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DVS · 01-01-2006, 01:41

Well I'm currently less than impressed with the upgrade and it appears to me (especially after reading other posts on here) that this whole upgrade was for the marketing departments purposes not the customer. Overall throughput on my 'upgraded' connection is no better (and possibly slightly worse) although the peak burst speed is higher this is not sustained. I have tested this against known entities/servers and know that the issue is not 'the sending server(s)'.

I've also found that my connection/STB is no longer stable and since the upgrade I've lost connectivity more times than I can count (pre-upgrade my connection was rock solid). For some reason the STB seems to lose the ability to handle TCP connections (ping/ICMP still work) and this connectivity loss is getting mighty annoying.

NTL have also seriously short changed STB users with their 5Mbit or £50 SACM upgrade.

Just my tuppence.

01-01-2006, 01:41	#1563
DVS Inactive Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Lancs Services: 3Mbit STB broadband TV Base Pack 321 Phone Posts: 108	*Re: ALL* ntl 10Mb Discussion (Part 3)** Well I'm currently less than impressed with the upgrade and it appears to me (especially after reading other posts on here) that this whole upgrade was for the marketing departments purposes not the customer. Overall throughput on my 'upgraded' connection is no better (and possibly slightly worse) although the peak burst speed is higher this is not sustained. I have tested this against known entities/servers and know that the issue is not 'the sending server(s)'. I've also found that my connection/STB is no longer stable and since the upgrade I've lost connectivity more times than I can count (pre-upgrade my connection was rock solid). For some reason the STB seems to lose the ability to handle TCP connections (ping/ICMP still work) and this connectivity loss is getting mighty annoying. NTL have also seriously short changed STB users with their 5Mbit or £50 SACM upgrade. Just my tuppence.