rumour of upload speed increase for 1Mb service - 256k to 400k

[Daniel davies]

on the UK XBOX LIVE DISCUSSION web forum(http://www.forums.xbox.com), rumour has it NTL are increasing the upload speed to 400k. this is connected to the 1.5mb increase.

the title is NTL SLOW DOWN.

has anyone else heard about an increase on the upload ??

[Defiant]

Originally Posted by Daniel davies

on the UK XBOX LIVE DISCUSSION web forum(http://www.forums.xbox.com), rumour has it NTL are increasing the upload speed to 400k. this is connected to the 1.5mb increase.

the title is NTL SLOW DOWN.

has anyone else heard about an increase on the upload ??

I'd say the slow down is there website. Its down

[Tezcatlipoca]

The forums & site are up - it is the link that is wrong.

The forum link should be:

http://forums.xbox.com & not http://www.forums.xbox.com


Anyway. 400k upload? Not heard anything about it 'till now. Be great if it happened, but somehow I doubt NTL would do it.

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by Tezcatlipoca

The forums & site are up - it is the link that is wrong.

The forum link should be:

http://forums.xbox.com & not http://www.forums.xbox.com


Anyway. 400k upload? Not heard anything about it 'till now. Be great if it happened, but somehow I doubt NTL would do it.

or could do it

I've read in the latest Computeractive mag that NTL & Telewest are going to increase the BB speeds by 50% for no extra charge to the user

[Jarandco]

Originally Posted by NEONKNIGHT

I've read in the latest Computeractive mag that NTL & Telewest are going to increase the BB speeds by 50% for no extra charge to the user

Keep up! :pp

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=11564 theres a small (29 page) thread about it here

Originally Posted by Jarandco

Keep up! :pp

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=11564 theres a small (29 page) thread about it here

LOL! I getting too old for this !

[Tezcatlipoca]

Link to the thread:

http://forums.xbox.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=7508866

Requires you sign-in with a .NET Passport though - even just to read it

Snippets...

Originally Posted by smsidewalk @ XBox.com forums

I rang NTL today because my internet is now becoming really slow....[snip]....While i was talking to him [NTL TS] i decided to ask about the upload available and he told me that at the moment 256k is the max but when they all get upgraded (to 1.5mb i think it was) that the upload is also being upgraded (but he didnt say to what).

Originally Posted by wolverine 79 @ XBox.com forums

the ntl upload speed i was told will be approx 400k when the speed upgrades take place

Originally Posted by kilted warrier @ XBox.com forums

I have e-mailed nthell, qureying the upload speed of the service when it gets upgraded, they phoned back and explained that they will only be upgrading the download speed and will not be touching the upload speed and have no plans to increase the upload speed. We should be getting 375kb upload on the 1.5mb service as the network is set at upload being a quarter of the download.

I was told that blue yonder increased thier upload speeds to 400kbs recently, so maybe nthell have decided to follow suit, they might have changed thier minds since last week, I really hope so. £40 a month and I can't even host a 10 man game on RS3 without lag. You gat 256kbs upload on a BT 512kb connection for £20, are we being ripped of or what.

An upload increase seems very unlikely to me. But 2 people (at least) seem to have been told that it is going to happen (while a 3rd says NTL told him they aren't, but he also says TW/BY *are* increasing theirs).

Confusion on their part? Confusion on the part of whoever spoke to them?

[th'engineer]

now normally by this time in a thread we have someone who works for NTL saying no they are not. Now so far we have not had this so it might be true

[Defiant]

Originally Posted by th'engineer

now normally by this time in a thread we have someone who works for NTL saying no they are not. Now so far we have not had this so it might be true

Nah just can't see it. They would be beating Telewest apart from there 3MB download service so it wont happen

[icanadvise]

Originally Posted by th'engineer

now normally by this time in a thread we have someone who works for NTL saying no they are not. Now so far we have not had this so it might be true

its a bit of a shame that this forum doesn't have any contacts with the senior internet team like it sometimes seems to have with the tv people. There is an article on the company intranet that catagorically states there is no increase in upload, its from the Director of Technology in internet. Its also in the briefings - sounds like the peeps on the phone didnt read em

[dremmel]

no comment or denial by NTL staff (usually within the first three/four follow on's)= it will happen
remember the price drop from £50 a good while back (on .com board)just to name one. Wonder why the reg' hasn't picked it up, or was I asleep

[kronas]

why would NTL do an uprgarde on upload ? uploading is a commodity, UBR's are already stretched on capacity...... i dont see it happening until they switch docsis to give more bandwidth.......and they dont have the money to do that.

Originally Posted by th'engineer

now normally by this time in a thread we have someone who works for NTL saying no they are not. Now so far we have not had this so it might be true

Well here you go. I have not heard anything about the upload being increased. The download yes but not the upload. I would have been told by now, But there again i have been out of the loop on things before .

[dremmel]

aren't some area's on eurodocsis ?