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Or they could be a result of the long standing and publically known about plans for BT to release up to 8Mbit 'MaxDSL' which was originally scheduled for, ooo, September 2005.

Considering your age your naivety is quite amusing sometimes dude :)
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No, read the exact same kinda thing from http://www.broadbandreports.com months ago although this was an exec from Comcast if I remember rightly, same kinda numbers 50 and 100Mbit.

Is now a bad time to point out that DOCSIS 3 cable modems are expected to cost a mere £130 or so, compared to the less than £20 that DOCSIS 1 / 1.1 / 2.0 modems do now? ;)

It's technically doable just so insanely bloody expensive and where TW are going to find the money from for 100Mbit is anyone's guess.

For all we all know this might just be posturing in preparation for the ntl merger, just as the apparent non-sale of Flextech was. Neither Telewest nor ntl will need to offer 100Mbit by the end of next year, chances are that no-one will go much faster than the ADSL2+ speeds that are being offered by then.

It all depends on BT however, if they go widespread with 2+ and turn the screw with fibre to kerb and fibre to home who knows. At present though this is the most likely course of events, BT's network can't handle a widespread ADSL2+ rollout until they can go pure IP rather than having to use ATM backhauls.

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ignition what is docsis2 capable off, or is that just a minor upgrade to eurodocsis?

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It offers better upstream bandwidth.

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ahh so yeah like ignition said then docsis3 needed for 100mbit and that would be hella expensive to rollout.

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thanks