[Merged] NTL Increasing BB Speeds Late Summer 2004

[andrew_wallasey]

I dont see there is a problem with the 1gb download cap i mean even if you use P2P that almost 2 films a day everyday. I don't use P2P but download a good amount of dance mixes from liverpool djs.

[Chrysalis]

not got a link but some friends of mine in a irc channel reset their modems and it downloaded a new config file and they got 3mbit ever since, that was today (well friday 30th). I guess it isn't official yet but it means telewest started updating things.

[Chrysalis]

Originally Posted by andrew_wallasey

I dont see there is a problem with the 1gb download cap i mean even if you use P2P that almost 2 films a day everyday. I don't use P2P but download a good amount of dance mixes from liverpool djs.

well those films wouldnt be very good quality, high compression xvid is usually 1-2 cds so 750mb to 1.5gig, a super video cd will be at least 3 cds.

[jtwn]

Just had a engineer round and asked him about the speed increase and after the usual 'i only work for them' protection said he expects it late July to September.

[Defiant]

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

well those films wouldnt be very good quality, high compression xvid is usually 1-2 cds so 750mb to 1.5gig, a super video cd will be at least 3 cds.

A good DVD movie can be on one xvid cd. Most new one's now mind are using ac3 sound which ends up putting them on two cd's

[OL1V3R]

Originally Posted by paulyoung666

i hope your source is right

Hmm, i think so, otherwise hes one evil engineer!

[OL1V3R]

Originally Posted by paulyoung666

probably c.s.

It was neither, my uncle is an engineer there! ..

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by OL1V3R

It was neither, my uncle is an engineer there! ..

oh well there you go , he must be right then

Cable forum have received a response from ntl's Bill Goodland tonight. I asked ntl last week when the new speed increases were announced that would there be a review on the 1GB cap limit at least for the 1.5MB speed tier.

Bill Goodland had this to say:-

Dear Mick,

Thanks for writing. Aizad has asked me to reply to you on his behalf. Many apologies for not getting back to you sooner - I hope you'll understand that we do get a fair amount of correspondence and it can take time to respond to each letter.

I'm glad that the visitors to the cableforum website are pleased with our planned speed increase. This is the third time we've increased customers' speeds (you may recall we increased our 128k service to 150k and our 512k service to 600k), underlining the good value of cable broadband.

At this point I donââ‚Âà ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t intend to increase our guidance on data usage †“ which is 1gb/day (although as Iâ₠¬ÃƒÆ’¢â€žÂ¢ve frequently said before, we wonââ‚Âà ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t contact customers who download more than this occasionally). We only contact continuous, very heavy downloaders who are likely to impact network performance †“ and in those cases ask customers to moderate their use.ââ‚ ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢

On the subject of data downloading †“ you may also have seen that many other ISPs have now introduced not just guidelines, but strict caps on data use. BT, Freeserve/Wanadoo, Telewest, Virgin and Tiscali are all now offering capped services, with others likely to follow.

I hope this is useful information.

Kind regards,

Bill Goodland
Director, Internet.

[Chrysalis]

hmm is Aizad in charge of everything to do with broadband?

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

hmm is Aizad in charge of everything to do with broadband?

Aizad Hussain, is Managing Director of ntl:home hes in charge of all of ntl:home.

[Florence]

Telewest Customers who used to have the 512K have been increased to 768K at no increase in price.

Wonder how that matches up in service then to NTLs

telewest are leading the way on speed with their upto 3mb speeds but will also have faster speads than NTL in the middle section.

[SMHarman]

And NTL have increased from 600k to 750 at no cost. So Telewest is 18k faster - whoooh.

Originally Posted by Kits

Telewest Customers who used to have the 512K have been increased to 768K at no increase in price.

Wonder how that matches up in service then to NTLs

Telewests is 750k - exactly the same as the new NTL speed.

[PC_Arcade]

And Telewest have no cap unlike NTL, looks like once again TW customers get the better deal. If I could switch I'd be there like a shot