Telewest and NTL broadband users - Good News

Telewest and NTL broadband users - Good News

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marlboro

Original Poster:

637 posts

276 months

Monday 26th April 2004
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Increased bandwidth free of charge.

NTL Upgrades:
150K to 300K
600K to 750K
1M to 1.5M


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3646825.stm

>>> Edited by marlboro on Monday 26th April 19:16

meeja

8,290 posts

253 months

Monday 26th April 2004
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Fine.

As long as they don't decide to "adjust their pricing" in three of four months time.....

slinksport

15,704 posts

254 months

Monday 26th April 2004
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or go crazy with bandwidth capping..

"You can have a 1.5Mb connection, but are only allowed to download 1Gb a month.."

marlboro

Original Poster:

637 posts

276 months

Monday 26th April 2004
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meeja said:
Fine.

As long as they don't decide to "adjust their pricing" in three of four months time.....



slinksport said:
or go crazy with bandwidth capping..

"You can have a 1.5Mb connection, but are only allowed to download 1Gb a month.."



Why the Gloom....I doubt if they would do either unless they want to lose customers.

simpo two

86,640 posts

270 months

Monday 26th April 2004
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marlboro said:
Why the Gloom....I doubt if they would do either unless they want to lose customers.

Think BT!

pdV6

16,442 posts

266 months

Tuesday 27th April 2004
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Woo Hoo! That'll be 750kbps for me then...

Actually, I'm not sure that I will notice the difference - I have a hard enough time seeing much real difference between my 512kbps at home and the 2048kbps in the office...

puggit

48,755 posts

253 months

Tuesday 27th April 2004
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Wooohooo

We gambled on getting NTL 150K, thinking it would be bumped up soon. We'll notice the difference

jgmadkit

548 posts

254 months

Tuesday 27th April 2004
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Nice, but would prefer a 50% drop in price for the same speed

John

mr_yogi

3,288 posts

260 months

Tuesday 27th April 2004
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Yeah this is good news, i'll be up to 3Mbit soon Only thing i wish they'd done was increase the upload speed. Ah well, musent Grumble

>> Edited by mr_yogi on Tuesday 27th April 13:33

meeja

8,290 posts

253 months

Tuesday 27th April 2004
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marlboro said:

meeja said:
Fine.

As long as they don't decide to "adjust their pricing" in three of four months time.....





slinksport said:
or go crazy with bandwidth capping..

"You can have a 1.5Mb connection, but are only allowed to download 1Gb a month.."




Why the Gloom....I doubt if they would do either unless they want to lose customers.


All they have to do now is sort out their email servers....

Up and down like a whore's drawers!

slinksport

15,704 posts

254 months

Tuesday 27th April 2004
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jgmadkit said:
Nice, but would prefer a 50% drop in price for the same speed

John


Already got that with my 2mb pipe..

35 Squids sir..



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