New Speed Upgrades 8th March. (Part 3) - Page 3

Stop It · 05-03-2005, 18:03

Hmm, some good new at least, although its going to be interesting to see when Im set to be upgraded, Ill patiently wait at my letterbox past the 8th then

Albie · 05-03-2005, 18:03

Yay! This is good news. I can't wait.

bopdude · 05-03-2005, 18:16

It'll be interesting to see how much of the everyday events, ie d/ling / surfing etc etc will be improved on, if at all, what I mean is, that we might be getting the capability to surf faster but can the sites we frequent cope with our demands

interesting times ahead, can't wait

fragless · 05-03-2005, 18:17

that is very good news.

Carth · 05-03-2005, 18:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrBen

I'm developing a data usage estimator/calculator at http://ben.cheetham.me.uk/data-usage-calculator

It's not quite finished but it should help you to get some idea of what you're using.

Ben

Just used that (cheers m8

) for a quick guide, comes out around 22 Gig (up + down), I play a fair amount of games online .... was wondering how much using Team Speak 4 hrs a day would add to it ? (although I expect I won't get near the cap anyway)

MrBen · 05-03-2005, 19:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by Carth

Just used that (cheers m8

) for a quick guide, comes out around 22 Gig (up + down), I play a fair amount of games online .... was wondering how much using Team Speak 4 hrs a day would add to it ? (although I expect I won't get near the cap anyway)

Thanks for the feedback Carth

I'm not familiar with Team Speak... is there a website? I'll then see what I can do

Ben

Tezcatlipoca · 05-03-2005, 19:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrBen

I'm not familiar with Team Speak... is there a website? I'll then see what I can do

http://www.goteamspeak.com/

encaser · 05-03-2005, 20:39

The rollout over possible months has me worried if my upgrade to 1.5mb is anything to go by, in that a mate who lives about 2 miles from me got his 3 months before I. Oh well, tick tock.

RustMan · 05-03-2005, 20:44

As the news item has it:

750K customers with a black PACE Set top box and want to change to the new 2MB speed, need to arrange with ntl a Set top box swap

... so as the 'owner' of a black PACE box, if I get a new STB as part of the deal does that mean that interactive TV will actually work?

Now that would be a worthwhile novelty ...

Pete

garyparson · 05-03-2005, 21:14

It does work better but it's not worth looking at anyway. Complete waste of time and money. I got my box swapped due to the pace box being a snap crackle and pop box. Just in time for the speed upgrades haha.

Does anyone know any areas that are not going to be switched on on the 8th? Or is this yet another case of 'coming soon'..

ian@huth · 05-03-2005, 21:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by Geoff Payne

Hi Ian

I've just tried netmeter following your post.

Networx actually does a lot more, and will give you up and down traffic totals on daily / weekly / monthly basis not just display current bitrates. I used it at home when my son got a web cam, to see how much traffic he was was generating. The 30 day trial was enough to establish typical traffic levels.

Geoff

NetMeter does all this as well. The website for it does not show its full potential.

If you right click the icon in the system tray or the graph and choose "totals" you get daily, weekly and monthly totals for both upload, download and combined. You can reset the data transferred section of the totals tab to check during a specific period. You can also set your allowance (either upload, download or total) in the alarm section to warn you and it gives projected totals and average per day left.

pdjkeelan · 05-03-2005, 22:34

The policy on the 2 & 3 Mbit services looks identical to that which they already have e.g. a soft-cap of 1GB/day where they will only disconnect you in the most extreme of circumstances if you degrade the network significantly for other users. I can understand them doing this, a hard cap would have been awful but i don't mind this soft cap. I feel sorry for 300k users but it's only a few ÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£ more and you will get more than double the current speed.

martikus · 05-03-2005, 22:38

Personally i'm looking forward to the new speeds and good on NTL for moving the date forward a bit. I was speaking to NTL tech support and they recon that coventry should be active if all goes well. can anyone from cable forum staff confirm this or was it just b/s by them? Anyway even if i have to wait ah well im on the 1.5m line and yes i will stay on it when the upgrade come through as i have my own website so the extra upload speed will come in handy. Bring it on!!!!!!

**Maggy** · 05-03-2005, 22:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by pdjkeelan

The policy on the 2 & 3 Mbit services looks identical to that which they already have e.g. a soft-cap of 1GB/day where they will only disconnect you in the most extreme of circumstances if you degrade the network significantly for other users. I can understand them doing this, a hard cap would have been awful but i don't mind this soft cap. I feel sorry for 300k users but it's only a few ÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£ more and you will get more than double the current speed.

To do what?At present I don't bother downloading anything much because it's too much hassle to wait for most large files especially video streaming.Of course if I just surf I may not hit the 3GB but I reckon with the amount of surfing I do it could still be rather tight not to run out of month before I run out of Cap.5 GB I could live with but 3 is a little low.It's not like I max out the system as a user after all.I don't really want 30GB but I don't want 3GB either.

Anyway this thread isn't really about the cap so back on topic.

ian@huth · 05-03-2005, 22:47

Owners of black Pace STBs on the 750k service will be upgraded to 1Mb until they have the STB changed. Wonder what upload speed they will give them?