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Originally Posted by ianathuth
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. |
I was actually referring to my existing connection speed, although not exactly 8 times faster it certainly will seem like it due to the slowdown recently.
Some people may already have the upgrade but the idiots on the end of the phone still dont know when I might have the opportunity to upgrade.
Due to Guildford having a larger Cable user base than ADSL it makes perfect sense that there will be fewer ADSL users, in my road especially there are almost no ADSL subscribers, therefore there are fewer people to hog the bandwidth which means faster speeds for me :o)
As for the physical cap, there are only a few ways of actually efficiently controlling bandwidth usage,
1: Either cut the user off after they have used up their allocation, which wont happen.
2: Reduce the users bandwidth to dial up speed as already happens around Europe.
3: Give the user the option of paying more per mb / gb or whatever, this option will just annoy people and give them further justification to want to change to ADSL.
NTL are going the route of AOL and are trying to appeal and retain low usage customers who occasionally want the extra bandwidth for updates etc and are trying to get rid of high bandwidth users (Mostly people downloading illegal stuff)
This means that they will be left with more bandwidth to be able to offer more services on the network (VOD) and still retain the revenue, with fewer users downloading excessive amounts the service will improve for everyone (In theory).
I myself probably wont exceed the allowance its just I dont like being told that there is a limit to the service I am using, also the 400k upload will be useful for when I RDP over to my home PC from work and there are other users on the home network.
Tizer