[Merged] Telewest Broadband to increase speeds

Originally Posted by Defiant

Okay I give up I made the whole thing up for the sake of it

Believe what you want I'm moving on

So, either TW have Cable Modems with such poor control that they allow customers to download at 4Mb (and 1Mb customers at 2Mb), or these people are in error - possibly the software they are using to measure the speed is inaccurate.

I know which I think is more likely. Get them to try rdhw's speedtest and post the result.

[Florence]

MRTG of a telewest customer on 1mb look at the speeds he has in places.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Pem

So, either TW have Cable Modems with such poor control that they allow customers to download at 4Mb (and 1Mb customers at 2Mb), or these people are in error - possibly the software they are using to measure the speed is inaccurate.

I know which I think is more likely. Get them to try rdhw's speedtest and post the result.

Or maybe they were relying on the speed estimate given by IE, which can be wildly inaccurate (I have been told by IE that I am downloading stuff at nearly 700K a second before).

[Chris W]

Originally Posted by kits

MRTG of a telewest customer on 1mb look at the speeds he has in places.

I think i am missing your point, but the highest download speed i can see on there is 129.9 kB/s which is only 1039kbps, only just over the 1mb limit. Highest upload is admittedly 44.7 kB/s which is 357kbps, but i don't see any evidence of him getting 500kB/s download speeds...

[Florence]

Originally Posted by monkeybreath

I think i am missing your point, but the highest download speed i can see on there is 129.9 kB/s which is only 1039kbps, only just over the 1mb limit. Highest upload is admittedly 44.7 kB/s which is 357kbps, but i don't see any evidence of him getting 500kB/s download speeds...

You are mixing the posts I didn't say he got 500K that was for the 2mb connection that Defiant posted.If you read the link it said 1mb connection he hasn't downloaded much for a while but I kow he was last night, so I would keep looking.

[Ignition]

Those stats don't really mean that much - they are on the cable modem's ethernet port for a start, before the proper throttling takes place, also the burst speed noted is nothing unusual due to the cable methodology.

Sorry but any perceived looseness in the way TW police traffic is just that - perceived. Both companies throttle in exactly the same way and where ntl users are using the surfboard modem they are using exactly the same equipment. Get Dan to do some MRTG graphs based on his cable modem's RF port and DOCSIS up and downstreams and you'll probably see a slightly different story on upstream once it's been through the leaky bucket and rate capping engine.

[etccarmageddon]

Originally Posted by icanadvise

Read the original post on DS and then read my earlier post here http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...8&postcount=35

I thought you had more idea of what was going on Etc!

This isn't about Telewest - its about NTL !

oh in that case - can someone at NTL confirm this?

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[Foo Fighter]

Ntl are surely going to follow this move arent they?

Although this company is run by crazy mindless tarts, they gotta have a little bit of sense?

[Defiant]

Originally Posted by Foo Fighter

they gotta have a little bit of sense?

Er nope

[rnb14]

Its been confirmed!!

http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyond...age=bbs_faster

[Defiant]

Originally Posted by rnb14

Its been confirmed!!

http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyond...age=bbs_faster

I feel sick. Why of why wont this bloody government open up the networks for some fair competition.

I mean come on look at this. What do we get. I'll tell ya. We get price increase's and cap's. They'll be giving us Mugs soon to rub it in

[Tezcatlipoca]

Originally Posted by rnb14

Its been confirmed!!

http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyond...age=bbs_faster

Whoah, so it has.

blueyonder broadband 750Kb The standard blueyonder broadband service will increase in speed from 512Kb to 750Kb, but still cost from only £25 per month (£27.99 if no other Telewest service is taken).

blueyonder broadband 1.5Mb The faster 1Mb service also gets a 50 per cent bandwidth boost to 1.5Mb, for the current price of £35 per month (£37.99 if no other Telewest service is taken).

blueyonder broadband 3Mb The flagship 2Mb service becomes the UK's first residential 3Mb service, offering speeds up to 60 times faster than dial-up access, from £50 a month (£52.99 if no other Telewest service is taken).

Telewest's prices stay the same, & the speeds go up.

NTL's prices go up, & the speeds stay the same.




I wish I was in a TW area instead of NTL

** Dreams of the "merger" turning out to be TW taking over NTL - and providing the same speeds

[Foo Fighter]

Right complaint email time, whos high up and needs abuse?

[Florence]

Originally Posted by Pem

** Dreams of the "merger" turning out to be TW taking over NTL - and providing the same speeds

Best prey for that coz if the NTL boffins have it we are all lost and might aswell move over to ADSL.....