NTL to make announcement on Broadband

kin9pin

http://www.examiner.ie/pport/web/Full_Story/did-sgJwXgMbrmqQw.asp

According to this, NTL will make an announcement on their Broadband product within weeks in response to Eircom etc. upgrades. My guess is that they'll follow UK's lead and upgrade to 1MB/2MB/3MB with the downside that they'll start enforcing caps.

Drapper

kin9pin wrote:

http://www.examiner.ie/pport/web/Full_Story/did-sgJwXgMbrmqQw.asp

According to this, NTL will make an announcement on their Broadband product within weeks in response to Eircom etc. upgrades. My guess is that they'll follow UK's lead and upgrade to 1MB/2MB/3MB with the downside that they'll start enforcing caps.

Fantastic News................... fingers crossed !!! IMO they should decide by the 8th of April. 2 weeks...........

Caps............................ Arghhhhhhhhhh............

Zyox

Whoah whoah whoah, stop wearing those conclusion jumping pantaloons right there sonny.

Are you speculating enforced NTL cap?

The UK upgrades went ahead with any change or further enforcement of caps.

LegacyUser

YAY!

That's the ****!

dub45

Has anyone else noticed though that there seems to have been a slowdown recently in extending NTL bb in Dublin? It seems ages since anyone posted here about being offered it where it was not available previously.

Sponge Bob

Thats because they are currently focusing on an area of west Dublin called Galway and an area of greater West Tallaght called Waterford......and then the rest of Dublin and Bray in about that order.

LegacyUser

dub45 wrote:

Has anyone else noticed though that there seems to have been a slowdown recently in extending NTL bb in Dublin? It seems ages since anyone posted here about being offered it where it was not available previously.

I got them in January in Cabinteely! They were not available here before...SOOO impressed they came here.

kin9pin

Zyox wrote:

Whoah whoah whoah, stop wearing those conclusion jumping pantaloons right there sonny.

Are you speculating enforced NTL cap?

The UK upgrades went ahead with any change or further enforcement of caps.

From reading ntlhell forums, it seems that although NTl aren't enforcing caps at the moment they do plan to this year. Now I've heard this before from NTL so here's hoping that they'll just "forget" to enforce them again

Moriarty

All the off-topic stuff has been split off to this thread and moved to nets/comms.

MrVestek

Yeah I had a feeling that'd happen, the thread totally turned into something else. On a side note, who here likes cake?

Seriously tho I'd love my 1.5Mbps connection to be bumped to 3Mbps... it'd be sweeter than Jaffa Cakes... and that's saying something!

Infini

3MB's for 50 quid? Man that'd be sweet! On another note I heard that NTL was doing trials in England for 18MB/s connections. Something to do with HDTV as well.

Out of interest,anyone got a full list of places where ntl broadband is available?

jimmycrackcorm

That will be a bummer if they bump up the speed as it will make moving to smart less attractive for 35 yo yos versus 24 for line plus 50 for NTL.

lee_baby_simms

Zyox wrote:

Whoah whoah whoah

although i too love jaffa cakes i would probably choke on one if i got charged from NTL for exceeding a cap.

Diabolus

I would like to add that i got the 1.5 MB NTL.
Just over a month ago and its new to the "Knocklyon" area.

Infini

I've had it since November. Whaddya think of it?

dub45

Infini wrote:

3MB's for 50 quid? Man that'd be sweet! On another note I heard that NTL was doing trials in England for 18MB/s connections. Something to do with HDTV as well.

Info here.

gandalf

I wish to god they would hurry up and upgrade the rest of Ballinteer, its pathetic at this stage that they have not upgraded the rest of this area. If they upgraded I would get their bloody digital TV package as well.

Was there not some sort of commitment to a roll out schedule with the granting of all the licenses that these guys got and if so should they not be penalised for non-compliance.

