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Originally Posted by shadowsparx
my ubr was suppose to be upgraded and the line but i dont know if it has im in north london and currently theres loads of ubr upgrades and high utilisation is of the charts can anyone tell me if ubr's near me have been upgraded.and isit worth me switchin to ntl to gt the 200kb upload more from my current 384kb upload, reason for this being i play alote of xbox live and need upload.
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You can't switch from BY to ntl packages at the moment as they still aren't unified.
Xbox Live is fine with 384kbps unless you're hosting. If it sucks playing at the moment it's a symptom of the high utilisation.
The upgrade strategies for ntl and Telewest have been quite different, and it may surprise to know that ntl have adopted the more expensive and forward thinking strategy.
Telewest have been wringing as much as possible out of as little expensive as possible by maximising efficiency on their network, while ntl have dipped into the wallet and been laying new fibre and splitting nodes.
For the geeks Telewest have been installing second downstreams in areas on the channel above the existing one to relieve downstream congestion and employing 16QAM upstreams to relieve upstream congestion. ntl have been employing (belated) 256QAM downstream upgrades which were done on Telewest a while ago, but they've also been doing extensive resegmentation, both removing nodal combining and a lot of new fibre and full node builds.
Pushing fibre deeper in the network is something that has to be done sooner or later, Telewest were doing their level best to avoid doing it due to lack of cash while ntl had the budget, bit the bullet, and got the fibre into the ground.