Telewest targets 50-100meg by end of 2006
 

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/n...VuAVputhUaQfeW

great except - what's the point!?

Re: Telewest targets 50-100meg by end of 2006
 

Wow - that would be seriously impressive.

I guess those speeds would make it far eaiser to watch TV programmes via the internet and I guess it would mean that TW could extend its Teleport service to the internet as well as ghrough the TV.

Re: Telewest targets 50-100meg by end of 2006
 

100Mbps seems to be the standard "all anyone could ever want" speed at the moment, so 50Mbps would do nicely. :D

HDTV, fast downloads, the works. It'd do nicely. :)

Re: Telewest targets 50-100meg by end of 2006
 

lol 100meg with 384k upload :p:

Re: Telewest targets 50-100meg by end of 2006
 

Upload is so limited because of DOCSIS 2 spec (which is still better than previous version), but I believe DOCSIS 3 greatly increases upstream capability so these news should be truly welcomed even though I would be totally amazed if they achieve what they say -- but at least knowing some target near date is very good news at all!

Re: Telewest targets 50-100meg by end of 2006
 

what is dociss?

"cables" can take any speed (coax and fibre) so its not the cable type that is the prob
and if they r gonna have ethernet to the door, that limits them to 100mbps?
i suppose it wouldnt matter cuz ppl would have to change network cards to go over 100mbps

Re: Telewest targets 50-100meg by end of 2006
 

Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications (from the news item ......)

Re: Telewest targets 50-100meg by end of 2006
 

Cable is just one part -- equipment on both sides of the cable should support these speeds, and this is where protocols come into play.

Re: Telewest targets 50-100meg by end of 2006
 

No, the higher the frequency used the more loss there is, and remember that light is EM radiation just as RF is albeit at massively higher frequencies. This is more of an issue on copper.

Another issue is signal quality and due to its' nature the coax side of network is vulnerable to noise intrusion causing degredation of the wanted signals.

I'm not going too far into depth that the existing equipment is incapable of supporting ethernet over coax so you'd need to bypass the active parts of the current network :)

Re: Telewest targets 50-100meg by end of 2006
 

:LOL: and a 3 gig cap

Re: Telewest targets 50-100meg by end of 2006
 

Lol.

Re: Telewest targets 50-100meg by end of 2006
 

I wonder how fast Telewest COULD go? I believe ntl can only get to 30-50 meg.

Re: Telewest targets 50-100meg by end of 2006
 

Uh, I believe considering they both are on the floor, cable networks, they could supply whatever their equipment can handle.

Re: Telewest targets 50-100meg by end of 2006
 

which currently is...

Re: Telewest targets 50-100meg by end of 2006
 

Exactly. You don't know so how can you make assumptions?

Maybe because 'everybody' thinks TW is a shining path into the clouds? Ya right.