200Mb trial - Page 2

zpos · 31-05-2010, 19:50

I'm on the 20Mb service and just signed up for the trial. Here's hoping I get picked!

danlufan · 01-06-2010, 09:37

Personally i think this does look good, however they should concentrate their efforts on upload, the way people use the internet is changing, therefore greater upload speeds would be required more by the customer (even though some dont realise it).

Upload speeds never get the marketing they should. This will change in the coming years.

pip08456 · 01-06-2010, 10:02

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Originally Posted by danlufan

Upload speeds never get the marketing they should. This will change in the coming years.

BT Infinity is changing that already by advertising up to 10Mb upload.

roughbeast · 01-06-2010, 10:05

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Originally Posted by danlufan

Personally i think this does look good, however they should concentrate their efforts on upload, the way people use the internet is changing, therefore greater upload speeds would be required more by the customer (even though some dont realise it).

Upload speeds never get the marketing they should. This will change in the coming years.

Good point. I really appreciated the extra ooomph during the 5Mb upload trial. eg Gaming, but also seeding bittorrents after download. I got up to my 1:1 share really quickly so I could remove the torrent file pronto.

danlufan · 01-06-2010, 12:53

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Originally Posted by roughbeast

Good point. I really appreciated the extra ooomph during the 5Mb upload trial. eg Gaming, but also seeding bittorrents after download. I got up to my 1:1 share really quickly so I could remove the torrent file pronto.

Well let's hope they do some trials around Belfast, i would be more than happy to test higher uploads

P2P gaming on steam and web designers will surely be happy

Radeon · 02-06-2010, 00:54

Would be nice if they did some trials in the Neath area, we always get left out, being a small area I would think it would have been a nice place test in.

Would love to trial the 200mb or even just a faster upload on the 50mb service

telfordcable · 02-06-2010, 01:16

what the point of 200Meg for ? We don't need 100, 200, 500, 700 meg or 1TB meg ! I love 10 Meg as 10 Meg is better !

Radeon · 02-06-2010, 01:41

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Originally Posted by telfordcable

what the point of 200Meg for ? We don't need 100, 200, 500, 700 meg or 1TB meg ! I love 10 Meg as 10 Meg is better !

Why have 10mb when you can still use dial up

Once more people have faster speeds then there will be future services that will take advantage of it. If it wasn't for speed increases there would never have been a YouTube or any other photo/video sharing services, you never now what new services will pop up in the future once the infrastructure is there.

danlufan · 02-06-2010, 10:32

Well the problem is there are services available like online backup and P2P gaming that are being restricted due to upload speeds. Download speeds will give us more IP-TV services and SIP voice services.

REM · 03-06-2010, 18:46

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Originally Posted by Radeon

Why have 10mb when you can still use dial up

Better still, semaphore. It's free, once you have made your own flags. There is no speed cap. You can wave your arms as fast as you want.

jtaylor06 · 04-06-2010, 02:33

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Originally Posted by telfordcable

what the point of 200Meg for ? We don't need 100, 200, 500, 700 meg or 1TB meg ! I love 10 Meg as 10 Meg is better !

Terrabyte-megabit, that's new

Things move forward with time.
If they didn't we would be all with black and white TV and dial up.

|Kippa| · 04-06-2010, 10:57

Ok so I like broadband, but I do miss the sound of the modem dialing up and connecting. There is just something nice and geeky about it.

Druchii · 04-06-2010, 11:56

http://www.lazylaces.com/56Kmodem/

philwhite100 · 04-06-2010, 18:16

Is the Trial for a specific area?? i suppose it will be.
On the 50meg service here and it works well 90% of the time.

philwhite100 · 05-06-2010, 19:38