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Originally Posted by etccarmageddon
well they'd better pull their fingers out at NTL and get moving on shifting the 2mb users to 10mb asap as otherwise NTL are going to look pants compared to ADSL (in headline speed terms):-
www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/22/plusnet_isp/
and yes I know a lot of ADSL lines cant do 8mb but in marketing terms it will be beating NTL in a month or 2! |
Umm ntl offer 10mbit how do they look pants?
I wouldnt count plusnet as a credible comparison, I may have my issues with ntl but take a read at adslguide and you will see plusnet have become a mockery. They making the profits by forcing all sorts of shaping that puts anything other then http down to 512kbit and 256kbit speeds, so essentially their 8meg service is a 8meg browsing service and a 512kbit ftp/nntp service and 256kbit p2p service. Oh and they have no 8meg service they were marketing it for a good few months before people realised noone actually had it and they were all on 2meg so paying almost £40 for a heavily shaped 2meg connection. The grass isnt always greener on the other side.
If ntl were to rollout 10meg to the middle tier it would be dumb considering their is no bandwidth for it ubr's are creeking and peering is bursting at the brim they need to sort these problems out before they starting giving out more bandwidth.