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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
The benefit gained depends on the usage style. For people who generally web browse and read email they will notice nothing, people using p2p may notice a improvement but I doubt they will be bursting upto 10mbit, the upload bandwidth on p2p comes from other residental users and is shared amongst many leechers. People who are most likely to see nice download speeds are when downloading files of big sites like microsoft and bbc, downloading of 100mbit+ ftp's inside the eu, (transatlantic is normally 5mbit per download thread or 0.25mbit on some backbones), newsgroup servers, and home's that have multiple users.
One thing that I havent posted about yet, is the timeframe NTL have put together for this, I have heard of a few ntl bod's already that they have apperently prepared for this and are good to go, then I have to ask why is it schedule for end of 2005 for the first set of people and then the rest spread out until the end of 2006. That is a 12 month timespan quite a long time for someone who is supposed to be preprepared and is a possible 18 months since the PR announcement. I remember when my area got upgraded but it was very congested before the resegmentation and I assumed the upgrade wasnt for a future service but to solve the congestion caused by the at the time 1.5mbit upgrade. I dont want to be negative but I have a concern that if high latency occurs due to local congestion on the ubr will NTL upgrade it again to resolve it.
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I would imagine this is a commercial decision to ensure that they can stay ahead in the game. With ADSL2 round the corner they need to be able to upgrade at short notice. Also they will have scored points by going to 10MB rather than ADSL's 8mb. They have probably announced the upgrade for the 3MB customers first to preserve the revenue stream until the upgrade. Otherwise people may downgrade first.