NTL 10MB

Carl · 21 Dec 2006 at 11:58

Anyone doing it? Weve just applied and ill be on 10mb in less than an hour they say!

Apprently its only for the longest broadband customers, we have it free for a month because i think thier testing it out then its £10 extra a month after that.

Anyone else gone for it? Heres more information for NTL users...

http://www.ntl.com/mediacentre/press/display.asp?id=797

Kol · 21 Dec 2006 at 12:18

10Mb? I've been on 10Mb for a few months now and it's awesome. I love being able to download items quicker than they can be played etc.

I see they're slowly intending all packages to be a minimum of 10Mb, shouldn't be long till I'm on 20Mb then if 3Mb customers are going to be 10Mb eventually. Should be interesting, however, that article is from 2005.

james.miller · 21 Dec 2006 at 12:21

i've been on 10mb for....i dunno, a long time anyway. since they rolled it out. infact it was about this time last year i think

http://forums.ntlhell.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=19521&pid=140056&st=0&#entry140056

:cool:

no real problems at all. It's gone down on me once, but that's because i paid the bill late

LoadsaMoney · 21 Dec 2006 at 12:27

james.miller said:
no real problems at all. It's gone down on me once,

Ohh err.

Thought they were rolling out Traffic Shaping/throttling.

Yup they are Traffic Shaping now, NTL said they were introuducing it a while back.

james.miller · 21 Dec 2006 at 12:29

i really shouldn't have said that, should i? lol

shaping? yeah, they seem to be. nothing in my area atm though

LoadsaMoney · 21 Dec 2006 at 12:31

james.miller said:
i really shouldn't have said that, should i? lol

shaping? yeah, they seem to be. nothing in my area atm though

Nope lol, not when im around.

Yeah my mates on NTL's 10mb, and hes not experienced any shaping yet either.

Kol · 21 Dec 2006 at 12:40

LoadsaMoney said:
Nope lol, not when im around.

Yeah my mates on NTL's 10mb, and hes not experienced any shaping yet either.

Me neither

Phemo · 21 Dec 2006 at 15:50

I've been on NTL 10mbit for a little over a year now. No shaping in my area either but then I only ever do big downloads overnight. Always get 1200KB/sec though.

iMacMart · 21 Dec 2006 at 17:07

Same here, no issues at all, get full bandwidth 24/7 with little or no downtime!

dbmzk1 · 21 Dec 2006 at 19:42

Been on 10mb for over a year and faster too while they have been trialling other speeds. Fantastic performance and great service too. Don't know why so many have a problem with them really!

Its not shaped, throttled or otherwise slowed down - I get the full 1200kb/s+ 24/7.

ajm · 22 Dec 2006 at 10:39

Have you seen the date on the link you posted...Carl

Release date: 08 August 2005

Old news.

Carl · 22 Dec 2006 at 14:35

ajm said:
Have you seen the date on the link you posted...Carl

Release date: 08 August 2005

Old news.

Yes I saw the date, and it’s relevant to my situation...ajm

Well maybe its not old news to me? Find something more constructive to say and pull your finger out you’re *** while you’re at it... :rolleyes:

Sinque · 22 Dec 2006 at 14:55

Been on NTL 10mb for months now, only recently been getting reduced speeds when downloading a lot of things. From 1.2mb/s to 300kb/s at max

james.miller · 22 Dec 2006 at 14:57

well it might sound rude Carl but everything you posted in that first post was factually wrong. its been out over a year, it was released at £39.99 and actually was reduced to 34.99 and has stayed that price for around 11 months. well ok, its now £35.00. it was never just for the longest-server customers, it's not increasing by £10 and unless there's never been 10mb in your area i have no idea how you dont know about it.....it's been on the website since day one, and i get letters thru the door every month telling me about the 10mb line i'm already on.

Honestly, i cant believe you dont know about it. Neither did ajm but think about it.....if you did actually read the date, you'd know it wasnt anything new or a 'trial before they up the price'. We arent stupid

Carl · 22 Dec 2006 at 14:58

Sinque said:
Been on NTL 10mb for months now, only recently been getting reduced speeds when downloading a lot of things. From 1.2mb/s to 300kb/s at max

I've been doing speed tests on http://www.speedtest.net/ and it's been going from 3mb to 6.5mb download. Were as before it was a good 4mb constantly.

Not sure really..

Carl · 22 Dec 2006 at 14:59

james.miller said:
well it might sound rude Carl but everything you posted in that first post was factually wrong. its been out over a year, it was released at £39.99 and actually was reduced to 34.99 and has stayed that price for around 11 months. well ok, its now £35.00. it was never just for the longest-server customers, it's not increasing by £10 and unless there's never been 10mb in your area i have no idea how you dont know about it.....it's been on the website since day one, and i get letters thru the door every month telling me about the 10mb line i'm already on.

Honestly, i cant believe you dont know about it. Neither did ajm but think about it.....if you did actually read the date, you'd know it wasnt anything new or a 'trial before they up the price'. We arent stupid

True true! Thanks for clearing it up... I was excited though, I guess NTL was just feeding me angel delight?

00bob00 · 22 Dec 2006 at 15:00

I'm pretty sure i've been experiencing traffic shaping during peak hours (obviously) mainly because when i play games like CS, my ping will change from a low 20 to a high 60-70. My download speeds also reduce by at least half.

i think come new year, weren't they going to start introducing 25mb?

that's a little bit of new news for you

Sinque · 22 Dec 2006 at 15:02

james.miller · 22 Dec 2006 at 15:02

Carl said:
True true! Thanks for clearing it up... I was excited though, I guess NTL was just feeding me angel delight?

its 10mb! and its great. just wait till they start ramping up speeds again, starting the end of the month so the rumours say

Carl · 22 Dec 2006 at 15:05