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Jenni
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 Posted: Sat, 11th Nov 2006 23:16 Post subject: NTL/Telewest faster connection shocker! |
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I've been informed that Telewest are rolling out their new 20Mb line soon. With phase two of their system being a 50mb line. The biggest shocker is that the 100mb line is in the testing phase as we speak. Anyone in the Birmingham area or Kent? That's where it's being tested at the moment.
So if they follow the same plan as the last time (before NTL took them over) they should start upgrading peoples lines for free. So expect an upgrade to 10mb if you have a 4mb line, for free. Anything lower should be upgraded to 4mb too.
Good news. 10Mb is so slow these days.
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| Posted: Sat, 11th Nov 2006 23:24 Post subject: |
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8mbit or maybe 4mb is enough for regular household.
the 100mb is more for business or for HD-video streaming.
I mean.
with 8mb you load a website as fast as a 100mb line.
so that 100mb is only usefull for certain options. But for internet browsing its just overkill 
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 00:04 Post subject: |
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What is the fastest out right now? i heard that there is coming 250mb.
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Jenni
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 00:06 Post subject: |
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Like you've never downloaded stuff Skid. I get 1.5mb a sec on my 10mb line. Takes about a hour for a dvd sized download. So with a 100mb line I'll get 15mb a sec. So it's not really just for business.
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 00:19 Post subject: |
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| Jenni wrote: | | Like you've never downloaded stuff Skid. I get 1.5mb a sec on my 10mb line. Takes about a hour for a dvd sized download. So with a 100mb line I'll get 15mb a sec. So it's not really just for business. |
yeah, with newsgroups i get max speed.
but what use is a 100mb line if a website only has 15mb uploadspeed. That's 85mb unused 
you get my point? |
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 00:24 Post subject: |
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| Razacka2 wrote: | | What is the fastest out right now? i heard that there is coming 250mb. |
1gb
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Jenni
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 00:29 Post subject: |
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Not really. I'm talking about download speed. That's the important thing for well downloading. What would I rather have. 1.5mb a sec download, or 15mb a second. Well just ask our Swedish friends on that one.
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 00:58 Post subject: |
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Jenni:
Not really. I'm talking about download speed. That's the important thing for well downloading. What would I rather have. 1.5mb a sec download, or 15mb a second. Well just ask our Swedish friends on that one.
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I'm using 10mb connection and i live in sweden. my highest download speed is like 1.5mb/s but i rarely get it. however the company i get internet from only give internet to thoose who live in my city cause it is a special offer that is cheap and good so i don't got any experience in swedish internet speed and connections.
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[sYn]
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 01:11 Post subject: |
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Even if you have 100Mb it doesn't mean the server your downloading from does... simple as that.
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 01:12 Post subject: |
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| [sYn] wrote: | | Even if you have 100Mb it doesn't mean the server your downloading from does... simple as that. |
just my point  |
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Jenni
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 01:30 Post subject: |
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Then you need to get decent servers. Simple as that. Ask Esel Gesi. He'll tell you. Giga news always (well 99% of the time) it does. It's always better to have a faster connection.
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 06:13 Post subject: |
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Giganews has a dedicated link to NTL, I'm on the 20mbit trial and getting 1.8/1.9 megs a sec (19mbits) right now. For normal servers they never get that close and with NTL's proxy issues web-browsing at prime time is at 1-2mbits.
The 50mbit trials is talk to boost stock IMHO and as a rival to BT's 21cn. I mean my 20mbit only works at 20mbit in the middle of the night, which is just when I download so s'all good.
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Macknu
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 09:20 Post subject: |
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Got 100mbit just becouse of the download and upload speed, when i surf the internet ofcourse it doesnt do much but when i download a new game on like 3gb in couple of minutes it does big difference.
And 100mbit is so cheap anyway so getting 10mb would cost almost as much.
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 15:14 Post subject: |
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Wonder if they'll increase the upload speeds (I'm kinda thinking probably not, last I heard there was limitations on the hardware they use to offer over 512k upload without severely hurting their systems). 20mbit sounds nice though for downstream, and if it's a free upgrade that's even better (last time I think they also dropped the prices of their services, such as when I was on 4mb for 50 quid if I remember right it turned into 10mbit for 35 quid per month).
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Horrordee
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Jenni
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 15:55 Post subject: |
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I hear you Horrordee. I remember spending £400 a month on phone bills when I was on 56k.
Which is why I don't mind spending on a decent connection.
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[sYn]
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Esel_Gesi
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 19:44 Post subject: |
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| Jenni wrote: | | Then you need to get decent servers. Simple as that. Ask Esel Gesi. He'll tell you. Giga news always (well 99% of the time) it does. It's always better to have a faster connection. |
lol why me? |
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SycoShaman
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 21:39 Post subject: |
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| Esel_Gesi wrote: | | Jenni wrote: | | Then you need to get decent servers. Simple as that. Ask Esel Gesi. He'll tell you. Giga news always (well 99% of the time) it does. It's always better to have a faster connection. |
lol why me? |
because your special? 
Giga news is the best imo opinion tho. Great retention, fast speeds, up to 10 concurrent connections.
great service and affordable. |
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 21:45 Post subject: |
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Damn the fastest they offer in my area is 768kbps. My max download speed is 110kb/s.
A DVD size Download in a hour? How about a day and a half for me. And don't even mention these new games coming out, they are huge.
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Jenni
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 22:32 Post subject: |
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| Esel_Gesi wrote: | | Jenni wrote: | | Then you need to get decent servers. Simple as that. Ask Esel Gesi. He'll tell you. Giga news always (well 99% of the time) it does. It's always better to have a faster connection. |
lol why me? |
Because for some reason I thought you were Swedish.
And I wanna kiss your face off. |
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Nov 2006 04:34 Post subject: |
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I am SO fucking depressed. My chum in the UK also got upgraded to 20meg for free.
I am still stuck at 1.5 meg here in Canada. Damned Bell Canada/Rogers monopoly!! We used to be world leaders too a few years ago :/
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Jenni
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Nov 2006 04:52 Post subject: |
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As for net connections. the Swedes lead the way and the asians.
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Esel_Gesi
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Nov 2006 07:13 Post subject: |
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| Jenni wrote: | | Esel_Gesi wrote: | | Jenni wrote: | | Then you need to get decent servers. Simple as that. Ask Esel Gesi. He'll tell you. Giga news always (well 99% of the time) it does. It's always better to have a faster connection. |
lol why me? |
Because for some reason I thought you were Swedish.
And I wanna kiss your face off. |
AMERICAN! Still want to kiss my face off? |
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Nov 2006 17:16 Post subject: |
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I would have upgraded to 10MB if the upload speed was better, I mean what is it? 384kbps? What a joke. 4000/384 will do for me just now.
Hopefully these new upgrades will mean much better upload speeds. The 20MB trials are reporting upload speeds of about 768kbps.. Still sucks, But at least its better.
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Jenni
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Nov 2006 22:07 Post subject: |
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Never been interested in uploading. Download ftw.
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Nov 2006 22:11 Post subject: |
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| Jenni wrote: | | Never been interested in uploading. Download ftw. |
You're lucky someone is, otherwise your precious newsgroups would be worthless.
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