Just got off the phone to them has anyone heard anything else about the 50 meg service that apparently has been tested and should be going ahead this year. Also manged to get the 10 meg for half price for 3 months, thats the best they would do.
Telewest tryling 50 meg?
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100 meg a second 
I assume you mean kilobytes per second in which case it's 100,000/8 = 12,500kBps. Then subtract 5% for overheads, that gives 11,875kBps.
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I assume you mean kilobytes per second in which case it's 100,000/8 = 12,500kBps. Then subtract 5% for overheads, that gives 11,875kBps.
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Im well chuffed getting 1500kBps 
The only mention of faster speeds i've seen came in an interview where Chad Rube (iirc) was quoted as saying speeds up to 100mbit by the end of the year were possible. This was in an internal company magazine circulated summer last year and widely quoted from.
No live trial of 100mbit for home users is happening on TW atm, TW only cover a tiny, minute section of Manchester and it's not had 100mbit done for anything except business afaik. NTL on the other hand may have done as they cover the majority of Manchester, they did selective customer 20mbit trial's not that long ago and I know this is penned in for launch this year but staff are often only given specific dates just before hand so it's a case of wait and see as to the exact dates. 20mbit is coming though and it's not that far off...
No live trial of 100mbit for home users is happening on TW atm, TW only cover a tiny, minute section of Manchester and it's not had 100mbit done for anything except business afaik. NTL on the other hand may have done as they cover the majority of Manchester, they did selective customer 20mbit trial's not that long ago and I know this is penned in for launch this year but staff are often only given specific dates just before hand so it's a case of wait and see as to the exact dates. 20mbit is coming though and it's not that far off...
twas a closed group trial on ntl for the 100 meg, more a showcase than anything else.(spot the ex ntl employee)
afaik 20 meg is due imminently (more than likely being held back until the corporate rebranding to the virgin name) As it stands the technology is in place for 100 meg internet. but they will drip feed it in as will require A LOT of infrastructure changes and a large wodge spending(which the dont really have) anyway they only need to offer 25 meg to be the fasted internet provider available
afaik 20 meg is due imminently (more than likely being held back until the corporate rebranding to the virgin name) As it stands the technology is in place for 100 meg internet. but they will drip feed it in as will require A LOT of infrastructure changes and a large wodge spending(which the dont really have) anyway they only need to offer 25 meg to be the fasted internet provider available
bear in mind a large chunk of that network is still supporting ye olde analouge cable system. being turned off which should free up a fair chunk
although you may think its high capacity its not all that great. have a look at the far east with their gigabit internet bass's
although you may think its high capacity its not all that great. have a look at the far east with their gigabit internet bass's
sormicoft said:bear in mind a large chunk of that network is still supporting ye olde analouge cable system. being turned off which should free up a fair chunk
Their fibre backbone shouldn't have anything do with analogue TV content, surely?
What's a "bass's"? Bases? Basses?
Their capacity to the end user may not be comparible to Sweden or Hong Kong, but they own 5000 miles of modern, high capacity fibre going all over the country.
Edit: Apologies for double post.