Check This Out - ntl 100Mbps - Page 5

dragon · 08-02-2006, 17:26

Fair enough Ignition I hope with all the congestion caused by 10mbit they will consider taking measures to ensure stablity of the current offerings before even thinking about faster speeds.

Ignition · 08-02-2006, 20:15

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Originally Posted by dragon

Fair enough Ignition I hope with all the congestion caused by 10mbit they will consider taking measures to ensure stablity of the current offerings before even thinking about faster speeds.

Doesn't matter different technologies.

Jazz · 09-02-2006, 00:28

Wonder how long before NTL start rolling this out (or something faster than 10MB) as I think the cable companies pride themselves on being one step ahead of ADSL. It has just come out that by the end of March most exchanges will MAXDSL enabled so many users will be able to get upto 8MB speeds. Though it remains to be seen how reliable this will be

Chrysalis · 09-02-2006, 01:10

Hmm would it be feasible for them to rollout this new tech as a backbone for 10mbit so keeping the same service but at a higher quality level?

dayloon · 09-02-2006, 09:07

But haven't NTL said that quote is 1 year old ? I find it hard to believe they are currently doing trials of 100mbit broadband

handyman · 09-02-2006, 15:30

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Originally Posted by Ignition

P.P.S. Any service delivering 100Mbit that isn't being done over BPON or GPON will only, if you're lucky, give you near 100Mbit to your next door neighbour at 5:01am on a Sunday with the wind blowing in the right direction and a swiftly risen sun shining on your back.

I have 2 computers linked through about 1.5m of patch cable and a 100mbs router. I don't even get 100mbs between them.

Consumers won't ever be able to comprehend that and will start complaining whn it goes below 80mbs (if they could even get that high)

To be able to provide consistent 100mbs speed the network would have to be at least 200mbs. (guess)

fluff · 09-02-2006, 19:34

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Originally Posted by handyman

I have 2 computers linked through about 1.5m of patch cable and a 100mbs router. I don't even get 100mbs between them.

Consumers won't ever be able to comprehend that and will start complaining whn it goes below 80mbs (if they could even get that high)

To be able to provide consistent 100mbs speed the network would have to be at least 200mbs. (guess)

Er, I got 11mb/s on my old 100mbit ADSL router

Now I get 23mb/s on my 1000mbit router. As for BBB, the swedish ISP, speeds seem very stable. I can usually get about 900kb/s from a BB 100/10 user

Griffin · 09-02-2006, 21:03

This 100mb/s speed sounds very good, lets hope they dont stick a stupid cap on it (75gb would be used in as little as 2.5 hours approx)

AbyssUnderground · 09-02-2006, 22:48

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Originally Posted by Griffin

This 100mb/s speed sounds very good, lets hope they dont stick a stupid cap on it (75gb would be used in as little as 2.5 hours approx)

A cap of 1TB would be more respectable

Ignition · 10-02-2006, 09:04

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Originally Posted by handyman

I have 2 computers linked through about 1.5m of patch cable and a 100mbs router. I don't even get 100mbs between them.

Consumers won't ever be able to comprehend that and will start complaining whn it goes below 80mbs (if they could even get that high)

To be able to provide consistent 100mbs speed the network would have to be at least 200mbs. (guess)

To be able to provide consistent 100Mbps will require way more than 200Mbps to be shared out unless you have like 5 houses on there.

If it's 100Mbps of ethernet level bandwidth and you get 11MB/s on it be happy. Just to point out no-one on 10Mbps gets 10Mbps people see 8.8 - 9.2.

Patch cable != crossover cable by the way which will almost certainly be what is linking your PCs to the router. Though its' ports might auto-cross I guess.

handyman · 10-02-2006, 09:22

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Originally Posted by Ignition

Patch cable != crossover cable by the way which will almost certainly be what is linking your PCs to the router. Though its' ports might auto-cross I guess.

Sorry by patch cable I meant short ethernet cable.

Derek · 10-02-2006, 12:07

A bit more info from here

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Originally Posted by Chetnet

“We are delighted to have the support of our technology partner ARRIS in order to demonstrate the significant potential of our cable network,” said Kevin Baughan ntl’s Director of Network Strategy. “Following a highly successful trial in our labs, we are looking forward to commencing field trials of the ARRIS FlexPath technology in March.”

Ignition · 10-02-2006, 13:11

Yay something official finally.

*Awaits the announcement regarding ethernet over coax as well.

BTW if there's still analogue in your area I wouldn't be expecting to be in the trial of this.

cnewton2k · 10-02-2006, 17:18

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Originally Posted by Ignition

If it's 100Mbps of ethernet level bandwidth and you get 11MB/s on it be happy. Just to point out no-one on 10Mbps gets 10Mbps people see 8.8 - 9.2

First of all i do get full speed, downloads of about 1.20MB/s all of the time, TBH cant fault their service @ the mo @ all.

Also i found this which might be of intrested, it actually quotes some bod @ NTL

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/83464/nt...broadband.html

BBKing · 10-02-2006, 17:28

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Originally Posted by Ignition

Tis not DOCSIS 3.

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ARRIS FlexPath products use the same Packet Bonding technique widely reported as the CableLabs® chosen approach for DOCSIS® 3.0.

Ig, I pwn yr a55. Don't forget it.

I always have a tinge of disquiet over ARRIS, not because of their technology (which I have no experience of, except to know that with Cisco and Motorola and someone else who escapes me they're the big boys of cable modems) but because their name is cockney rhyming slang for 'bottom'. So it's official, ntl are installing a load of bottoms.