ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase - Page 88

markknell · 24-10-2005, 01:05

Just for the fun of it I typed in the url for the speedtest, which can be found here:http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/sp...c2d7e44bfe1f38

Also the cache server address does start 62.252 - If he's taking the pee, it's a good long one. We just need someone else from Luton to confirm !

Robc66 · 24-10-2005, 01:08

Wow maybe the upgrades have actually started?

markknell · 24-10-2005, 01:17

Dazzuko, maybe you should post a screen shot of your modem config as well and then people maybe a little more convinced.

Just a thought.

24-10-2005, 07:59

OK

Having made some phone calls this morning, I might be about to withdraw what i said about the upload.

Now who looks

Safeman · 24-10-2005, 08:32

just to confirm the NTL 10mb is rolling out in east London a friend has just been upgraded to 10MB

yer nice one · 24-10-2005, 08:34

has NTL released any offical statement about this ?

Safeman · 24-10-2005, 08:39

i have not seen anythink am going to give them a bell after see if i can get any info he has deffo been upgraded doh

yer nice one · 24-10-2005, 08:42

will it be like the last upgrades where we can maually upgrad using the ntl web page..

Is NTL doing area's ? I thought they would release country wide like they did on the 1.5 and 3mb upgrades..

cheers

Safeman · 24-10-2005, 08:44

i hope so when i was last on 1mb i just unplugged the modem and 3mb when rebooted but the funny thing is they never sent me a letter or email it had been out for a bit only when i phone the lady on the phone she said to do that lol hope its the same where you just unplugged modem reboot sorted

SMHarman · 24-10-2005, 09:12

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Originally Posted by Safeman

but the funny thing is they never sent me a letter or email

I never look at my NTL email account so it would never reach me there, and a mail out to all customers, or a targeted one would be pretty expensive, 20+p to mail it, plus the cost to print eac batch etc. Do you want to add that to the cost of your BB bill?

Spurs007 · 24-10-2005, 09:12

Well I can confirm now that I have been testing the new speeds for the past week, giving feedback on speeds, and any other issues, and have constantly been downloading at 8mb speeds, email copied below, link to the speed result page, and my feedback page removed:

Quote:

Dear Customer,

Thank you for volunteering to take part in our Quality of Service Survey.
You'll be pleased to know that you have been accepted to take part.

In order to provide feedback you should click on the link below.
http://www.esmaker.com/nx/Public/SurveyNX.aspx? ( link edited)Please save this link to your favourites.
No password is required for this link however you should enter your name each time you use the form so that we include you in the prize draw for the 512Mb MP3 player.

Each time you log on to the internet (specifically in the evening) over the next 7 days (17 -23 October) we would be grateful if you could open this page and use it to log any issues you experience with your ntl Internet services.

Please note that we have no specific tests for you to run during this period. We merely wish to track your personal experience and opinion of our service when being used as normal. The good news is that we will be applying a significant increase to the speed of your Broadband service early this week and this will be noticeable.Please note there is an additional comments field so please let us know what you think.

You can also log issues as soon as they occur and click submit so that we can compare the time when you submit this with ntl information.

Alternatively, you can take a note of what time any issues occurred and let us know .

If you have no issues during your internet session then please tick the "NO ISSUES" box before you log off.

Thanks again for taking part.

regards
Stephen McDonald
Product Development Manager
ntl: Internet

And then:

Quote:

As part of our survey we'd like some of our triallists to run some speed tests throughout the course of the week and let us know what speed of service you see on your broadband.

The websites below are UK based and therefore will provide a gauge of the speed you are achieving throughout the week.
Please use all of them at least twice in the week so that we can see what happens.
It might also be interesting to try these when the internet is at it's quietest and busiest times (morning and evening) if you get a chance so that you can see what difference internet traffic makes to user experience.
Feel free to use them as often as you wish and let me know the result at the end of the week (or by return e-mail if you prefer).

I'll send a table for feedback in a separate e-mail which you may wish to use as a way of sending the data as a single report.

Please note that none of the speed tests are perfect and that they are not always available (which is why I've suggested using three)
There are a variety of factors that can affect the result, but these sites are useful as a tool to see what happens on your broadband service

I can post speed test results if needed, and yes I'm in the Herts area, which comes under Luton. I've been very happy so far, I just hope they dont take it away now the trial has ended

markknell · 24-10-2005, 09:20

512k upload sounds pretty good although 1mb would of been better I'm not one to complain. Any increase is welcomed.

In terms of download rate, it will be interesting to see what averages people will get. If, at the moment, we are only seeing 8mb how on earth can NTL advertise the product as 10mb. Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing NTL or complaining.

I guess we need to see more results before jumping on the NTL bashing wagon

Rone · 24-10-2005, 09:28

Well we all know adsl drops over distance, its not the same with cable surely?

Ignition · 24-10-2005, 09:28

Just to point out this is trials not the commercial rollout!

Have to point this out before too many people complain about a product that isn't even released yet.

SMHarman · 24-10-2005, 09:34

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Originally Posted by Rone

Well we all know adsl drops over distance, its not the same with cable surely?

No but maintaining high speeds gives more congestion. Think of the pipe from your house to the network as a lane on a motorway. Now NTL have just changed the speed limit sticker, so now instead of doing 30 mph you can do 100mph. Now a congested road with everyone doing 30 results in everyone moving along steadily at 30 and getting there in the end. If you try to drive at 100mph on the motorway (before you get nicked) you will find you regularly have to slow to 60-70 when slower moving traffic (or in a network scenareo - traffic) is in front of you. Hence up to 10Mb. You should find at 3am when no-one else is on the road / network you can easily keep to 100mph / 10Mb, but at 6pm when everyone is going home there is no chance, even though the speed limit says it is OK to do so.