Telewest 4mb to 10mb

[skynet777]

Originally Posted by Zeph

Hehe it's probably because more UK people are using the Speedtest than anybody else as they seems to be a strange breed that are obsessed by the speed of their Internet Connection... Did somebody say Penis Extension? My 4MBit suits me fine

I think all this 10 mb service is a bit of a con anyway, even if you did max out, a lot of the websites have resticted bandwidth anyway.

[SnoopZ]

Originally Posted by skynet777

I think all this 10 mb service is a bit of a con anyway, even if you did max out, a lot of the websites have resticted bandwidth anyway.

It's not all about websites. And my 10mbit performs far better on webpages than my sisters 2mbit.

[RealDiamond]

your upload speed is what makes the difference faster the upload the sooner the web site starts sending data to you

[adriano69]

sorry m8, just to clarify,

did telewest upgrade you for free to 10mb? or did you pay extra to your current supscription fee?

[djnerve]

Originally Posted by adriano69

sorry m8, just to clarify,

did telewest upgrade you for free to 10mb? or did you pay extra to your current supscription fee?

Hi mate! upgrade is free but i paid to start from like the 20th the day i wanted it so i paid £12 for that then the £10 from the month after

[adriano69]

^ was that 12/10 pounds ontop of your current bill of the 4mb?

[djnerve]

yes

[The Jackal]

Save yer money and stick with 4meg : 4meg and 10meg have the same upstream so in my opinion 4meg is better as you are capped @4meg you are less likely to saturate your upstream.

Ask yourself these questions :

* Where are you going to be spending this extra download bandwidth ? It can't be p2p as you already have the same amount of upstream and so will not gain too much... Ahhhh could it be a news server or other high availabilty source ?

* If so - it currently takes you ~3 hours to download a DVD but you want it an hour and 15 minutes - sounds cool : but after 24 hours you have downloaded near 18 DVD's and burnt 60Gigs of disk space - ask yourself do you really want to be spending your time sorting data and money on disk storage.

Personally I had 2 dedicated download machines - both high spec (they had to be) so that they could unrar / compress files without effecting download speeds.

Now that I've happily downgraded to 2meg I can do without that kind of grief and thinking how big a disk to buy.

Peace