NTL:Telewest rebranding and 50mb announcement.

sargatanas · 18 Nov 2006 at 18:22

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/...checkedMedia=asx&subtitles=hide&alreadySeen=1

gord · 18 Nov 2006 at 19:19

Indeed, well, we shall see.. currently Bulldog cant even get me 16meg out of my line so..

Phemo · 18 Nov 2006 at 21:02

gord said:
Indeed, well, we shall see.. currently Bulldog cant even get me 16meg out of my line so..

Well, NTL and Telewest don't use phone lines so that's irrelevant.

afraser2k · 18 Nov 2006 at 21:02

Will the 50 Mb be restricted with traffic shaping like the rest of the network? Not really worth the cost if it is.

FishThrower · 18 Nov 2006 at 21:21

they cant even get 10mbit right............ how the hell are they gonna manage it with 50mbit !?!?!

iMacMart · 18 Nov 2006 at 21:46

FishThrower said:
they cant even get 10mbit right............ how the hell are they gonna manage it with 50mbit !?!?!

Had 10meg for 6-8 months now and works fine?

Care to comment instead of blasting a service without backing it up with some form of rime or reason

afraser2k · 18 Nov 2006 at 22:30

Well from personal experience the 10 Mb service is very poor at times, whether that is just when they're doing maintenance/trials though is another matter.

There are a lot of complaints about the 10 Mb service and I don't think a lot of people will go for the 50 Mb until their general network improves a lot. Different areas will have different quality and I know Glasgow is very poor, probably overloaded from the number of users. The recent 20 Mb trial resulted in the rest of us experiencing very slow web browsing and downloads at the very least, some having very poor gaming speeds as well.

I hope that when they do eventually launch the 50 Mb service the rest of the network will be able to cope well without too many problems.

gord · 18 Nov 2006 at 22:32

Phemo said:
Well, NTL and Telewest don't use phone lines so that's irrelevant.

My distrust of communication services is not irrelevant.. im scorned! Not for life.. apparently they are doing something about it.. so my faith may be re-established soon enough.

FishThrower · 18 Nov 2006 at 22:51

tweakinfreak said:
Had 10meg for 6-8 months now and works fine?

Care to comment instead of blasting a service without backing it up with some form of rime or reason

you must be one of the very few

seriously tho, 10mbit is pretty tosh, i dont get above 5mbit on my cable and I live in Letchworth in Hertfordshire, I have to give credit to NTL tho, since I have had my cable (for around 4 years) its only been down twice.

Daniel · 18 Nov 2006 at 23:00

I never had a problem with the 10MB and always have good speed. As for 50MB, it depends on what the price is going to be.

Dan

Biohazard · 18 Nov 2006 at 23:58

I was told by an engineer that in most of the country they have enough backbone bandwidth to supply 100Mb connections as of pretty soon. He seemed to be of the opinion they would work up to it...

Doesn't explain my crud ping and connection drops though... :rolleyes:

hsp70 · 19 Nov 2006 at 01:38

are the ntl and telewest networks separate despite the recent merger? because i've been on 10mb telewest since the beginning and it's been fine from the start. I can get the full 10mb speed after i bought a new router. It turned out my old netgear rp114 only had a 10mb WAN connection to the LAN and with overheads i couldn't achieve full speed until i got my new router with a 100mb WAN to LAN.

james.miller · 19 Nov 2006 at 01:41

my 10mb is rock solid, and im using a home:100 modem

sargatanas · 19 Nov 2006 at 06:10

FishThrower said:
you must be one of the very few

seriously tho, 10mbit is pretty tosh, i dont get above 5mbit on my cable and I live in Letchworth in Hertfordshire, I have to give credit to NTL tho, since I have had my cable (for around 4 years) its only been down twice.

I've always had my 10meg, barring the occasional 10 minute long drop. I'm very happy with my blueyonder

iMacMart · 19 Nov 2006 at 08:00

FishThrower said:
you must be one of the very few

seriously tho, 10mbit is pretty tosh, i dont get above 5mbit on my cable and I live in Letchworth in Hertfordshire, I have to give credit to NTL tho, since I have had my cable (for around 4 years) its only been down twice.

Lol I'm in Stevenage

.....small world........

Dave85 · 19 Nov 2006 at 11:42

indeed they cant even get 10mb stable. high tx rate on my ubr, lots of random claims there making a new one.

was fine for years then every noob wants on it and starts p2p and bittorent
only get full speed from newsbin after 10pm fantastic isnt it.

still not fixed mine sarga, your on a diff ubr u lucky tart

sargatanas · 19 Nov 2006 at 12:21

DAvE18 said:
indeed they cant even get 10mb stable. high tx rate on my ubr, lots of random claims there making a new one.

was fine for years then every noob wants on it and starts p2p and bittorent
only get full speed from newsbin after 10pm fantastic isnt it.

still not fixed mine sarga, your on a diff ubr u lucky tart

Heh,mines been stable pretty much the entire year of 10meg

Dave85 · 19 Nov 2006 at 12:36

am gona come up and chop your cable biatch lol

there getting back to me again supposedly.

garyh · 19 Nov 2006 at 12:39

When I first installed cable, the speeds were pretty poor during peak times. They did however install some new kit at the UBR after about 2 weeks, and now I pretty much get 10mbit constantly.

Roll on 20/50mbit tbh

I'd take cable over current ADSL anyday.

perplex · 19 Nov 2006 at 12:51

I'm more interested in what the upload speed will be. I wouldn't put it past these cable ISPs of having something ridiculous like 50:1, considering the 10:0.384 (upload is not even 4% of download here).