Nice one NTL.

botheredbothered Manchester UK
edited February 2005 in Science & Tech
I got a letter from my ISP, NTL, yesterday. In a month or two they are going to pop round with a new set top box, which houses the cable modem. They are upgrading their service and turning the speed up. Mine will go from 1M to 1.5M. There is no charge for this nor have I asked for it. The 1m service is ok most of the time but 1.5M will be nice for my ping.
Have you been offered this Shorty?
:thumbsup: NTL.

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  • red777red777
    edited June 2004
    :ukflag: yea my m8 got the letter yesterday (saturday) not got mine yet :bawling: but he is restricted to the amount he van download where i can get all i want :thumbsup:
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    Not yet Mr B :(

    I called my local franchise and they dont have a date yet.
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK Member
    edited June 2004
    Me neither :( Only letter I got was the one about putting the price up to £37.99/pm !
  • qparadoxqparadox Vancouver, BC
    edited June 2004
    OUCH Jim!, I'm getting 512 kbit up / 1.5 Mbit down for $20 cdn / month. I think that translates to 9 pounds (dunno the symbol :P). I can't imagine paying that much for basic broadband. When I first got cable (7 years ago now!) I paid only $60 cdn / month .. and I thought that was ub3r expensive ... although it was cheaper than a second phone line + unlimited dialup :P.
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK Member
    edited June 2004
    Yep i think its expensive too, but there are cheaper services available but not at that speed/available in my area/on cable. Broadband is only just taking off in this country so I expect prices to come down in the near future and at least with NTL there is no capping (well there is a 1gb/day limit but they never enforce it) where as other providers limit you to a gb/month! I'm generally downloading nearly a gb/day so a proper capped service is no good for me. To help with the costs I share my connection with my neighbour so in reality it actually only cost around £ 18 pm. :)
  • red777red777
    edited June 2004
    :ukflag: yea i can get a full dvd-r a day even got lotr3 2 discs in the same day
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK Member
    edited August 2004
    Whoo Hoo I went to download XP SP2 today & noticed that I was getting a download rate of 180-190 kb/s. That means I've finally been upgraded to 1.5mb download from NTL . At last ....:)

    How about you bothered & Shorty, got your upgrade yet?
  • ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    qpara, who's your provider out there @$20? Shaw charges double that, so does Telus for ADSL :(
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited August 2004
    Got mine on Sunday but I haven't played CoD or anything to really test it yet, too busy :banghead: :mean: plus it wouldn't work, it seems as though NTL damaged my cable when they installed the new box. After I had the floors up and hid all the cables, chased them into walls and decorated last year, I now have a new cable strewn across the living room floor like a 10m curly very thin gray snake :banghead: :mean: :banghead:
    jimborae, didn't you have to have a new set top box installed?
    I did run a couple of speed test on mine, it said it was just below 1.5m. I haven't downloaded anything yet so I haven't really seen any differance.
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    No upgrade yet :(
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK Member
    edited August 2004
    bothered wrote:
    jimborae, didn't you have to have a new set top box installed?
    I did run a couple of speed test on mine, it said it was just below 1.5m. I haven't downloaded anything yet so I haven't really seen any differance.


    Hi bothered,

    No I didn't, I dont have an stb as I only have internet, no TV so only have a cable modem. Apparently these things can handle upto 8mb/s both ways.

    Apparently all areas are supposed to be upgraded by the end of August, so not long to go now Dan. :)
  • CyrixInsteadCyrixInstead Stoke-on-Trent, England Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    That will explain it then! I have the 600k line and last night I was downloading XP SP2 at 81Kb/s instead of 70Kb/s. Wondered why it was so much higher than before.

    It cheeses me off that they can have it so much higher at no extra cost. I reckon they'll just keep upping it as other companies offer better speeds.

    //edit actually, I just did a bandwidth download test and its 700 Kilobits/sec up from 600. I'm happy :)

    ~Cyrix
  • red777red777
    edited August 2004
    yea mines upped to 1.5 :ukflag: getting stuff at a right pace on torent got my box ages ago was having probs with tv and internet so after some nasty calls they changed it 4 me :thumbsup:
  • NecropolisNecropolis Hawarden, Wales Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    I am amazed that NTL is taking so long to do it. Telewest has offered a 2mb service for well over 1 year and a half and a 3mb for over 6 months (guess which one I have ;) )
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited August 2004
    There's no other option here, it's NTL or.....ntl
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK Member
    edited February 2005
    Just to let the Ntl users here know that we're getting further speed upgrades next month apparrently. Anybody with a 1.5mb connection will get upgraded to 3mb for no extra charge, looks like they're dropping the previously advised £25 admin fee for existing customers.

    Linky to unofficial posting & details
  • NecropolisNecropolis Hawarden, Wales Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    Cool, normally when NTL does something like this, Telewest ups theirs for free too. Time for them to upgrade me up past the 4mb its on now :thumbsup:
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited February 2005
    Yeah, they were supposed to be doing that in January. Not yet though.
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