Drapper

gandalf wrote:

I wish to god they would hurry up and upgrade the rest of Ballinteer, its pathetic at this stage that they have not upgraded the rest of this area. If they upgraded I would get their bloody digital TV package as well.

Was there not some sort of commitment to a roll out schedule with the granting of all the licenses that these guys got and if so should they not be penalised for non-compliance.

To be fair they are cleaning up still after Cablelink !! the network is and was a mess !! Not thier fault

gandalf

To be fair, how many years is it since they took Cablelink over and there has been very little upgrading done fullstop.

They are great at firing up press releases etc but as regards action there is very little. Pretty pathetic.

dub45

gandalf wrote:

I wish to god they would hurry up and upgrade the rest of Ballinteer, its pathetic at this stage that they have not upgraded the rest of this area. If they upgraded I would get their bloody digital TV package as well.

Was there not some sort of commitment to a roll out schedule with the granting of all the licenses that these guys got and if so should they not be penalised for non-compliance.

I think that commitment was waived when NTL got themselves into financial difficultes. At the time they would have had no money to pay the penalties anyways!

Lenny

For some reason my dwnloads off a lot of servers have been just over 400-420kb on servers,
I think I have just gotten myself a 4mb off them a few months back by accident

oceanclub

kin9pin wrote:

From reading ntlhell forums,

Where are these forums?

P.

kin9pin

oceanclub wrote:

Where are these forums?

P.

http://forums.ntlhell.co.uk/

kin9pin

Lenny wrote:

For some reason my dwnloads off a lot of servers have been just over 400-420kb on servers,
I think I have just gotten myself a 4mb off them a few months back by accident

What servers are these and how big are the downloads?

Infini

Lenny wrote:

For some reason my dwnloads off a lot of servers have been just over 400-420kb on servers,
I think I have just gotten myself a 4mb off them a few months back by accident

You lucky bastard!! :eek: BTW 400kb x 8 is 3.2MB When did you get the upgrade?!?!?

Lenny

Been off blueyonder.co.uk, updates off ea, bit torrent
downloads have been over the 200-300mb mark

CyberGhost

wow!

mad m

Lenny wrote:

Been off blueyonder.co.uk, updates off ea, bit torrent
downloads have been over the 200-300mb mark

Not a chance id believe you after the other stories,any screen shots of your high speed downloads?

MrVestek

mad m wrote:

Not a chance id believe you after the other stories,any screen shots of your high speed downloads?

Screenshots can be faked :P

Capt'n Midnight

Achilles wrote:

Screenshots can be faked :P

is nothing sacred :eek:

MrVestek

Unfortunatly not... actually here's my latest NTL download speed :P
Took me a while to get a screenshot of the download as it only appears for like 2 seconds!

LegacyUser

haha bull****!

MrVestek

No that's my real download speed... HONEST!!

mad m

Achilles wrote:

Screenshots can be faked :P

I know i just wondered what kind of a photoshop he would of come up with..

JohnMorrissey

That's just the burst of speed you all get for 2-3 secs when dl starts. Then it all goes downhill to my damn 50kb/s

kin9pin

JohnMorrissey wrote:

That's just the burst of speed you all get for 2-3 secs when dl starts. Then it all goes downhill to my damn 50kb/s

50kB/s? Haven't seen one of them for a while

MrVestek

*rubs his 1.5Mbps connection...*

CyberGhost

Achilles wrote:

*rubs his 1.5Mbps connection...*

do a test here please

http://www.irishisptest.com/bandtest/initialmeter.php

MrVestek

Ok...
Doubt me do you? Check the attatchment.

CyberGhost

Achilles wrote:

Ok...
Doubt me do you? Check the attatchment.

no I don't doubt you I just think you didn't tell the truth


nice speed!

you could just paste the link you know(after the test finishes) like this
http://www.irishisptest.com/bandtest/results.php?kbps=427.6&downloadtime=11.484&KB=599.375&recorded=1

causal

Post the URL after you run the test.
[edit] Oops, cyberghost just said that already[/edit]


causal

Diabolus

2 things.

