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Originally Posted by tizer2000uk
The UKONLINE 8mb offer is releasing in my area (Guildford) in March and many other exchanges are being unbundled at the same time. NTL havent a clue when their paltry 3mb capped service is being released and so I shall be moving across after having been with NTL for 5 years.
The NTL capped service means that once you have used your allowance for the month it limits your speed to standard dial up for the rest of the month, a number of other countries such as Belgium have had the same system in place for a few years now.
As I only live less than 50 yards from the exchange, will only pay an extra £2.00 for a service that is 8 times faster and is "capped" (loosely speaking) to 500GB per month it would be pretty stupid of me to stay with NTL. Also all of my local area is currently on cable modems and so I will have alot of the contention ratio all to myself :o)
NTL really need to be able to keep up with the market as they have the infrastructure in place to be able to offer much higher speeds than ADSL, TELEWEST seem to be doing a better job but it is a pity that the two companies do not operate within the same areas as some healthy competition is sorely needed.
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I am getting rather confused now.
One poster is saying that some users already have the new speeds but you are saying that NTL don't know when they will be available. You obviously know what you are talking about because you know what will happen when you reach the cap. I didn't know that anything had been released about this.
Another fact that I hadn't realised is that 8Mb ADSL is 8x faster than 3Mb cable. I must be a real
. I don't know a lot about contention ratios so would appreciate you telling me the difference between contention on cable and on ADSL.