20 Meg From June

[bish79]

Can anyone with a 20MB + service post there speedtest results in here. Dont forget to change the settings to KBps rather than Kbps>> http://www.speedtest.net/

Thanks

[danjw]

Im on 10meg, i get a consistant speed of 9800kbs d/l and 490 u/l

All this for £2.50 a month

The 20meg cant come quick enough, but tbh im not bothered about the d/l iv never downloaded something and its d/l at 10meg any way, normally about 100-200kbs, i want the bigger upload speed

[MikeyB]

Originally Posted by Martyn H

As my 4Mb connection is never faster than 2.5Mb, I'm less than excited.

That's about the same as my 4Meg connection lately
It used to be near enough the full 4Meg at all times, but no so now, so just how well is 20Meg going to perform???

[chrisjones]

Not sure if this has been covered (14 pages of info is a little bit much to run through) but last night a guy in retentions told me that the upgrades will be rolling out within the next 8 weeks. He seemed like a really decent chap too.

Just my ickle insight.

[danjw]

Originally Posted by chrisjones

Not sure if this has been covered (14 pages of info is a little bit much to run through) but last night a guy in retentions told me that the upgrades will be rolling out within the next 8 weeks. He seemed like a really decent chap too.

Just my ickle insight.

i worked for NTL and this sounds like NTL to me, some areas will get it earlier, fact, but they say end of june.... for all customers, if they said "next 3 weeks" people would ring to complain cos they dont get it, better to be safe when NTL customers are concerned lol!

[chrisjones]

I might also add that he made it clear that 4mb customers are being re-graded to 10mb at no extra charge....

... Do I sense a network meltdown in some areas...

[TECHMAN2000]

ok lads,who going to be the first network to roll out the 20meg connection (NTl or Telewest connection).

[ferretuk]

[QUOTE=chrisjones;34253110]I might also add that he made it clear that 4mb customers are being re-graded to 10mb at no extra charge.QUOTE]

I'm quite happy with 10Mb/s and have no real need for 20Mb/s so I wonder if I (and indeed many others?) will be able to 'downgrade' to 10Mb when I get automatically upgraded to 20? 10Mb/s for £25/month sounds far more attractive than 20 for £37

Peter

[Hex]

Originally Posted by TECHMAN2000

ok lads,who going to be the first network to roll out the 20meg connection (NTl or Telewest connection).

My completely baseless guess would be NTL, tho that being said, living in the Midlands it doesn't really matter, because we always end up in the middle of any roll out.

[Locky]

feret if 10 meg is 25 i think i will end up doing the same, save £12 as only need for 20 meg is usenet and on 10 meg nearly 100 gig a day is enough, but al wait and see first !

i think the rollout will go area by area regardless of ex-ntl or ex-telewest, but lets see !

[popper]

one thing that i might like is some form of two for 1 broadband deal, is there anything like that planed or currently available for the many (ex C&W/NTL,south manchester)people that already have an ntl250 modem 10mbit/s and samsung smt2100c STB with currently inactive RJ45 BB connection?.

it might be nice to be able to get a good discount for say a second BB connection, 4mbit/s or even another 10mbit/s off the samsung STB then i could use that while the family game LAN use the ntl250 for their gaming/video streaming needs etc.

[Hom3r]

Thank god I'm on XL, Roll on 20Mb (what sites will dish out tht speed to downloaders)

I hope that XL users get the 50Mb free and that it is not another tier

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Originally Posted by popper

it might be nice to be able to get a good discount for say a second BB connection, 4mbit/s or even another 10mbit/s off the samsung STB then i could use that while the family game LAN use the ntl250 for their gaming/video streaming needs etc.

I won't happen you can only have one SACM per user, buy a router, some of which allow you to conrol bandwidth.

[Toto]

50Mb will likely be a tier, possibly around the £40-50 mark.

[popper]

Originally Posted by Hom3r

Thank god I'm on XL, Roll on 20Mb (what sites will dish out tht speed to downloaders)

I hope that XL users get the 50Mb free and that it is not another tier

---------- Post added at 21:07 ---------- Previous post was at 21:04 ----------

I won't happen you can only have one SACM per user, buy a router, some of which allow you to conrol bandwidth.

yeah sure, i know about routers ,3rd party firmwares and things personal bandwidth managment etc, but at the end of the day, its far easyer (or at least should be)to get a seperate broadband connection and conect to these as totally seperate/independent network connections and not need to thing about the kids killing your connection because a setting in the hardware or software was set wrong.

there are lots of possabilitys for the tech users to take advantage of several seperate home conections when they want too, but thats beyond this thread.

why is it that the users cant have more than one SACM though?, you can have i think its upto 3 STB's installed and the billing system is geared for that AFAIK, so why cant the included internal CM be also used for extra web connections at a good price, after all it benefits VM as they dont need to install yet another bit of kit.

this area at least (south manchester,exC&W) have and are using the inbuilt CM of the stb's for broadband connection although its been said the TW areas dont allow this option......

if as i and many others already have ntl250 CM's and a seperate STB with unused but perfectly capable CM (several mates use that as their CM connection right now) , so no need to install anything new so no cost there, mearly offer the option of discounted 2nd/3rd seperatly billed CM connections and everyones happy, surely?.

as a side note and to give some industry thoughts about how the higher BB might be used and they too bring up the managment of the connection.

http://techdigest.tv/2007/03/20mbps_broadban.html
20Mbps broadband, huh? What is it good for?

[pugs]

All of this makes very interesting reading, but i just wonder how many perfectly good internet connections they are going to destroy this time.

In May 2006 i had an excellent 2MB service with Telewest and was looking forward to the new 4MB service which arrived roughly in the middle of May, that's when my nightmare began.

My modem started dropping off line 10+ times a day which required a re-boot, and there was a noticeable increase in the time taken to load a webpage.
After several phone calls and tests they said i had a faulty modem and they duly changed it, this only rectified the need to re-boot, i was still dropping off line with a noticeable speed drop.

After several more phone calls and tests they said the new modem may be faulty and duly changed it again, but to no avail.

Then my phone calls started to fall on deaf ears. I was continually being told there was no issues in my area causing slow speeds and only to phone when i was actually off line (so they had proof). Well my internet connection only dropped off line for a minute or two and as it takes at least 2 to 3 minutes to get to talk to anyone this was extremely annoying and frustrating, but i finally got there and they had their proof.

To cut a very, very long story short. In November 2006, After hundreds of phone calls, hundreds of ping plotter and speed graphs, 4 new modems, all cables in property re spliced, different pegs in Telewest box, new cable from box to property, NETWORKING finally put their hands up and said that the problems were caused by serious traffic issues because of the new 4meg service, and an upgrade to the server was planned in January 2007

Well since then two dates for this upgrade have come and gone, Virgin media have put me on the 10 meg service in an attempt to drip a couple of extra bits to my pc, my average download speed during the day/evening is 150 to 300 mbps, at 4am its 6000+ mbps, last evening i recorded my slowest speed yet........ Download 47 mbps (5.88mBps)........ Upload 3 mbps (0.38mBps)

I would do anything for my excellent 2meg service back.