Telewest announce 10Mb broadband speed - Page 6

cara08 · 23-08-2005, 18:49

yes it`s been ÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£25 since i first had BB and it was 512, i`ll be paying ÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£25 for 4 meg soon tho.

andymt · 23-08-2005, 19:39

so u just rang them up and they told u that?
i might do that.
did u tell them yr region, or is it the same for everywhere?

cara08 · 23-08-2005, 20:10

yes i called and asked when we were getting the upgrade, just had to give my postcode and they told me it could be as early as next week, but by the middle of sept for my area

Chrysalis · 23-08-2005, 21:02

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Originally Posted by Chris W

you pay ÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£25 for 1meg :O ouch!

Well hes paying for content as well as speed, he isnt bound to 30gig.

andymt · 29-08-2005, 09:06

"I don't want to alarm anyone, but my friend's dad said he had an email about the speed increases, claiming that they (blueyonder) would increase the speeds for a month or two and then put them back down again, asking customers to pay if they want to keep the faster speed.

I do realise that the blueyonder page has no mention of this and it could be just a rumour, but can anyone say for sure that this isn't true?"

Found this on digitalspy blueyonder forums.
Any truth?

30-08-2005, 10:30

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Originally Posted by andymt

Found this on digitalspy blueyonder forums.
Any truth?

You already had several responses there... do you not look at the user names and realise a % of users are reg'd on both forums and you will get the same response here as you do there?

I have followed every upgrade on BY for about the last 5-6 years and have never had them change an offer once available - except where it is quite clearly promoted as a limited/temporary offer.

I think Trading Standards/Advertising Standards would have had a few things to say if they had done this - and the press would have had a field day ripping them apart!!

andymt · 01-09-2005, 08:10

well there is no update to the evenfaster page yet, although i assume every1 nos that-they are all using the post on digitalspy as it is better at the moment!
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hey everyone look at telewest website loads of new stuff there as far as speed upgrade is concerned.

"regional upgrade commencing from 20 september"

alkenstein · 01-09-2005, 11:04

from ignition:

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384 is fine for 10Mbit from the ACK POV. Really pants from the point of view of the huge asymettry but fine for ACKs, no real pushing it involved.

I'm curious, any idea how many Kbits of the 384Kbit upload bandwidth used by other apps would start having a negative impact on the 10Mbit download speed due to lack of upload bandwidth for ACKs?

andymt · 01-09-2005, 11:45

it must b ok, as bt r soon gonna have 8mb, and they will keep the standard upload speed of 256.

384 is ok, although i do agree when ppl say that because its cable, not dsl, and telewest can cope, maybe they should have upload speed of 512.

The only reason they dont is cuz the vast majority of ppl, when they look to by bb they look at downspeed. Upstream speed does not usually come into the equation.

Ignition · 01-09-2005, 18:48

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Originally Posted by alkenstein

from ignition:

I'm curious, any idea how many Kbits of the 384Kbit upload bandwidth used by other apps would start having a negative impact on the 10Mbit download speed due to lack of upload bandwidth for ACKs?

Depends what you are using to download, if http more is needed, if newsgroups with multiple connections less, if P2P less still as 10mbit of download with tons of p2p connections will use a good slice of the 384k.

Piece of string question really.

01-09-2005, 21:38

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Originally Posted by andymt

well there is no update to the evenfaster page yet, although i assume every1 nos that-they are all using the post on digitalspy as it is better at the moment!
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hey everyone look at telewest website loads of new stuff there as far as speed upgrade is concerned.

"regional upgrade commencing from 20 september"

Why is your page different from mine?? "Regional upgrading of our networks takes place from the end of September"

barri · 07-09-2005, 00:46

o yer i carnt wait

manic marauder · 15-09-2005, 14:24

i want to no when will telewest start and upgrade to the north of england i want my 10 meg line and im getting ****ed off with waiting for it

jtwn · 15-09-2005, 15:06

Sorry, the world doesn't work that way - they'll give it when they want to give it to you, not when you want.

manic marauder · 15-09-2005, 15:30

yer but if us peeps just left them alone nothing would get done at a slower rate