NTL speed / usage increases - June 1

Rotty · 25 Apr 2006 at 14:16

being reported several places

2mb goes to 4mb ( £24.99 )

10mb goes uncapped

Nismo · 25 Apr 2006 at 14:37

Ooo 4MB would be nice

nands · 25 Apr 2006 at 15:16

that would be fine, I am currently on the 2mb. I wonder what the 1mb will go to - I get nagged to downgrade/save money!

Rotty · 25 Apr 2006 at 15:36

no change to 1mb

wonder if they may shoot themselves in the foot here at 10mb users downgrade to 4mb

GuruJockStrap · 25 Apr 2006 at 15:51

That would be a welcome upgrade!

Anyone know whether it'll be capped? Come to think of it, does the 2Mb have any useage caps?

Jamauk · 25 Apr 2006 at 16:00

Any ideas if they will then replace the modems that aren’t capable of getting the full 10Mbit. I'm currently on the 2Mbit and have been considering going to the full 10Mbit option for a while now, the only thing that stops me is that I have one of the old NTL 100 cable modems that I've had for about 4-5 years now.

Rotty · 25 Apr 2006 at 16:02

GuruJockStrap said:
That would be a welcome upgrade!

Anyone know whether it'll be capped? Come to think of it, does the 2Mb have any useage caps?

no caps on any speeds

nands · 25 Apr 2006 at 17:20

It certainly looks like this is the way forward, they have a cheap package a middle package and a top package, the cost doesn't change but the speed does.

I thought that something would be happening as the 1, 2 ... 10 was bit of a leap!

Kol · 25 Apr 2006 at 18:20

That looks promising.

ajm · 25 Apr 2006 at 20:01

Do you have a link to this info?

Rotty · 25 Apr 2006 at 20:41

ajm said:
Do you have a link to this info?

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/article/255/ntl-broadband-4mb-speed-upgrade-and-10mb-goes-unlimited

Phemo · 25 Apr 2006 at 21:25

Potential traffic shaping, now that's not good. Thankfully I've got both ADSL and cable so at least I can get a pretty reasonable service out of two crippled services combined

Rich · 25 Apr 2006 at 21:30

Most ISP's are going the way of traffic shaping. As long as it is implemented sensibly then im pretty happy with that. I.E Be able to hammer my newsgroups between 2 and 7 am and be more restricted during peak hours and allow for normal traffic. I also think they should only do it "where needed" i.e where other customers are impacted. I think thats pretty fair.

Vertigo · 25 Apr 2006 at 21:59

Rotty said:
being reported several places

2mb goes to 4mb ( £24.99 )

10mb goes uncapped

If true that would be rather funny. With the NTL/TW merger, all the doom-mongers were predicting that TW would "inherit" the NTL capped services, whereas it now looks like NTL may follow Telewest's lead with the 10MB service

Haly · 25 Apr 2006 at 22:33

Hmm interesting. Been thinking of leaving NTL recently as they don't really seem like great value for money anymore but not so sure now.

james.miller · 25 Apr 2006 at 22:37

Jamauk said:
Any ideas if they will then replace the modems that aren’t capable of getting the full 10Mbit. I'm currently on the 2Mbit and have been considering going to the full 10Mbit option for a while now, the only thing that stops me is that I have one of the old NTL 100 cable modems that I've had for about 4-5 years now.

my ntl100 works fine on 10mb mate

ajm · 26 Apr 2006 at 09:01

Thanks Rotty

nands · 26 Apr 2006 at 10:14

Without sounding thick - what is traffic shaping? I assume it is a 'speed' restriction at busy times, am I right?

Uhtred · 26 Apr 2006 at 11:09

i almost never get over 4mb so i will probably downgrade!

Rotty · 26 Apr 2006 at 15:03

nands said:
Without sounding thick - what is traffic shaping? I assume it is a 'speed' restriction at busy times, am I right?

and restriction on certain types of download P2P , newsgroups etc during busy times

NTL speed / usage increases - June 1

Woman of Honour