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"Good News for NTL Broadband users"

ntl is boosting its three broadband services to higher speeds, at no extra cost to customers. This will provide a significant competitive advantage, offering the highest speeds in the high volume entry-level and mid-tier sectors, while at the high end, ntl will offer 50% more speed than the main providers of ADSL.

New speeds

At entry level, the 150Kbps service increases to 300Kbps (£17.99), the mid tier service increases from 600Kbps to 750Kbps (£24.99), while at the high end the 1Mb service increases to 1.5Mb (£37.99)

This also goes for Telewest and Blueyonder

*clutches at straws*

Personal website?

I suppose 1 GB a day isn't too bad, but I could break that without downloading stuff. The places that limit you to 1 GB a month however are morons.

It's pointless anyway for me, I can't get cable in and live around 200 yards from BT exchange so get decent ADSL. Thing is, using a router, I don't get the flashing computer icon in the system tray when connected, so I couldn't monitor my usage.

Any ideas how I could do that?

Notorious Biggles wrote:
> phi11ip wrote:
> They will have to upgrade the cap now, well, it's not exactly a cap
> as
> you can go through it.
>
> They'll problably have it tiered for the accounts, still 1GB a day
> is
> a hell of a lot to get through, you must be doing something illegal
> to do it EVERY day.
>
> It depends on what you do though. I have a router now, so I can't
> check so easily, but I've checked in the past and discovered that
> just a few hours of surfing and some games, but no downloading, took
> up nearly 400 Mbs in one day. Now if you are a web designer, or have
> a small office or.. a whole bunch of different things that involve a
> lot of web work, especially for long periods and/or more than one
Ø person, that could be broken.
Ø
If you’re a web designer and you’re using your connection for your work then you’re breaking their T&C anyway. It’s a residential line, not a business line.

And the deal with the ‘cap’ is that you can break the 1GB a day limit twice in any 14 days period and nothing will happen, this is to allow you to download a big program every now and then. If you however consistently break the limit you will have your connection speed limited.

When I saw "Good news for NTL broadband customers", I immediately envisioned a scene of a big building with an "NTL HQ" sign on it, burning down. But yeah, faster BB for nothing is good.

well if u download steam and all its mods thats 3 days bandwidth gone, I would rather ntl have a 30 gig per month quota, that way if you do need to download something huge like steam or linux distros you don't get screwed and yes I beleieve you are right in the fact 1mbit is not capped to 1 gig per day

I download more then 1gb i think sometimes

1GB a day sounds okay, but 1Gb, no.

Well i dont thinks its entily true my ntl broadband 24:99 service from next month is going to be 29:99 so maybe that why speed going up

1gb a day would be very annoying, i made sure there was no cap on my provider as we have multiple users on one connection and could much 1gb in a few hours doing entirely legal stuff.

phi11ip wrote:
> They will have to upgrade the cap now, well, it's not exactly a cap as
> you can go through it.
>
> They'll problably have it tiered for the accounts, still 1GB a day is
> a hell of a lot to get through, you must be doing something illegal
> to do it EVERY day.

It depends on what you do though. I have a router now, so I can't check so easily, but I've checked in the past and discovered that just a few hours of surfing and some games, but no downloading, took up nearly 400 Mbs in one day. Now if you are a web designer, or have a small office or.. a whole bunch of different things that involve a lot of web work, especially for long periods and/or more than one person, that could be broken.

750Kbps is at a nice price!