Telewest Upgrade to 20Mb !!!

Vicar said:
The reason they have always used for not boosting upload is pretty simple, it costs more for upload bandwith, and would boost peer to peer sharing 10 fold if they boosted it too much....
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Possibly, although there is more to upload than p2p.. Running your own website with photos, etc, for family members is one. I wish I had my brothers speed, 20mb down 10mb up, but that is in Norway, who are miles ahead of UK when its comes to Broadband.
 
Scope said:
Possibly, although there is more to upload than p2p.. Running your own website with photos, etc, for family members is one. I wish I had my brothers speed, 20mb down 10mb up, but that is in Norway, who are miles ahead of UK when its comes to Broadband.
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You see where I am comming from, either BY and countless ISP providers are comming from though? Upload costs.....?
 
Yep it's mostly down to cost but also the cable network isn't (well, wasn't but might be okay now) great for upstream data.

BY don't want thousands of people hosting websites off their home computers - they would rather have that on a seperate network, i.e the webspace they give you.
 
even if by did increase the upload, you still wouldnt be able to host a webserver (unless you get some sort of special BY package), as they dont allow you to host websites. my router even shows a BY ip, which when i checked is showed as scanner.blueyonder or something, trying to connect to port 80 to see if im trying to run a website when its not allowed.
 
for anyone who gives a rats theres 1700 trialists for 20 meg with ntl and a smidge over 2000 for telewest :)
 
sormicoft said:
for anyone who gives a rats theres 1700 trialists for 20 meg with ntl and a smidge over 2000 for telewest :)
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Aye I have been keeping an eye on this over at ntlhell forum!!

Maybe they will upgrade more towards the back end of 2006?
 
Dist said:
even if by did increase the upload, you still wouldnt be able to host a webserver (unless you get some sort of special BY package), as they dont allow you to host websites. my router even shows a BY ip, which when i checked is showed as scanner.blueyonder or something, trying to connect to port 80 to see if im trying to run a website when its not allowed.
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I'm running my website/mail server from my NTL cable connection without any problems. I use no-ip to point my domain name at my dynamic ip and off it goes :) There are no restricted/blocked ports.
 
I'm in Blackpool - me and my mate (also in Blackpool) are both on the 20mbit trial. Very nice speeds. Nice to see upload speed increased. Pulling about 1.8mb/sec from one site i download from a lot - not really tried other sites.
 
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