300K to 750K stupid question but will I see a difference?

[pop80_uk]

Hi
Im new to this site and must say im very impressed!!
300K to 750K stupid question but will I see a difference, I know its stupid question but im think of spending the extra £5 per month and upgrading, my question is will it be worth it?
Will I see a REAL difference in speed?
Im using Win 2000 PRO and am going to upgrade to explorer 6.
So will I be blow away and its really worth it, or should I stick with my 300K connection which is relatively quick.
I use Ethernet to connect also.

Hope someone can help.

And again brillant site!

[BIGZIPZ]

I remember getting the 512k package from Telewest a good few years back now, and being blown away by the speed. I had just jumped from 56k to 512k though so I had reason to be.

I think you will be very pleased with 750kb, as it stands to reason you will see a real juicy speed increase

[Stuartbe]

to the site

The main difference will be that you can download files quicker. If you only browse websites then there wont be a huge difference.

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by Stuartbe

to the site

The main difference will be that you can download files quicker. If you only browse websites then there wont be a huge difference.

you may well find online gaming is improved as well

[Rone]

"online gaming is improved"

I doubt that.
I did better on 512adsl than i ever could on 1.5 cable [at no extra cost bar the money].
But if you live in an area with a good connection things should move faster.

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by Rone

"online gaming is improved"

I doubt that.
I did better on 512adsl than i ever could on 1.5 cable [at no extra cost bar the money].
But if you live in an area with a good connection things should move faster.

from your experience not from everybodys experience

it goes back to the old ' if you are not happy ' then either get ntl to sort it or vote with your wallet

[jtwn]

Between the 150k-600k-1mb-1.5mb there has been no online games difference for me, sorry but true

I did notice a difference in web browsing when i took the leap from 150k to 600k, but then again, the gap has been closed a bit now..obviously downloading files quicker was a big advantage.

Then again i upgraded some more, impatient i am

[Rone]

Ive been gaming online over 4 yrs, you can spot an NTL gamer as he\she usually has the worst ping on most servers.
Ive stopped playing for a while, i,m waiting for ntl to decide to fix my connection, or if they want to, or maybe this is the best it gets.
But ive had one meg almost 2yrs and gamings not much fun anymore.
You can have a 10mbit connection, but if your pings bad, forget it.
In fact an NTL employee told me last week on the phone, i would be better off on 750, he said the ping would be probably be as bad, but i would save money.
Fair comment.

[IanGuy]

Think it has something to do with your area for gaming.

On UK servers I get lower than 30 ping constantly.

[jtwn]

Yeah as ive said before...most of the time on uk/western european servers ill ping the lowest/near so....for instance multiplay.co.uk i find i am usually the lowest, pings from 12-20, gameservers.net in holland im nearly also the lowest all the time, the majority of the time i am, pinging better than a friend who lives in the nl!

Same with two friends in the area on ntl bb, hosted an aoe2 game, their pings were around 12-15...two other friends on the game on adsl never dropped below 40.

[monkey2468]

Originally Posted by pop80_uk

Hi
Im new to this site and must say im very impressed!!
300K to 750K stupid question but will I see a difference, I know its stupid question but im think of spending the extra £5 per month and upgrading, my question is will it be worth it?
Will I see a REAL difference in speed?
Im using Win 2000 PRO and am going to upgrade to explorer 6.
So will I be blow away and its really worth it, or should I stick with my 300K connection which is relatively quick.
I use Ethernet to connect also.

Hope someone can help.

And again brillant site!

I find that 300KBs - 750KBs is much more noticable than 750KBs - 1.5MBs.
I did notice a differance going from 1MBs -1.5MBs in Downloading (obviously) AND web pages which i wasnt expexting.
Value for money, i think having the 750KBs BB is the best choice.

im just greedy having 1.5MBs BB

[paulhouston]

I'm also thinking of upgrading from 300-750 extra cost of £7 for me though!
anyway what I would like to know is will there be much of a diferance in the Quality in watching live video like bbc news, and football.. the quality is ok in normal viewing, when I switch to play in full screen it is not that great and often locks up.. I'm running win xp pro, 512 ram, and cpu speed of 1600.
Thanks Paul.

[Maroon]

I must admit the stuff NTL sent throught the post was very weird.
I was on 600K told this would go up to 750K and I guess they were trying to get me to upgrade to 1.5M?
Anyway, since I became a dad my free time (and hence downloading) has all but vanished, all their note suceeded in doing was downgrading me to £300K.
Doing that and whilst I was on the phone finally stopping Film Four, which I also no longer have time for, saved me over £150 per year.

[pop80_uk]

Thanks for the replies everyone!
I sometimes download programs like AVG and windows updates, ive been told you can down load MP3 and movies from the net! But no one ever seems to know the URL of the site!
Im not sure if my basic surfing warrents and extra £84 a year, suppose I could cancel my sky protection plan and upgrade instead! hmmmm.

Thanks again,

[Matth]

300k and 750k both have the same UPSTREAM limit of 128k, while "normal spec" ADSL is 512k down, 256k up - this can make a difference for gaming - also, upstream tends to be worse if using the STB.

From 300k to 750k, YOU have 2.5x the download speed, but is the server at the other end too busy to give you more?