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Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23
Since this topic is meant to be about speed upgradesi thought i post it here, i have bene looking on telewest maintenance page and recently they have been doign a lto of network upgrades and doign upgrades to the ubr's nto jsut in my area but nationwide do you think this is the start of potential upgrades to teh speed in some way?
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Not really, constant upgrades are needed anyway in order to maintain capacity for the current customers, also the more capacity that's free the better the performance.
Ex-Telewest areas are currently upgrading their upstream paths to allow them to fit more customers onto the same hardware.
Telewest didn't as a rule do big upgrades unless customers were complaining however these upgrades aren't necessarily major.
They may be looking at an increase in upstream capacity to match up with ntl's deals and get the 512k upstream on the 10Mbit product.
Rumours are also abound of a 15 - 20Mbps service being released to compete with ADSL2+, however this could prove challenging to support on an unlimited basis especially as customers would expect and demand at least 1Mbps of upstream on such services.
It's very tricky to guage exactly what ntl are up to. In the US the cable providers there compete solely on speed and are ahead of the DSL operators. Here the cable operators aren't number 1 for speed or price so it's tricky to figure out where they are going.