New Speed Upgrades 8th March. (Part 3)

[kronas]

woooooooooooot

i went to the tier migration page and it gave me the no sms error, rang customer services i got straight through to a lovely australian the system was refusing to find all of my details through the site.

she then asked me if i wanted to upgrade my speed, i said yes is 3mbit available ?

she said: yes it is

me: is it £37.99

she said: yes it is

she said: its available as of today!

me: and it has a 1GB daily usage limit ?

she said: let me see with the details i have....yes its 1Gb daily usage

me: ok

3 seconds later:

she said: all done your now on the new speed!

me: thank you very much, thanks bye....


i went to reboot my cm straight away and:





Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:00:18 UTC
1st 128K took 360 ms = 364089 Bytes/sec = approx 3029 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 359 ms = 365103 Bytes/sec = approx 3038 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 359 ms = 365103 Bytes/sec = approx 3038 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 375 ms = 349525 Bytes/sec = approx 2908 kbits/sec

[MindfreeZe]

Originally Posted by kronas

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you lucky dog!

[handyman]

fortunatly I just re-installed windows so plenty of softwares updates to test the connection...

[fragless]

BB3 1, Darwen

Used the online upgrade and now on 3mb

[kronas]

Originally Posted by MindfreeZe

you lucky dog!

i know!

now all i need to do is when i have some time is to tweak my windows settings to get the best possible data throughput

[handyman]

Originally Posted by gooner4life

Its worth here taking a deep breath and and a sip of reality, NTL are providing customers with a *FREE* upgrade doubling your current download speeds and have not given a date for when this should happen so demanding compensation or some sort of money off because Bob down the road has got something you havent is churlish and comical to say the least.

here here.

what do ntl think they are doing my connection has gone from 512k to 600k to 750k to 2mb and the price is still the same, i think i'll complain too.

[donald]

Originally Posted by foxtrot_yankee

Which part of Renfrewshire are you in?

Johnstone area, but Pailsey also done as is Greenock as my collegues have all upgraded.

[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by handyman

If you think your having issued because of the router then unplug the router and plug the cable modem directly into the computer. Dont forget to reset both tpo refresh your ip's though.

Of course you may be on a seg that has not been upgraded yet.

Would a seg that hasn't been upgraded yet stop you from upgrading through a link such as https://autoreg.autoregister.net/cgi..._tiermigration ?

I would have thought that they would not want people upgrading in areas that required some work and would instruct NTL staff not to upgrade any customers asking for the upgrade in those areas until the work was done. But bypassing the human element and using the link just mentioned should mean that you are able to get the new config file as it appears the old config files are no longer on the apgrade site systems.

I may just go to 2MB, as long as my parents will let me

[Alanmelon]

Cable Forum server?

[DarkO]

i just upgraded to 3mb using the online page.....i live in colchester, essex....which poll box do i select?

[bywater]

I think all the new upgraded people must be maxing out there new connection all I have had today is a downgrade from 750kbs to 473.50 Kbps
which is around 59.19 KB/s Thanks Alot NTL.
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Was working lovly till upgrades started happening !
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I think all the new people must be maxing out there new connection all I have had today is a downgrade from 750kbs to 473.50 Kbps
which is around 59.19 KB/s Thanks Alot NTL.

[handyman]

Originally Posted by ian@huth

Would a seg that hasn't been upgraded yet stop you from upgrading through a link such as https://autoreg.autoregister.net/cgi..._tiermigration ?

I would assume that theres someone like bbking logging in to the servers and running a script that sends out the config files and reboots the modems. Once each area is complete I would guess that they will run some tests, possibly phone a few people see if alls gone ok the move on to the next area. This process will take some time.

So no doing the upgrade yourself will not be affected.

Originally Posted by ian@huth

I would have thought that they would not want people upgrading in areas that required some work and would instruct NTL staff not to upgrade any customers asking for the upgrade in those areas until the work was done. But bypassing the human element and using the link just mentioned should mean that you are able to get the new config file as it appears the old config files are no longer on the apgrade site systems.

They would not have released the upgrade if the areas could not cope with it, there will have been many tests for this and if they have doubled the bandwidth that they give us then there has to be more availble now on the network, it would seem madness to run at a max of 3mb, My guess is that the network has a theorectical limit of 10mb now. (its used to be 3mb before the upgrades).

[Neil]

Originally Posted by gooner4life

Its worth here taking a deep breath and and a sip of reality, NTL are providing customers with a *FREE* upgrade doubling your current download speeds and have not given a date for when this should happen so demanding compensation or some sort of money off because Bob down the road has got something you havent is churlish and comical to say the least.

Well said.

[altis]

Originally Posted by DarkO

i just upgraded to 3mb using the online page.....i live in colchester, essex....which poll box do i select?

Try this thread to identify whether you are 'Langley' or 'Bromley':

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=20425