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Mauldor · 13-11-2005, 17:27

::: My Finding so far :::

Ringing CS will 9/10 get the answer of "its not Avail till Dec onwards" - this is regardless if you can get 10mbit or not in your area.

If on the Upgrade (autoreg thing) page it says 10mbit then your are should be able to get it. On a 2mbit service my speeds were pretty constant across the board - soon as I went to 10mbit it can go as low as 512k to 5mbit max on a good day with winds prevailing. The modem I have (SB4100) *Should* be able to cope as it has a 10/100 port but yet it never gets above 4-5mbit.

Once you get this 10mbit the first thing your going to do is Speed test / Download stuff just to see how fast it is. This will settle down eventually to general browsing and downloading what you need. Everybody will be doing this at the moment - so this could account for the Crap speeds.

Do I like the 1-5mbit I have? Well the download is good i suppose but in general use I dont see me downloading 24/7 - so no difference really to when I was on 2mbit. The Upload is MUCH better (200k vs 512K) and worth the price alone I guess.

I guess await till 12th Dec to see if the thing settles down and a new Flash to modem or a new modem, failing that - back to 2mbit i Suppose...

13-11-2005, 17:27	#247
Mauldor Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Scunthorpe Age: 59 Services: 50mbit, Base TV, Base Phone Posts: 437	*Re: ALL* ntl 10MB Discussion (Part 3) ::: My Finding so far :::** Ringing CS will 9/10 get the answer of "its not Avail till Dec onwards" - this is regardless if you can get 10mbit or not in your area. If on the Upgrade (autoreg thing) page it says 10mbit then your are should be able to get it. On a 2mbit service my speeds were pretty constant across the board - soon as I went to 10mbit it can go as low as 512k to 5mbit max on a good day with winds prevailing. The modem I have (SB4100) Should be able to cope as it has a 10/100 port but yet it never gets above 4-5mbit. Once you get this 10mbit the first thing your going to do is Speed test / Download stuff just to see how fast it is. This will settle down eventually to general browsing and downloading what you need. Everybody will be doing this at the moment - so this could account for the Crap speeds. Do I like the 1-5mbit I have? Well the download is good i suppose but in general use I dont see me downloading 24/7 - so no difference really to when I was on 2mbit. The Upload is MUCH better (200k vs 512K) and worth the price alone I guess. I guess await till 12th Dec to see if the thing settles down and a new Flash to modem or a new modem, failing that - back to 2mbit i Suppose...