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chris Forum Fanatic
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Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 3:32 pm Post subject: NTL and telewest upgrade broadband speeds for free |
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NTL is to boost the speed of its broadband service at no extra cost - mimicking a similar announcement made by Telewest earlier today.
NTL's entry-level 150K service is upgrading to 300k although the price will remain £17.99 a month. The 600K service is to increase to 750K (£24.99) while its 1MB service ramps up to 1.5MB (£37.99).
NTL's gear-shift will take place in the summer, a little later than Telewest, which upgrades in May.
A spokesman for NTL said the announcement to double the speed of broadband services - on the same day that Telewest announced the same plan - was "pure coincidence".
However, The Register understands that NTL knew in advance of Telewest's plans and decided to bring forward its announcement. The UK's two cablecos work fairly closely together, in preparation for the day that they eventually merge. Telewest has a couple of billion dollars in debt refinancing to get out of the way, first, though, before any meaningful talks can get underway.
Chad Raube, director of Internet services at Telewest Broadband, said: "These are independent initiatives and we were unaware that NTL had plans to announce similar broadband changes today. This is good news for cable customers and it goes to show the capability of our networks
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The UK cableco is revamping its range of blueyonder Internet products to offer faster speeds for the same price as existing services. The 50 per cent speed upgrade means that the standard blueyonder broadband service will increase in speed from 512Kb to 750Kb, but still cost from only £25 per month.
Telewest's 1Mb is boosted to 1.5Mb while the 2Mb service gets wound up to a 3Mb service. Telewest's recently launched entry-level 256k service is not included in the speed shift.
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NTL's 1meg service is close to £40 a month now though, 1meg adsl from the likes of plus.net is cheaper and has other benefits like a static IP, will the increased speed stop people from moving?
Personally im going to step down to the new 750k service
Source - The register
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xtreme Just Arrived
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Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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Chris
do you know if the Upload speeds will be increasing at all ?
& will NTL's speed change take affect on 1st June ?
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Matt S Just Arrived
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Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 2:06 am Post subject: |
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Not sure how NTL could call 150k broadband in the first place .
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siarad Just Arrived
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Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 10:13 am Post subject: |
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They were challenged but won the right.
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chris Forum Fanatic
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chris Forum Fanatic
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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xtreme wrote: |
Chris
do you know if the Upload speeds will be increasing at all ?
& will NTL's speed change take affect on 1st June ? |
Quick update looks like NTL are doing this in the 'late summer', your guess is as good as mine as to when that is Looks like the telewest upgrade has happened already.
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Networkguy Trusted SF Member
Joined: 29 Apr 2002 Posts: 16777215 Location: UK
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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 12:04 am Post subject: |
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IT'S ARRIVED
I saw something posted on another board so a quick reboot of my NTL cable modem and sure enough. 1.5-Mbits for the price of 1.
The change does not appear to happen until your CM is rebooted.
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chris Forum Fanatic
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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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IT'S ARRIVED
I saw something posted on another board so a quick reboot of my NTL cable modem and sure enough. 1.5-Mbits for the price of 1.
The change does not appear to happen until your CM is rebooted. |
Good news, forgot about this one, reboot of the set top box in my case, 512->750k. Its a shame the upstream on this is still 128k, I didnt move away from NTL purely as its too much hassle to move away the TV/phone/internet.
Im now tempted by other DSL providers , better upstream, static ips and generally cheaper than NTL. Lets see how it goes anyway, can't complain about extra bandwidth
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Networkguy Trusted SF Member
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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But it gets better because last night I got upgraded to
10mbit/s
At the same time they have lowered my bill by a whole £3 per month.
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browolf Trusted SF Member
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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arrgh
cant get cable where I live. dunno why it's a pretty affluent area this town so it's not like ppl couldnt afford it.
why is it that council estates always seem to have cable?
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