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ian@huth · 03-11-2004, 15:02

A few thoughts on the subject:

Is the ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£25 admin fee just a way of jumping the queue and getting the upgrade faster than waiting for it to be applied across the board? With 2Mb and 3Mb speeds being available will STBs be able to handle those speeds? There must be a lot of customers on the 750k tier who have a Pace STB and all those will have to be supplied with a cable modem or Samsung STB, that is if the Samsung can handle 2Mb. My bet would be on moving everyone to SACM which would take a long time to do.

If NTL cap its customers as suggested it will mean a significant lowering of what you are able to download in a month taking into account that you can download as much as you want for a few days a month under the current advisory levels. My own view is that the new "cap" will largely affect the 24/7 warez merchants until such time as very high bandwidth streaming media is available. I hope that if NTL are considering more strictly applying this "cap" that they provide some means of checking your usage and document the consequences of exceeding.

Excellent news from NTL that can only be seen as positive, but as usual some will find something to complain about.

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ian@huth Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire Services: VM 10Mb, TU, 1xSky HD, 2xSky+ (HD,all packs, sports & movies) 2xDVD PVR's, Freesat Freeview & other Posts: 4,536	Re: [Now Official] More ntl speed changes A few thoughts on the subject: Is the ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£25 admin fee just a way of jumping the queue and getting the upgrade faster than waiting for it to be applied across the board? With 2Mb and 3Mb speeds being available will STBs be able to handle those speeds? There must be a lot of customers on the 750k tier who have a Pace STB and all those will have to be supplied with a cable modem or Samsung STB, that is if the Samsung can handle 2Mb. My bet would be on moving everyone to SACM which would take a long time to do. If NTL cap its customers as suggested it will mean a significant lowering of what you are able to download in a month taking into account that you can download as much as you want for a few days a month under the current advisory levels. My own view is that the new "cap" will largely affect the 24/7 warez merchants until such time as very high bandwidth streaming media is available. I hope that if NTL are considering more strictly applying this "cap" that they provide some means of checking your usage and document the consequences of exceeding. Excellent news from NTL that can only be seen as positive, but as usual some will find something to complain about.