Thread: [Merged] NTL Increasing BB Speeds Late Summer 2004
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Old 26-04-2004, 22:23   #182
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Re: [Merged] NTL Increasing BB Speeds
It surely doesn't take much to change the speeds - remember when they gave the 150k (or was it 128k then?) users a month's trial of 600k? - click, you're up, click, you're down!


I'll rake over a couple more points from way back in this thread...

You CANNOT compare contention ratios between dialup and cable - a 15:1 ratio on dialup is the ratio of user who could actually CONNECT, whereas on cable, it's bandwidth usage.
They could double all the speeds, and also double the bandwidth contention, then if it get's busy, you're back where you started!

It's obvious to anyoune with any sense, that the cap/warning for the 1.5Mbit tier needs to be raised pro-rata to 1.5 Gb, as the 750k tier will allow you to burn your entire quota in a short enough time anyway - and yes, it's clear whay the 600k gets the smallest increase, any more and people aggreived at the 1Mbit price rise wouldn't hesitate to downgrade to a service not much slower than what they had ... would you notice a 25% drop?

If they make the news and email finally work as they should, that's also most welcome.
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