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Originally Posted by Tristan
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mojo, have you ever considered thinking before posting? Maybe combined with a bit of reading around the subject?
Likewise, there's not a lot they can do about the internation cable modem protocol, DOCSIS. The version currently used, (Euro)DOCSIS 1.1, is designed to be very very assymetric. That's why cable connections are very assymmetric. This isn't NTL's fault, it's the people who designed the protocol in the first place. There is an upgraded version, DOCSIS 2.0, with much better upstream capabilities, but the server equipment isn't readily available for it yet. But guess what: the modems NTL are giving out now can be flashed to DOCSIS 2.0 when the time comes.
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Really? 1 x 64QAM DOCSIS downstream, data bearing capacity just below 27Mbps and 6 3.2MHz QPSK upstreams, data bearing capacity 6 x 4Mbps. Not massively asymettrical main issue there is usage patterns.
If cable network were good enough
the downstream capacity could be increased over 33% and the upstream capacity 100%.
DOCSIS 2 compatible equipment is readily available from a number of vendors at this time.
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Also, I notice you don't mention the many cable ISPs in the states where configurations like 8 meg down/128k up are not uncommon -- for exactly the same reasons as above.)
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Who are these mythical ISPs? The best ISP for download I can see is Optimum Online whose upload is a mere 1Mbit to a 10Mbit download. Other North American examples are Cogeco with their DOCSIS 1.1 based 10Mbit/1Mbit premium package and 5.5Mbit/640kbit STANDARD package, Rogers and Shaw (using the mythical DOCSIS 2) also nowhere near as asymettrical as UK cable offering nearly 1Mbit uploads on 5Mbit services, Accessonline offer 9Mbit/1Mbit, etc, etc. Some US ISPs that are similar are Comcast who used to offer 3Mbit down 256k up but have uplifted to 3Mbit/384kbit, Roadrunner's 3Mbit/384kbit and 6Mbit/512kbit are in the ballpark as well.
Struggling to find that 8Mbit/128k up which is 'not uncommon' though sir.
As far as what ntl can do, well more proactive rather than reactive action would be nice, pushing the envelope would be great rather than sitting back and counting the pennies, however these things don't make money and regardless of the above ntl are there to make money and don't have quite the same attitude as Telewest towards innovation. I hope that the two of them benefit from each other when they merge and the combine company takes the leading edge - speed is the one thing that cable can make DSL bleed on.