The guy has 1.5 mb ntl...
Second Thats mine
http://www.irishisptest.com/bandtest/results.php?kbps=1471&downloadtime=10.625&KB=1907.875&recorded=1

And if you wished...
http://www.irishisptest.com/bandtest/results.php?kbps=10471&downloadtime=10.625&KB=2907.875&recorded=1

Hell
http://www.irishisptest.com/bandtest/results.php?kbps=1000471&downloadtime=10.625&KB=2907.875&recorded=1

The Guy has 1.5

mad m

Diabolus wrote:

2 things.

The guy has 1.5 mb ntl...
Second Thats mine
http://www.irishisptest.com/bandtest/results.php?kbps=1471&downloadtime=10.625&KB=1907.875&recorded=1

And if you wished...
http://www.irishisptest.com/bandtest/results.php?kbps=10471&downloadtime=10.625&KB=2907.875&recorded=1

Hell
http://www.irishisptest.com/bandtest/results.php?kbps=1000471&downloadtime=10.625&KB=2907.875&recorded=1

The Guy has 1.5

Cough,splutter,meh!

I cant look at my 750k connection anymore,our life together is ruined i tell you ruined.

causal

Umm Diabolus, it was a genuine suggestion on my part - to post a link to the url - rather than save a screen capture, upload file etc.

In any event, the question is, will ntl upgrade that 1.5 to 3.0; and will they double all the upload rates too; or will they go small style like the UK: 1Mb/100kb; 2Mb/200kb; 3Mb/300kb;

causal

Diabolus

causal wrote:

In any event, the question is, will ntl upgrade that 1.5 to 3.0; and will they double all the upload rates too; or will they go small style like the UK: 1Mb/100kb; 2Mb/200kb; 3Mb/300kb;

causal

Lets hope they do...

SachaJ

Ok, back to the main topic.

A fella from NTL rang me last night trying to seel me the broadband. Fed me all the usual sales crap, and I retorted with some questions:

******************

Me: I've heard that NTL will be announcing some new broadband packages in the next few weeks. What can you tell me about them?

NTL: Yes, I've not heard much, but we will be at least matching the Eircom products.

Me: So you will be matching Eircoms/Esats 4meg product.

NTL: Yes, we will be matching Eircoms/Esats products.

Me: What about your upload speeds. Will they be increasing?

NTL: We will be at least matching Eircoms/Esats products for uploads speeds.

Me: I've heard that NTL do not allow customers to run web servers from the braodband packages.

NTL: Hang on I'll ask my supervisor......... Ok, yes you can run web servers from the broadband. Our customers can use the broadband for whatever they wish.

******************

The impression I got was that NTL currently have the best/cheapest broadband package available. They intend to also have the best/cheapest package available in a few weeks time. I'm not altogether sure how much yer man knew, ie. speeds up/down, but he was fairly helpful and did his best to answer my questions.

kin9pin

mmmmm so they're going to AT LEAST match 4MB. That's faster than the UK increase.
Now, if I can just get over my reservations about sales reps I can allow myself to get excited
thx for the info Sacha, things are looking up!

SachaJ

kin9pin wrote:

mmmmm so they're going to AT LEAST match 4MB. That's faster than the UK increase.
Now, if I can just get over my reservations about sales reps I can allow myself to get excited
thx for the info Sacha, things are looking up!

Yeah, take what he said about the 4meg with a pinch of salt. He was a sales rep and they tend to butter things up a bit.....

Nietzschean

sounds alot like he knew near on 0 about it at all.....
its prohibited in NTL's T&C's to run servers(http or otherwise) , iirc...doubt its changed

SachaJ

Darth Bobo wrote:

sounds alot like he knew near on 0 about it at all.....
its prohibited in NTL's T&C's to run servers(http or otherwise) , iirc...doubt its changed

Said that to him, and he checked with his supervisor and they said its ok. Maybe a change in the rules or summat.