*ALL* Speed Upgrade Discussion In Here Please - Page 35

DieDieMyDarling · 14-02-2005, 13:24

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Originally Posted by 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 ÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£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

An average mp3 file is about 4mb, so about 800 songs per month. Average game demo now is about 200mb though, so not many of those. Same with movie trailers etc.

It's not a lot, unless you really don't use the net much, which i guess is what the service is aimed at.

seaneeboy · 14-02-2005, 13:26

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Originally Posted by etccarmageddon

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

And the two times that's a problem are caps, and cheese

bmxbandit · 14-02-2005, 13:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by lemarsh

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

3 gig is about 3200 minutes of music at 128k, i.e. just over two whole days worth... if all you use the web for is music and basic browsing, then I would imagine thats enough.

seaneeboy · 14-02-2005, 13:32

An an entry level, it's not bad - I think i'm going to stick with it. if worst comes to worst and I end up going over I can live with 56k for a few days till the next months amount kicks in.

Bob · 14-02-2005, 13:38

I assume this will be a regon by region thing like before?

www.ntlworld.com/speedupgrade should be updated in the not to distant future?

sherer · 14-02-2005, 13:50

as long as ntl offer some way for you to check what your monthly usage is at.. it shouldn't be up to the end user to have to download a broadband meter it should be supplied from ntl..

hope fully we will get an official e-mail or letter from ntl soon with the details to confirm this

etccarmageddon · 14-02-2005, 14:01

3gig probably suits someone who just uses their connection for home banking plus surfing and the occasional download.

PC_Arcade · 14-02-2005, 14:05

Out of interest, ARE NTL actually going to communicate this to their customers?

If not (as is usual) then they'd better prepare tech support for one hell of a lot of "My internet's gone slow" phone calls from the 1000's of people who don't know about the newly enforced caps. Who then will know about them and in all likelyhood start to look round for uncapped providers. AOL stand to do very nicely out of this.

zitianaki · 14-02-2005, 14:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by jtwn

The ports aren't blocked on your router they would be blocked further down the line where you couldn't change it..

You can i use port fowarding and everythign works fine now i opend up a few ports and its working out great

Ignition · 14-02-2005, 14:34

Which kinda begs the question why not just stick the services on those ports on the inside rather than mapping external ports to different internal ones?

lardboy · 14-02-2005, 14:35

This has probably been asked and answered somewhere in the thousands of posts in this thread but I can't find anything useful with search so here goes.

What are the current upload speeds for 1.5Mb.

I thought it was 256 but I gather it is 128.

Which is it

etccarmageddon · 14-02-2005, 14:38

current upload is 64k for the ÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£18 product, 128 for the ÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£25 (750k) and 256 for the ÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£38 (1.5mb) one.

**Mick** · 14-02-2005, 14:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by lardboy

This has probably been asked and answered somewhere in the thousands of posts in this thread but I can't find anything useful with search so here goes.

What are the current upload speeds for 1.5Mb.

I thought it was 256 but I gather it is 128.

Which is it

1.5MB Upload Rate is 256K

lardboy · 14-02-2005, 14:43

Oh bum I was going to down grade from 3 Mb to 2 Mb to save money when the changes arrive but that will mean I'll be taking a hit on my up speed which will effect my gaming ping

LostintheNW · 14-02-2005, 14:47

But no one has said whether or not we can stay on our original speeds and stick with the soft cap - if its going to be a hard cap I would rather stay on 1.5meg