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Originally Posted by webvictim
I sometimes find it tricky to get the full 4mbit on BY in my area (Liverpool), and I put this down to Telewest not allocating enough bandwidth to the loop that my cable modem is on - after all, I live in a student area and I think there are a quite a few customers who spank the connection all day long.
For this reason, I don't really want them to introduce a 6/8/10mbit service without first working out their bandwidth allocation. It's not fair that I pay £50/month for a 4mbit service and don't get it because they're too tight to buy a bigger pipe for everyone in the area.
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There are areas like that in every cable operator in the world's network sadly. Cablecos can upgrade endlessly and the bandwidth will just get eaten, literally nothing that they can do about it as you can only upgrade so far.
Other issue of course is from the cableco's point of view why should they throw tens of thousands at an area that'll take ages to make that money back, if ever?
Anyway as I said about this rumour at the time, quoting the original post...
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I have recently been informed that Blueyonder will be launching a new 6mb service in May. I got this information from the same person that told me 4mb was happening in December last year quite a while before it became public knowledge.
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Well, it's June now, so that's about the end of that one, as I've endlessly wittered on abot this it's conjecture, there's a 10Mbit trial towards the end of the year, and depending on the results of that and availability of appropriate hardware for Telewest's use this will see a launch commercial in 2006.