Fast Telewest speeds a real possibility?
 

Everyone is talking about telewest plans for 8mb.10mb fast broadband, but are they real possibilities for the future?

What will the prices be, and will they be really expensive (4mb-£50 8mb-£60 etc..)
Or will they drop, so that the average user, paying £25, will be able to receive superfast speeds.
I am interested how telewest will price these faster speeds, so anyone have any ideas?

Re: Fast Telewest speeds a real possibility?
 

Wait till end of may, TW are introducing some changes then to there Broadband structure

Re: Fast Telewest speeds a real possibility?
 

The cable network in theory has the infastructure to go much higher then even 8mb, but I beleif a lot of that infastructure needs expensive work before this is possible as some areas are strugerling coping with the demand the current speeds are giving.

As for prices, looking at past patterns of speed upgrades the speeds go up but the prices stay the same.

Re: Fast Telewest speeds a real possibility?
 

I think they should have this:

256k £13.99
512k £17.99
1MB £21.99
2MB £25.99
3MB £27.99
4MB £31.99
5MB £35.99
6MB £37.99
7MB £41.99
8MB £45.99
9MB £47.99
10MB £50.00

Re: Fast Telewest speeds a real possibility?
 

Are there any rumours?

Re: Fast Telewest speeds a real possibility?
 

I heard on another forum that on the 7th on may or something 1MB customers are getting upgraded to 2MB.

Re: Fast Telewest speeds a real possibility?
 

That'll be me then. Nice :)

Re: Fast Telewest speeds a real possibility?
 

Me too :D but i'm not sure if it's true or not :confused:

Re: Fast Telewest speeds a real possibility?
 

If anything prices will stay still, they cant really ask for more than £50pm and the 256k isnt in the picture its gonna be upgraded free to 512k in May this is public news now.

Re: Fast Telewest speeds a real possibility?
 

Hopefully something will happen to speeds/prices!

Re: Fast Telewest speeds a real possibility?
 

Think away, I have a feeling that their provisioning system won't be able to hold that many options, and the people with their hands on the purse strings may disagree with you somewhat as well ;)

Re: Fast Telewest speeds a real possibility?
 

256k = £0.00

Because i say again there will be NO 256k its been upgrades FREE to 512k

Re: Fast Telewest speeds a real possibility?
 

I've heard a rumour that Telewest are going to be doubling their speeds in the second half of the year, including the upload.

Then again I hear so many rumours, I just don't feel the need to post them on every forum I frequent.
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Nope that's the 256k->512k upgrade sir.

Re: Fast Telewest speeds a real possibility?
 

it is a real possibility !

I had my ancient analogue stb upgraded to the pace digital one today and quizzed the engineers about broadband cable speeds as mine is currently 2meg.

The engineer advised "they are testing 8 - 18 meg speeds at the moment and that 22 meg was as fast as this could go with current technology." :)

Re: Fast Telewest speeds a real possibility?
 

Hrm try 38 with current technology, much less workably.

Service engineers, bless em :)

Re: Fast Telewest speeds a real possibility?
 

Also been told this, all speeds are supposed to double around mid-May, we'll have to wait till the 1st Quarter results next month for any public announcement

Re: Fast Telewest speeds a real possibility?
 

Gah, sarcasm thoroughly lost there. :(

So we have rumours of 6Mbit, 8Mbit, a 10Mbit trial confirmed for H2, and apparently TW are testing 8 - 18Mbit according to a service engineer so that must be true, even if he doesn't know how much capacity the network actually has.

Oh not to mention the guy who reckoned that TW were going to release an uncapped product, IE as fast as there was bandwidth left at the time.

There's some rumours to keep you guys going for a while, have fun.