WAZZOCKS SORT IT OUT!!!!11!!eleventy1 ;)

I have a 120 modem, and so do a hell of a lot of other NTL broadband subscribers. The 120s were a pain in the backside to upgrade to 10mb, so it's obvious that NTL will check that the 4mb config file works flawlessly :rofl: before deploying it to such a huge user base. Have patience, it will come.

Re: New Speeds - June 1st
 

yeah just like they tested it before on the 10meg (003 firmware) then it took 2 weeks of us complaining to them that it borked the NTL120 modems and then saying no its fine before someone with half a brain said yes its the firmware and rolled it back to 002.

strange why Brighton is so late on the rollout list if CS is correct in saying the 22nd, usually its one of the 1st area's. Anyway i'm not bothered this time, 2meg unlimited suits me, i'll wait for 4meg unlimited when it gets to me and if it borks the 120's again like the 10meg upgrade then i'd rather it had a accident this time and get a new modem, after all i'm only renting it -if its not fit for the purpose and they wish for me to continue paying for their service they will soon swap it over asap

Re: New Speeds - June 1st
 

thats interesting, obvously its not right, and they may have been playing around with their kit, but that 23.95 Mbps implys that the modem and the ubr can do around 25.Mbps today, i assume you have an ntl 250.

i wonder what the max real upload rate would have been.

Re: New Speeds - June 1st
 

So what number do I ring to get my 100 modem swapped out for free ? I am not going to pay for it !!

Re: New Speeds - June 1st
 

http://www.ntl.com/mediacentre/theco...faq/?section=3

"Q. I've heard that contention ratios differ between cable and ADSL broadband. Can you explain?
A. Yes. We have engineered our local access network to provide a 20:1 contention ratio in comparison to a number of ADSL providers who have contention ratios as high as 50:1. The "contention ratio" is the number of customers that share one unit of data capacity, meaning the lower the contention ratio the higher the quality of the local access network."

Re: New Speeds - June 1st
 

Bullsh**.

Although it does have the claim:

To keep it company, although that could easily be spun to be claiming that 3 out of 4 customers who already have ntl choose their broadband over ADSL.

Cable covers a bit under 50% of population so if it's outselling DSL 3:1 in its' own areas
it should have about 60% of the total connections DSL has (3:1 + 0:4 = 3:5 = 60%). Considering that ADSL is used by over 8 million people cable should in that case have 4.8 million broadband users. I'm fairly sure it doesn't, I find 2:2 + 0:4 = 2:6 = 33% or about 2.66 million to 8 million far more realistic considering the just under 50% where coverage of both overlaps.

Re: New Speeds - June 1st
 

I tend to suspect it is bull as I'm on the (upto) 10meg tier but am getting only (upto) 7meg.

Re: New Speeds - June 1st
 

Each card gives 27 or 38Mbit in Langley areas. 200 4Mbit customers will break the 20:1 on a 38Mbit card, that doesn't include the 1Mbit or 10Mbit users.

They will contend as high as they can like everyone else. Anyway slightly offtopic - contention shouldn't matter a jot so long as performance is alright.

Re: New Speeds - June 1st
 

I just dont believe the speed increase of the top tier from 3 to 10meg and the new increase of the middle tier from 2 to 4meg have been matched by equal amounts of extra kit in the UBRs.

Re: New Speeds - June 1st
 

You don't get it swapped unless its defective which would need to be clarified by Tech Support

Re: New Speeds - June 1st
 

Thank you :) for your reply.

Re: New Speeds - June 1st
 

so does anyone know when the NTLHome 100 & 120's are being upgraded?

ik

Re: New Speeds - June 1st
 

I wouldn't envy anyone trying to convince tech support that their modem is defective.

Re: New Speeds - June 1st
 

Ive heard they dont take too well to Fish Tanks....;)

Re: New Speeds - June 1st
 

*winks* I err... Accidentally, er... nudged mine when i was cleaning the tank out... ;)