*ALL* Speed Upgrade Discussion In Here Please

[seaneeboy]

Apologies for one of a million n00b questions, but I'm still a little fuzzy on the cab differences - is the 3 gig cap going to be a hard cap, are they *all* going to be hard caps, or all soft, or a mix?

Thanks and sorry if it is in the article - I couldn't see it

Sean x
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Sherer> nah, you only need a samsung box for *over* 1 meg - the pace ones can run at one meg.

They could also install cable modems if things are looking tight.

[rmg]

Originally Posted by sherer

good news all round then.. listed as a soft cap so i assume it will be like now where if you go over it not alot happens unless you hammer it and take 30 GB a day for several days in a row..

Several Months in a row

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rmg.

[sherer]

from reading the link they are all soft caps and even shows a slight increase in the upload as well..

good news from NTL all round.. not sure if this is a soft cap because they have been listening to people from this forum and the user base or maybe NTL just couldn't cope with implementing a hard cap

[Nemesis]

Article has been corrected .... originally thought to be a soft cap, but the understanding is that it will be sold to the customer as a hard cap .....

[seaneeboy]

Aww drat, thanks nem.

[rmg]

56k after you hit the cap! that would be nasty!!!

Imagine it, you are in the middle of hosting a tense game of Halo2 and all of a sudden, whoops, cap exceeded!

[quadplay]

Originally Posted by sherer

my understanding is that you need to have a sumsung box for 1 MB or higher so my STB and most of the others in my area will need updating

Not quite. Pace boxes can handle 1MB, but over 1MB needs a Samsung.

[seaneeboy]

Originally Posted by rmg

56k after you hit the cap! that would be nasty!!!

Imagine it, you are in the middle of hosting a tense game of Halo2 and all of a sudden, whoops, cap exceeded!

Better than cutting you off completely

[Loop]

I was going to l;eave ntl broadband but now i know they not chargeing for the upgrade then thats ok and has for the cap if soft cap fine but if hard cap mmmm some times i dont even download 20 gig a month but other months can be about 40 to 50 gig so I will try see how I get on one thing makes me laught they do this increase but get cut backs on the engineers, they are needed if ntl have probs with there routers ect i seen many cutt backs with ntl closeing they payment shops ect longer on the phone longer to do they repairs or send any engineers out ie i got told they send an engineer out may 2004 now its feb 2005 still waiting but now my net has got its proper speed so i dont care now

[PC_Arcade]

Originally Posted by Nemesis

it will be sold to the customer as a hard cap .....

Depending on how you read that, that implies that it's only SOLD as a hard cap, not enforced as one

[rmg]

Originally Posted by PC_Arcade

Depending on how you read that, that implies that it's only SOLD as a hard cap, not enforced as one

Yea but any sort of major speed drop is classed as enforcement in my book...

[PC_Arcade]

Originally Posted by rmg

Yea but any sort of major speed drop is classed as enforcement in my book...

I hadn't read that at the time, well if that is the case, when it's confirmed NTL will lose me as a customer (not that they will care)

[lemarsh]

As a poor person on a 300k at present, but moving up to 1meg - the only thing that really concerns me (as well as most people) is the Cap.

3 gig seems out of line with the mighty 30 gig (for £8 more, plus double speed) - but before I think about upgrading to the new 2meg speed, how much info can you get for 3gig?

i.e. any chance of someone giving me a rough estimate of (to put it into a context we can all uinderstand) how many songs I could download (wait for the comments about depepends on song/singer etc etc etc).

thanks

Lee

[etccarmageddon]

Originally Posted by Nemesis

Article has been corrected .... originally thought to be a soft cap, but the understanding is that it will be sold to the customer as a hard cap .....

typical - you think it's soft and then it turns out it's gone hard.

[Nemesis]

Originally Posted by etccarmageddon

typical - you think it's soft and then it turns out it's gone hard.

not a problem, depending on whose viewpoint you have