Telewest prices
 

Can anyone tell me if telewest are increasing their BB speeds or changing the prices for their packages, i was told on the phone but i cant remember what they said, i

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As are as I am aware the pricing is as follows:

£17.99* for 2MB
£25* for 4MB
£35* for 10MB

*All have a three month half price offer if you are a NEW customer :)

Taken from: http://www.telewest.co.uk/websales/service.do?id=2

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Hi

Dont think they have actually announced either officially yet ... but with them trialing 20mb the probability is speed bumps sometime end of this year or next year to compete with SKY BB speeds .. i expect as Sky are doing a clean up job at mo with so many new broadband customers ntl:Telewest are gonna have to do something to stay competative so they may up speeds and drop prices especially on the package deals of tv phone & net

we will have to wait and see i think unless someone knows better but then its still rumour until confirmed

Cozzy

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i know what their CURRENT prices are(im a user), i was told by someone that either the prices were coming down OR they were doubling the speeds but i cant remember which one or if it were both, i was told early nxt year it was going to happen

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See that the telewest broadband offers at the moment are until 31/01/07. So that is around the time we might hear of any new pricing.

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yes i thought of that

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Telewest/NTL are trialling 20Mb at the moment so we should most likely expect another upgrade soon, it'll probably be something like

2Mb -> 6Mb
4Mb -> 12Mb
10Mb -> 20Mb

Nothing is official yet but expect it to be something similar. Other than that, what Bob said.

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wonder if the upload speed will go up,would be nice

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It is a long way since the days of dial up lol How could we forget the whirring and buzzing of the modem connecting (or not as the case may be) :D

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We've come along way, and today, with the announcement of 50Mb trials... It's really showing, that's got to be marketed as "900x Faster"... :p:

I still have 3 dial-up modems sat in a drawer, none of my pc's have space wasted with them any more mind.

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50Mb trials?

And yes Xan, the lucky people included on the 20Mb trial have reported the upstream speed has been set at 768Kbps. No idea if this will increase any more before the product is fully launched, although I hope it does. 1Mbit upload or more would be nice, and it would compete better with ADSL2+ since that can offer upstream as fast as 1.3Mbps.

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can i ask a question janipewter

u say with the 20Mb BB speed the upstream is set to 768kbps, y is this so low when the BB speed is 20Mb

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You could also ask, why is it only 384(supposedly soon to be 512)kbps for 10 Meg customers

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Blueyonder has always had a low upload compared to the download

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Because of the way DOCSIS works, and also the low capacity of the Telewest network. An upload of 384Kbps will satisfy a 10Mbps download rate, the same as an upload of 768Kbps will satisfy a 20Mbps download rate.

If Telewest don't want to give their customers that little bit extra just for our benefit, that's up to them. It only makes them less popular, and loses customers to services like ADSL2+ where they are available.

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just askin, im at college and we were doing about accessing the net using isdn etc,

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Don't you just love how out of date college IT courses are? The only reason for anyone to use ISDN anymore is if they are too far away from the exchange to get ASDL, but I'm guessing you're being taught that it is a "fast internet connection" (its not, its slow and expensive compared to ADSL or Cable)

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Each ISDN line can carry data at 64Kbps. Not sure about the pricing any more, but when we had an ISDN line at home it cost £99 to install. I highly doubt your school would go paying for hundreds of them (yes, that is how much bandwidth schools need nowadays) when they could easily get an Internet service from RM or something.

I'm not sure about your area, but most of the schools in this city with IFL Internet (RM's Internet product) now have it provided over Telewest's network rather than BT's and it's delivered by direct optical fibre, at speeds around 10 Megabits per second (up and down).

My college has Internet piped to it by optical fibre from the University of Plymouth, the total bandwidth we get is about 300Mbps (we also have a redundant microwave link to the UoP, just in case the cable breaks or fails).

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we did a bit about isdn but that was it, we focused more adsl and cable

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I have already asked customer services, and there are no planned upgrades or prices going down in the near future. If this does change then it won't be until the New Year.

This could tie in with the company name change on 14-Feb-2007.

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yes any changes will be in the new year like im sure i said it will coincide with the name change

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By near future I meant the next 12 months.

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hope it is not like digital text that has been coming soon for a good few years now

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You know how Telewest are with "coming soon" products. Remember when they first announced 10Mbit, it took them almost a YEAR to roll it out over the whole country.