I was just pointing out that excessive uploading is a pain to cable networks. ntl have in the past applied upload caps to areas, Coventry comes to mind, as upload traffic outstripped download so heavily.
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Originally Posted by agatward
One of my friends in Sweden has a 100 / 10 connection at home, delivered on fibre. Contention ratio is 50:1. It costs him 300 SEK per month (approximately £22.50) . If only the UK had been more prepared for the technological age!
On a different note, I still want to know when / if NTL will be rolling out PIM-SM or similar to their CM network. There's a lot of nice multicast content available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/multicast/channels.shtml - of course if NTL won't be doing native multicast any time soon then I'll just tunnel it on to the network at work, but that involves effort! |
Sweden the infrastructure was a combination of being built by Government and builders receiving tax breaks. Here we're far too busy wasting taxes to consider investing as being an option, plus we're a bit more free market than Sweden.
Native muticast isn't really going to be something that turns ntl on, as they are after all a provider of TV services. Hopefully they'll move to 'switched' CATV services which will allow more efficient use of their spectrums and permit more VoD options.