Blueyonder/Telewest speed upgrades

MAllen · 1 Sep 2005 at 17:03

Amp34 said:
Id rather pay £30 and get the full AVG antivirus and firewall than a free one.

The point is that you don't need to spend any money. Legally you can use the products I listed without payment, as long as you are not a business.

Though I have purchased AVG+Firewall for my laptop, and have AVG SOHO licences covering my other PCs. This is due to business use.

(I'll now avoid dragging this thread any more off topic...)

bitboy · 1 Sep 2005 at 17:56

Now saying upgrades will start "from the end of September" on the BY website.

Thomss · 1 Sep 2005 at 19:46

thanks for the update.

MouseMat2004 · 2 Sep 2005 at 17:02

I'm doing really well so far, I havent rebooted the modem once! Besides the last 2 upgrades my modem has 'crashed' after they've done it.

Beansprout · 2 Sep 2005 at 20:48

Will there be any upload speed upgrades? I'm on the 1mbit at the moment and the 128k upload is quite annoying

MAllen · 2 Sep 2005 at 20:54

Beansprout said:
Will there be any upload speed upgrades? I'm on the 1mbit at the moment and the 128k upload is quite annoying

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=5472176&postcount=237
Try reading the previous page. :rolleyes:

Beansprout · 2 Sep 2005 at 23:39

Haha

Robert · 4 Sep 2005 at 20:46

On the BY site it says the Knowsley area will be upgraded on the 8th of sept. I'm just down the road from knowsley in st.helens, will I be included in this?

mcmad · 4 Sep 2005 at 21:25

http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/status/...CE90C892515B75452DDFCE6F5945AF.jsps304p:28009

I assume this is infastructure work prior to upgrading the modem settings..

zetec452 · 4 Sep 2005 at 21:36

Sheffield isn't even on the list. Typical

Vertigo · 4 Sep 2005 at 22:24

Robert said:
On the BY site it says the Knowsley area will be upgraded on the 8th of sept.

No it doesn't. There is currently no upgrade schedule and it won't start until the end of September anyway.

mcmad said:
I assume this is infastructure work prior to upgrading the modem settings.

Looks like it to me too.

Robert · 7 Sep 2005 at 12:53

No news from anyone?

Beansprout · 7 Sep 2005 at 17:59

Regional upgrading of our networks takes place from the end of September and will be completed in early 2006.

And the status page

I don't think in 3 days you'll have any more info...come back in 3 or 4 weeks....

wolvotim · 7 Sep 2005 at 20:18

Rang telewest today and the call centre guy said the upgrade program starts the last week in Sept and finishes Jan 2006 but didn’t have any idea when my area was gona be done

Beansprout · 7 Sep 2005 at 20:22

That's because it's months away.

Give 'em a break, guys, or they'll never get it done

brocksta · 7 Sep 2005 at 21:09

woot, started at 512mb, now upgrading again to 4mb, i love blueyonder!!!

bigred · 7 Sep 2005 at 21:14

approx rollout plan i found...

Code:

A rollout plan
AreaApprox Date
Sheffield03/09/2005
Bristol05/09/2005
Birmingham07/09/2005
Walsall09/09/2005
Sandwell11/09/2005
Bath13/09/2005
Trowbridge15/09/2005
Barnsley17/09/2005
Coatbridge19/09/2005
Arbroath21/09/2005
Cheltenham23/09/2005
Chelmsford25/09/2005
Blackpool27/09/2005
Basildon01/10/2005
Bradford03/10/2005
Doncaster05/10/2005
Edinburgh07/10/2005
East Fife09/10/2005
Bracknell11/10/2005
East Kilbride11/10/2005
Dundee13/10/2005
Dudley15/10/2005
Dumbarton17/10/2005
Glasgow19/10/2005
Halifax21/10/2005
Gloucester23/10/2005
Staverton25/10/2005
Rangeworthy27/10/2005
Brighouse29/10/2005
Harthill31/10/2005
Livingston02/11/2005
Liverpool04/11/2005
Liverpool06/11/2005
St Helens08/11/2005
Keighley10/11/2005
Knowle12/11/2005
Kirkcaldy14/11/2005
Maidstone16/11/2005
Maidenhead18/11/2005
Slough20/11/2005
Gillingham22/11/2005
Medway24/11/2005
Uddingston26/11/2005
Southend28/11/2005
Rotherham30/11/2005
Perth02/12/2005
Preston04/12/2005
Wolverhampton  06/12/2005
Bromsgrove08/12/2005
Newcastle10/12/2005
Wakefield09/01/2006
Weston-Super-Mare11/01/2006
Wigan13/01/2006
Illkley15/01/2006
Telford17/01/2006
Castleford19/01/2006
Warminster21/01/2006
Hayes23/01/2006
London25/01/2006

Robert · 7 Sep 2005 at 21:27

Damn. 8th november here.

Or is that just a "plan"

.

mmj_uk · 7 Sep 2005 at 21:54

bigred said:
approx rollout plan i found...

Where did you get that? I should've been upgraded four days ago.

bigred · 7 Sep 2005 at 22:20

Someone posted it on one of the blueyonder newsgroups. It looks as if it's been pasted from a spreadsheet or table - possibly leaked from by.

If you look at the blueyonder status page it shows a lot of scheduled maintainence, presumeably capacity upgrades, before 10mbit is introduced.

Theres reports of some people already receiving the upgrade, only for it to disappear a few days later. They must be testing the capacity or still doing trials.

We'll just have to wait and see