Telewest targets 50-100meg by end of 2006

etccarmageddon · 24-09-2005, 18:14

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/n...VuAVputhUaQfeW

great except - what's the point!?

Rillington · 24-09-2005, 18:22

Wow - that would be seriously impressive.

I guess those speeds would make it far eaiser to watch TV programmes via the internet and I guess it would mean that TW could extend its Teleport service to the internet as well as ghrough the TV.

jrhnewark · 24-09-2005, 18:26

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Originally Posted by Rillington

Wow - that would be seriously impressive.

I guess those speeds would make it far eaiser to watch TV programmes via the internet and I guess it would mean that TW could extend its Teleport service to the internet as well as ghrough the TV.

100Mbps seems to be the standard "all anyone could ever want" speed at the moment, so 50Mbps would do nicely.

HDTV, fast downloads, the works. It'd do nicely.

Robc66 · 24-09-2005, 18:28

lol 100meg with 384k upload

AtW · 24-09-2005, 18:50

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lol 100meg with 384k upload

Upload is so limited because of DOCSIS 2 spec (which is still better than previous version), but I believe DOCSIS 3 greatly increases upstream capability so these news should be truly welcomed even though I would be totally amazed if they achieve what they say -- but at least knowing some target near date is very good news at all!

andymt · 24-09-2005, 19:41

what is dociss?

"cables" can take any speed (coax and fibre) so its not the cable type that is the prob
and if they r gonna have ethernet to the door, that limits them to 100mbps?
i suppose it wouldnt matter cuz ppl would have to change network cards to go over 100mbps

**Paul** · 24-09-2005, 20:33

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Originally Posted by andymt

what is dociss?

Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications (from the news item ......)

AtW · 25-09-2005, 18:00

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Originally Posted by andymt

"cables" can take any speed (coax and fibre) so its not the cable type that is the prob

Cable is just one part -- equipment on both sides of the cable should support these speeds, and this is where protocols come into play.

Ignition · 26-09-2005, 06:08

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Originally Posted by andymt

"cables" can take any speed (coax and fibre) so its not the cable type that is the prob

No, the higher the frequency used the more loss there is, and remember that light is EM radiation just as RF is albeit at massively higher frequencies. This is more of an issue on copper.

Another issue is signal quality and due to its' nature the coax side of network is vulnerable to noise intrusion causing degredation of the wanted signals.

I'm not going too far into depth that the existing equipment is incapable of supporting ethernet over coax so you'd need to bypass the active parts of the current network

andygrif · 27-09-2005, 17:46

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Originally Posted by Robc66

lol 100meg with 384k upload

and a 3 gig cap

janipewter · 27-09-2005, 19:19

Lol.

Rillington · 27-09-2005, 22:17

I wonder how fast Telewest COULD go? I believe ntl can only get to 30-50 meg.

jtwn · 27-09-2005, 23:18

Uh, I believe considering they both are on the floor, cable networks, they could supply whatever their equipment can handle.

Rillington · 28-09-2005, 01:39

which currently is...

jtwn · 28-09-2005, 10:13

Exactly. You don't know so how can you make assumptions?

Maybe because 'everybody' thinks TW is a shining path into the clouds? Ya right.