How many will consider changing levels now?

[Florence]

I was just unterested to see how many members now feel the lower package is fast enough for them?

If you are on 1MB soon to be 1.5MB and are a light user would you move to the new 750K ?

Is there any on the 600K soon to be 750K now feel the new 300K is fast enough for what they use?

Would anyone move up from their present level to the next after this press release?

Time for a poll

[Lew]

I recently upgraded from the 600Kbps tier to the 1Mbps tier so I certainly won't be changing

[aliferste]

Hang on a min......im moving up to 750k? when is this happening?

I won't move down mainly because I upload a lot of photos to our family website. I can just about bear with 128k up, but 64k up on the entry-level service is just a little too much like going back to dial-up for my liking. If it weren't for that, I might have been tempted to experiment with the 300k service just to see if I could get by with it for browsing and occasional downloads.

Originally Posted by aliferste

Hang on a min......im moving up to 750k? when is this happening?

No idea how you managed to miss this thread Ali:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=11564

[zovat]

I won't be moving - I send/receive a lot of photos for our website, and the 1.5 will make life easier (especially if I am playing CS when my other half is mailing/uploading pics)...

[Sneck]

Ive recently gone from 150 to 600 and havent noticed much of a difference, its faster on main websites and speedtests, but on P2P its no faster so I will probably go back, even if they dont change it to 300.

[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by Sneck

Ive recently gone from 150 to 600 and havent noticed much of a difference, its faster on main websites and speedtests, but on P2P its no faster so I will probably go back, even if they dont change it to 300.

You should see quite a difference on p2p between 150k and 600k. Have a good look at Robin Walkers site to see where you are going wrong.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d...ips/index.html

[Chris W]

Originally Posted by zovat

I won't be moving - I send/receive a lot of photos for our website, and the 1.5 will make life easier (especially if I am playing CS when my other half is mailing/uploading pics)...

upload speeds are not changing though....

[danielf]

I will stick with 600/750 (for now). I don't download much, but I do listen to internet radio a lot, and I think more streaming video is around the corner.

[Sneck]

Originally Posted by ianathuth

You should see quite a difference on p2p between 150k and 600k. Have a good look at Robin Walkers site to see where you are going wrong.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d...ips/index.html

Yeah, Ive looked into it all, Its to do with my upload reaching 100% and bringing my D/ls to the same speed, I need a limiter otherwise Im just wasting money each month.

[DeadKenny]

I'll probably be moving down to 750/128, mainly because I don't like being forced to pay £3 extra (£36 a year) for something I don't want and will be little benefit to me (as of the 1Mbps service, it's mainly the 256k upstream I want).

I don't like being told I'm getting extra for free when I'm not and being told I should be happy to pay that bit more for the extra 500kbps, which although that's all very nice, does not represent a huge difference on a 1Mbps connection given typical use and limits of the Internet (i.e. for downloads, you may get that big download half an hour earlier if you're lucky, but I'm not really that bothered about it). The only benefit beyond slightly quicker downloads I could see is if I had three people using three PCs on my network and I can effectively give each 500kbps.

At the end of the day though £38 is too much to pay (£35 was pushing it as it was). Telewest can do it for £35.

[orangebird]

Originally Posted by DeadKenny

<nip>Telewest can do it for £35.

If you have another service with them...

[dev]

Originally Posted by DeadKenny

I'll probably be moving down to 750/128, mainly because I don't like being forced to pay £3 extra (£36 a year) for something I don't want and will be little benefit to me (as of the 1Mbps service, it's mainly the 256k upstream I want).

I don't like being told I'm getting extra for free when I'm not and being told I should be happy to pay that bit more for the extra 500kbps, which although that's all very nice, does not represent a huge difference on a 1Mbps connection given typical use and limits of the Internet (i.e. for downloads, you may get that big download half an hour earlier if you're lucky, but I'm not really that bothered about it). The only benefit beyond slightly quicker downloads I could see is if I had three people using three PCs on my network and I can effectively give each 500kbps.

At the end of the day though £38 is too much to pay (£35 was pushing it as it was). Telewest can do it for £35.

the 1mb service is going up to 37.99 anyway so you aren't paying for that extra 500k

[mrm1]

I wont be downgrading. 300k is still too slow for streaming video.