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Mauldor · 19-12-2004, 23:23

Technical Aspects Aside, everything on computers is Symetrical apart from comms - why is it always harder to supply upload speed vs download speed? I can understand why this is the case on Cable as the equipment put in at the time was designed for TV, you are always sending data (from NTL) but have no real reason to grab data from the customer - so BB was a bolt on if you like.

Of course the real answer to all of this is Money to put into the ground the required cables for it all to work - China is a tad bit bigger than UK - I keep hearing how they have 10mbit and 100mbit lines, this of course is only inside china, once it goes outside it a tad slow (very).

I would even be happy with Faster Speeds inside the ntl network Only, a bit like there phones if that was possible (though it probably isn't), so User To User transfers / game hosting etc would be a lot faster....

Maybe in 10 years time we may well look back and laugh at a 1mbit line with 256K upload....

19-12-2004, 23:23	#12
Mauldor Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Scunthorpe Age: 59 Services: 50mbit, Base TV, Base Phone Posts: 437	Re: Bye Bye NTL.......... Technical Aspects Aside, everything on computers is Symetrical apart from comms - why is it always harder to supply upload speed vs download speed? I can understand why this is the case on Cable as the equipment put in at the time was designed for TV, you are always sending data (from NTL) but have no real reason to grab data from the customer - so BB was a bolt on if you like. Of course the real answer to all of this is Money to put into the ground the required cables for it all to work - China is a tad bit bigger than UK - I keep hearing how they have 10mbit and 100mbit lines, this of course is only inside china, once it goes outside it a tad slow (very). I would even be happy with Faster Speeds inside the ntl network Only, a bit like there phones if that was possible (though it probably isn't), so User To User transfers / game hosting etc would be a lot faster.... Maybe in 10 years time we may well look back and laugh at a 1mbit line with 256K upload....