ntl/upc giving gamers free upgrades

Dues Bellator

if i get in trouble here for posting in wrong place im sorry i just think its game related, anyhoo i got a phone call from ntl this morning , yes you heard right they rang me asking would i like a free upgrade, hell yes silly question, anyway the upgrades are from 1mb to 3 mb 6mb to 10mb and 12mb to a wopping 20mb im gone from 6 to 10, they said it could take 24 hrs to come tru, i ran a check on http://www.speedtest.net and i was upgraded instantly.pretty amazing for ntl/upc it looks like there finally getting there act togeter or else there having a look at some of the posts on boards.ie lol.
hope its of some help

311

My area is not upgraded yet ,I'm waiting for the lads on the ladders to run the new cable.

There is no caps on the 12 and 20 lines. I'd say there would be drops though around peak tv times if a lot had fast broadband aswell,especially with big sporting events etc.

Dues Bellator

theres a 20 gig cap on the the lowest speed 3mb i think , thats amazing 20mb is huge, from what i get from mates that i play online is ntl is the best by a long way, its just so infuriating when you have to ring them over anything ,if they sort this out there great.

noodler

How do you find you MB speed on speedtest? Which figure?

Dues Bellator

noodler wrote: »

How do you find you MB speed on speedtest? Which figure?

ok no probs what you do is when you get the results of your test, it takes a bit, at the top of the page it gives you a option of date , gmt, and speed just change from kmbs to mb.any probs buzz me im on for a few mins.

noodler

Eh I megabits or Megabytes

My download speed on megabytes is 1.71.........

I thought ours (Esat was upgraded recently)

Or am I reading it wrong?

Dues Bellator

1.71 transfers as 1.7 mb .ie you have a 2 mb connection am i correct noodler.

noodler

I didn't think so, they doubled it recently I thought. Ah well, maybe there were doing it by region, Ill have to get out the bill and check it out.

Cheers for the site anyway, thats useful.

Mimikyu

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Dues Bellator

noodler wrote: »

I didn't think so, they doubled it recently I thought. Ah well, maybe there were doing it by region, Ill have to get out the bill and check it out.

Cheers for the site anyway, thats useful.

no worrys mate, you could always give them a dingle and tell them to give you a line test,if like me your with ntl this is a major operation, thats why i use that site , which i might add was givin to me by an ntl engineer

Dues Bellator

Solitaryman666 wrote: »

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all areas that are currently be served ie if your 12 you get a wopping 20mb upgrade

noodler

No Im with BT. They did send a letter around a month or two ago about automatic upgrades though.

Mimikyu

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L31mr0d

check the broadband forum, this has been out for weeks. I'm on the 20Mb/s connection myself. What you'll find now though is that the actual Playstation Servers are slow, I don't think i've reached even close to 20Mb/s when I'm downloading a game from the PSN Store.

Dues Bellator

L31mr0d wrote: »

check the broadband forum, this has been out for weeks. I'm on the 20Mb/s connection myself. What you'll find now though is that the actual Playstation Servers are slow, I don't think i've reached even close to 20Mb/s when I'm downloading a game from the PSN Store.

i know L31mr0d its just a hell of a lot of gamers dont be browsing the broadband forum like the couple of posters above thats why i posted here mate, ye on for a bit of gaming tonight

noodler

Yeah well I appreciate it being posted here!

Ah well, should be on 8MB by now if they said they would start the process by June.

Not 2mb!

Have to look into it.

Dues Bellator

Solitaryman666 wrote: »

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I understand that by upgrading to the new higher speed I am entering into a new 12 month contract. Increases from 1Mb to 3Mb, 3Mb to 10Mb and 6Mb to 20Mb will not incur any extra costs. Any other changes will result in a change in my billing amount.

Yours sincerely,

Chorus ntl
this is the confirmation email they sent me nothing to look into , just give them a ring and get your mega 20 mg bb speed