I have been told that NTL are going to up the ante and customers on 3Mb connection will be on 8 Mb? I have not noticed any change in speed yet.

My question is (and please dont think I'm being nosey) But what connection and speed do you have? Who is it with? and How much does it cost?

 

MINE:

 

3Mb Cable, NTL, £34.00 P/m

2MB BT £30...and never had any issues...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4692544.stm

 

cheeky fookers..

Alternatively can someone in the know direct me to a decent speed test to test my connection speed please. My concern is that I have noticed no difference but am being charged? I should be on 10Mb not 3Mb.

 

Thanks

BT 1MB (2mb not available in my village ??) £27

http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp

Alternatively can someone in the know direct me to a decent speed test to test my connection speed please. My concern is that I have noticed no difference but am being charged? I should be on 10Mb not 3Mb.

 

Thanks

 

you'll probably find that flexing up speeds is line-dependent... rather than a free-for-all

Wanadoo 2mb 14.99 no problems to report.

you'll probably find that flexing up speeds is line-dependent... rather than a free-for-all

 

Thanks Angus. Thanks Rich. I am not very clever when it comes to all things internet but any test I have done says its about 3.5 Mb (best) download speed. is this right for a 10 Mb connection. It dont sound right?

wanadoo just over 2mb (8mb not on my exchange yet) and £10 p/m on offer with orange :dance:

first of all vinny NTL customers are all gonna end up at 10Mb (comes from one of their regional managers mouth) and EVERYBODYS gonna go up to that in time in order of current speeds so 3Mb will go first the 2 then 1 and so on. secondly the speed tests on the net are incorrect once again straight from the horses mouth. HTH

rebel

first of all vinny NTL customers are all gonna end up at 10Mb (comes from one of their regional managers mouth) and EVERYBODYS gonna go up to that in time in order of current speeds so 3Mb will go first the 2 then 1 and so on. secondly the speed tests on the net are incorrect once again straight from the horses mouth. HTH

rebel

 

Cheers Reb'. Do you work for them? I am just a bit dubious wether or not I'm getting what I am paying for? Otherwise and apart from the occasional loss of connection I am very pleased with NTL. :)

 

Vince

first of all vinny NTL customers are all gonna end up at 10Mb (comes from one of their regional managers mouth) and EVERYBODYS gonna go up to that in time in order of current speeds so 3Mb will go first the 2 then 1 and so on. secondly the speed tests on the net are incorrect once again straight from the horses mouth. HTH

rebel

 

 

It is also a maximum speed. That is not to say you will get 8MB all the time but at quiet times when contention ratio is lowest, you may get near 8MB...

until they change all the shit copper analogue lines to fiber optic you are never going to get the advertised speed, you have to remember that with the conversion from analogue to digital several times along the chain and the fact you have data falloff over the standard phone lines per meter you wont get the true speed. to achieve this you need a 0.1% datafall off this is only acheivable with optical links. if you read the very small print in all isp providers contracts and terms of service they actually admit that they cannot guarantee the full bandwidth at all for the service you are using, subject to the communications act, however they are allowed to advertise it as such as the facilities for supplying said bandwidth are there, when you connect it says " connected at 2.2mb/sec" however thats just the modem doing a wish test on the line a pre cnx ping that tells the router your card in the exchange is active and ready, the cnx from the exchange to main servers and terminal nodes is different it goes crap from there, and heavy use will slow it down no matter what cnx you have.

 

multiplex optical networked mainframes for isps are being implemented already, in london they are already trying our version of the states t1-t3 lines its called sdsl, and its shit, bt are cutting corners as usual, the best thing to do is make the whole uk cnx network optical and have done.

When thats done will it run this better as I'm starting to get

a bit impatient with it.

 

 

:rofl:

 

Sorry

Pmsl... :smash: :smash:

Cheers Reb'. Do you work for them? I am just a bit dubious wether or not I'm getting what I am paying for? Otherwise and apart from the occasional loss of connection I am very pleased with NTL. :)

 

Vince

 

vinni i dont work fo NTL but know a lot of them (dodgy ba5tadrs the lot of themLOL) nice guys though. BTW have you applied to them for the 3for 30 scheme im on the 3Mb broad band and the other day they came to me and offered it to me cos i got the broad band and telephone any hoo i got the tv as well now and my broadband is still 3mb and i pay less as well. ps if you want a chipped ntl box let me know :D

vinni i dont work fo NTL but know a lot of them (dodgy ba5tadrs the lot of themLOL) nice guys though. BTW have you applied to them for the 3for 30 scheme im on the 3Mb broad band and the other day they came to me and offered it to me cos i got the broad band and telephone any hoo i got the tv as well now and my broadband is still 3mb and i pay less as well. ps if you want a chipped ntl box let me know :D

 

Thanks for the offer Reb'. ;) I have sky plus and thats plenty for the ol lady mate. I havent heard about the 3 for 30 scheme. I still get my phone line for the home phone and another one for the fax. which is a waste of space as I hardly use it. EMail is much better???? I only get the big 5 from NTL on the TV.

Cheers bud. Vince

im on ntl

the triple package tv, phone, broadband 1mb line for £30 per month

Plusnet 14.99 p/m 2mb. Soon to be upgraded to 8mb for no extra cost apparantly

1mb plus phone ntl at 19.95 month, plus for £2 per month i get usa calls for 5p min which is the big bonus for me

Pipex, 2.2Mb at £18 per month. Upgraded free from 512k to 1Mb, then upped to 2.2Mb as compensation for the crap customer service they gave me when I had a problem with their free modem.

Telewest blueyonder 4mb unlimited downloads £18.99 per month. Also got all sky channels apart from movies plus phone line with free weekend and evening calls and the whole lot only costs £64 a month(including broadband)

Bulldog 8MB @ £27.50pm. I think it's available for £21.50 now though and I'll transfer over to that sort of contract once the ADSL2+ situation sorts itself out.