Telewest targets 50-100meg by end of 2006 - Page 2

28-09-2005, 10:54

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Originally Posted by andygrif

and a 3 gig cap

Spoken like an nthell customer... and as a BY customer - what's a cap??

andymt · 28-09-2005, 17:19

speaking as a by customer-
i dunno wat a cap is, but they have a replacement.

When they want to, they give you a ****e service, ie giving you only 20-30% of the advertised speed. I pay for 1mb and find myself downloading at 50kbps sometimes.
Every time i reboot my modem is a lottery of what speed I will get.
People say it is the "side effects" of the upgrades that are coming to my area end of sep, but until i actually get the upgrade I cant accept that. If this upgrade doesn't come by friday (30sep) then i shall be angry. (im in mortlake area)
Id rather just have full 1mb speed and pay less rather than have a jaulty "pre upgrade speed" that ive been having since the first of september.

J.D · 04-10-2005, 13:19

I only have a 2meg service the now. Waiting for my 10meg service which should be here by end of this October

Im in Edinburgh and were very close to being updated. As for getting full speeds. I always get 253kb/s down and 30.4kb/s up so I've always received my full speed with TW.

I don't know why everyone is getting excited with the prospect of having 50 - 100 meg lines with Telewest maybe getting bought over and being completed maybe by the 1st quarter of 2006 by NTL. What the heck would a capped 50 - 100 meg line be good for??? Nothing! If NTHELL come and ruin this then bye-bye TW and I'll be welcoming ADSL2 with 24meg down and 1 meg up. I love TW but I'm not putting up with caps sorry but no way after enjoying my uncapped services for years now.

Amtiskaw · 06-10-2005, 13:45

Yeah, because ADSL is never capped is it?

J.D · 06-10-2005, 14:32

Yes quite a lot of ADSL are capped. But UK Online, Bulldog and BeThere don't cap and two of my friends have a Bulldog 8 meg service (which have been running ok so far) and another friend has an 8 meg UK Online service (He's had no problems what-so-ever) So if you are getting capped by NTL after being with Telewest (if they take over and cap our BlueYonder services) wouldn't you want to change?????
I think the answer is yes!

Rillington · 06-10-2005, 17:39

AOL doesn't either but the fastest they offer is 2 meg.

AtW · 06-10-2005, 17:44

I like Telewest and don't want to change, but caps will be totally unacceptable, especially after all they said about not introducing them.

Instead of just jumping the ship I think its more important for Telewest users unite and unanimously reject any attempts to impose caps.

ryu69 · 06-10-2005, 17:59

if they have caps it will be stupid as they even say on there site our competitoirs dont offer this it will be stupid

goone · 08-10-2005, 10:55

Dont mind caps as long as they are reasonable,take ukonline 500gig cap for example.

andymt · 09-10-2005, 11:24

i dunno y everyone is so fussed with the merger.

yes tw have been bought, but we wont see any effects for years!!

J.D · 10-10-2005, 17:05

I agree goone a 500gb cap is totally acceptable. I could live with that but any less and I sadly cry and tell my Telewest line that everything is gonna be ok and that it's not the line, it's me. We might hook back up in the future if things change but I want to see other ISP's. I had a good time with you telewest but now ur holding back on me. Im only 24 , I should be out there hahahahaha. I hope so Andymt If I get affected in 2006 then ur getting spammed lol kiddin or am I??

I ain't never paying for caps like NTL are offering now, NEVER!!!!

andymt · 10-10-2005, 20:42

ntl wont impose caps unless they need to.

anyway, i think NTL is gonna treat the two cable cos as separate in the eyes of the public as not to confuse them.
If they did cap tw, then everyone would leave as most ppl are paying for the unlim!!
anyway, as long as its after your 1 year contract, no worries!!
you can just cancel and move to a llu