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Originally Posted by DeadKenny
Perhaps but they're blind to the fact that ADSL has the huge benefit of a 256kbps upstream on 512kbps downstream. I'd much rather have 512/256 than 750/128. Then there's NTL's customer service...  |
Why is this a huge benefit to me, the Average Broadband Customer(tm)? The only thing I send, bar page requests and ack packets, are e-mails and IM messages (and posts to web forums
). The difference between 128k adn 256k upload wouldn't be noticeable for me.
But whereas I don't upload a lot of stuff, when I choose to download, I like it to be nice and swift. The extra speed announced by the cablecos today benefits me... I really can't see why people are being so negative. It seems to be a case of attack NTL no matter what, even when they're upping the speeds for the same money.
Of course, there is the issue of whether NTL have the capacity to up the speed for all customers. But I've heard it said many times over that it's the upload capacity that's the problem, rather than download. And in any case, ex-CWC areas should fair quite well, given the extra downsteam capacity they have on each UBR compared with Langley and Telewest, so I'm not worried
