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Originally Posted by slowcoach
How soon before the "I'm back" threads start showing?, methinks Bulldog etc. slipped up with the 1 month contract.  |
Unless they can guarantee me a stable connection, I won't be one of them.
They couldn't before which is why I left. No point in 10Mbps if it doesn't work
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Originally Posted by etccarmageddon
I wouldn't get too excited about this news - most web sites operate at 2mb so an increase to 10mb will only typically benefit people who want faster music and movie downloads (if the site can do it)?
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Indeed, and those people are capped at 75Gb anyway so unless they're desperate to download a particular piece of music or movie very fast, it's little benefit as the only other bonus to them is they can download more in a month... but they can't because of capping
It would be of benefit for video streaming, but NTL already has VOD and that's done through DVB I believe, not broadband, and for DVD quality via MPEG-4 you only need half of the 10Mbps speed.
You can increase the speed between ISP and customer to whatever you like but there's always going to be a limited resource somewhere, and if they let everyone do P2P downloading at 10Mbps 24/7, it will be unsustainable and they have to do what most other ISPs are doing and traffic shape if they want to have uncapped packages.
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Originally Posted by Just William
Speeds any faster will require the coax cable to each house to be replaced with fibre cable as coax can only cope with speeds up to 12mbps.
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No need for fibre to home. NTL have got the copper phone network which will support ADSL2+ and with distances to the equipment likely to be no more than between house and street cabinet, this means speeds up to 24Mbps without much extra investment. Future DSL technologies may increase this further, and the phone copper is a dedicated connection which avoids a load of unpleasant noise and reflection side effects you get with the local neighbourhood coax.
They could even do a combined system using coax and phone copper.
Fibre would mean a lot more investment as a lot of digging up would be required as well as new equipment.
Not sure what would be involved with DOCSIS3 though, but if it still uses coax, I'd be happier if they concentrate first on ensuring everyone has a solid stable signal rather than just dumping a modem on the customer and saying "tough" effectively if it doesn't work.
The big question though is what the upstream will be.