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General => News And Public Announcements => Topic started by: Calibrax on April 26, 2004, 09:44:10 AM

Title: Telewest to increase cable speeds by 50% - free!
Post by: Calibrax on April 26, 2004, 09:44:10 AM
Seems that Telewest are going to a 3Mb service in May - and they are increasing everyone's connection speed by 50% at no extra charge!! And it looks like NTL are increasing their speeds too. Nice!  8)

http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyonder/getContent.jspx?page=bbs_faster (http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyonder/getContent.jspx?page=bbs_faster)

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

Steve :D :D
Title: Telewest to increase cable speeds by 50% - free!
Post by: JohnnyFind on April 26, 2004, 10:19:01 AM
Not bad at all seeing as it's free....

Are they increasing upload speeds?
Title: Telewest to increase cable speeds by 50% - free!
Post by: Calibrax on April 26, 2004, 12:45:06 PM
Well, it's not mentioned... so I guess not.  :(

Still, my 1Mb service has 256k upload, and I really don't use it 99% of the time...
Title: Telewest to increase cable speeds by 50% - free!
Post by: Boris on April 26, 2004, 04:56:35 PM
Nice to see that you peeps are able to get decent speeds aswell on yer lines. I shall send the above links to my ISP at once :)

But you are still way behind :D  
Got a call yesterday from a friend who bragged about his new line. He got from his ISP a 100 Mbit/sec (guaranteed in their own net) fiber service.  8O
The price? Activation: ÃÆ'ââ,¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ,£64, Monthly fee: ÃÆ'ââ,¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ,£64, Allowed traffic/month: 300GB

The fastest DSL available here is 32MB for ÃÆ'ââ,¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ,£32/month. But not in my town, I have to struggle with only 8.  :wink: