ntl To Make 10MB Broadband Speed As standard
10-09-2006, 20:40
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ntl To Make 10MB Broadband Speed As standard
Just over a year ago on 08/08/2005 this statement from ntl appeared in the CableForum News Article section and implied that 10Mb would become the standard speed by end 2006 with customers being able to choose a Usage Allowance to suit their needs, or a service with "unlimited" Usage.
Has anyone heard anymore about this?
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10-09-2006, 21:07
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Re: ntl To Make 10MB Broadband Speed As standard
Nope  Before they offered this imo they'd need to do a whole lot of network upgrades
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10-09-2006, 22:01
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Re: ntl To Make 10MB Broadband Speed As standard
Well, i do know something is going on, there have been a lot of network upgrades on NTLs status page lately and some network rebalancing too.
I still don't know if they are going to do this or if they are doing something else bigger, we'll just have to wait and see...
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11-09-2006, 00:02
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Re: ntl To Make 10MB Broadband Speed As standard
I believe that idea was shelved in favour of the unlimited 1 (soon to be 2), 4 and 10meg packages.
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11-09-2006, 06:31
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Re: ntl To Make 10MB Broadband Speed As standard
I think theyll hold out for something bigger tbh, but that's just speculation.
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11-09-2006, 17:55
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Re: ntl To Make 10MB Broadband Speed As standard
Thanks for all your replies.
I'm on 10Mb shared to 3 PCs now and enjoy the speedy downloads, but my son will be leaving home soon I can't really justify the expense for the 10-15Gb a month I download.
I rather like the idea of a cheaper 10Mb BB service with a soft download limit of say 10Gb or 20Gb then a pro-rata payment system if you go beyond that.
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15-09-2006, 16:23
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Re: ntl To Make 10MB Broadband Speed As standard
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Originally Posted by Zee
Well, i do know something is going on, there have been a lot of network upgrades on NTLs status page lately and some network rebalancing too.
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Seems they are currently rolling out the 1 - 2Mb upgrade
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19-09-2006, 19:21
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Re: ntl To Make 10MB Broadband Speed As standard
u mean the upgrade to Totally ****ed Internet status.
Whatever they have done up here is going to result in a earbashing soon. 4mb connection that is as effective as a dialup modem (crap one at that) and its been going on for a week. If engineer doesnt fix it tommorrow CS will be getting a phonecall with request for credit.
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19-09-2006, 22:48
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Re: ntl To Make 10MB Broadband Speed As standard
They'll be getting a phonecall from me too. My '4Mb' line has been no better than a 128k line for over a week now. I guess their upgrade really shafted a lot of users 
NTL Upgrade - an oxymoron if I ever I saw one 
---------- Post added at 23:48 ---------- Previous post was at 22:00 ----------
I don't know if someone has just flipped a switch somewhere but after a week of virtually no internet it suddenly just gone into overdrive and is running at the full 4MB line it is supposed to be! 
Hopefully it'll stay like this now 
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20-09-2006, 23:13
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Re: ntl To Make 10MB Broadband Speed As standard
nice new 250 modem solved the problem... still got same ip... oh well. dont care. it works now.
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20-09-2006, 23:48
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Re: ntl To Make 10MB Broadband Speed As standard
I'll have to see about getting a new modem to improve my connection. As expected, normality didn't last very long
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21-09-2006, 20:34
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Re: ntl To Make 10MB Broadband Speed As standard
My 10Mb connection is working well as always. Hardly ever have any trouble here and always good speeds.
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21-09-2006, 21:35
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Re: ntl To Make 10MB Broadband Speed As standard
Guys there ARE specific speedtest threads here...
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21-09-2006, 21:57
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