All ntl broadband customers will be upgraded to 10 meg starting with everyone on the current 3 meg service, 3 meg custs will be upgraded before the end of the year

Just thought you might like to know

And telewest 2 and 4 meg customers also get a 10mb upgrade with no download caps unlike NTL

It's alright for you folks who have a cable connection. Our streets are unsullied by little metal trapdoors, and I'm too far from the exchange to get any better that 512K broadband!

No fair!

Phil

lucky buggers

10mb!!!

I'm gonna suck the net dry...

Oh , and telewest say they expect to be able to offer 50mb by 2007

go telewest

Blimming eck. I'm on 512k purely because I'm on Wanadoo and paying

It's just a race. Aren't NTL and telewest cost to a merger anyway seen as they rarey compete?

It's just a race. Aren't NTL and telewest cost to a merger anyway seen as they rarey compete?

I thought the merger had already gone through

Should be finalised later on this year And yes, it is confirmed to be happening..

Anyone got a link?

Can't find anything on NTL's homepage.

Cheers

Lee

You mean on the 10MBit - I doubt they'll announce anything for a while on the main site, Telewest will have it rolled out for a month or so before NTL follows, based on bitter experience :(

I'm more than happy with Plusnet - just been upgraded to 2mb FOC.

as requested ntl's official stance

Get set for high-speed thrills

ntl today announced our product strategy for the next generation of cable broadband services.

Author: ****** 8/Aug/2005

The new approach is designed to put ntl into a market-leading position on all key elements of the customer purchase decision for broadband: price, speed and usage.

The new services, which will join the line up by the end of 2006, will offer two options:

10Mb speed as standard, with usage allowances to match individual requirements

Choice of broadband speeds, with unlimited usage allowance

10Mb is set to be the quickest consumer broadband service in the UK. The initial group of ntl customers to enter the realms of F1 will be the current 3Mb Broadband customers. We expect to migrate these customers to 10Mb by the end of this year. Their monthly usage allowance will increase from 30GB per month to 75GB per month.

F1 Surfing

With 10Mb, surfing becomes a more enjoyable experience, particularly if you have more than one PC at home. For instance, downloading a music track will take just 3 seconds (vs 30 seconds @ 1Mb) or a movie preview in 30 seconds or a 30-minute video in just 3 minutes (normally 30mins).

Innovative

usage allowances to match individual requirements

I wouldn't like the sound of that!!

I'm more than happy with Plusnet - just been upgraded to 2mb FOC.

Err Mike,

All ntl broadband customers will be upgraded to 10 meg starting with everyone on the current 3 meg service, 3 meg custs will be upgraded before the end of the year

and

The new services' date=' which will join the line up by the end of 2006, will offer two options:

10Mb speed as standard, with usage allowances to match individual requirements[/quote']

Err, are we talking about the same year? AFAIK, we're still in 2005

this year for 3meggers next year for the rest

so from the end of 2006 10 meg will be standard across the network

In all honesty the problems I've had with NTL (other than customer services, which has been swinging between terrible (years back), excellent (after massive investment) and reasonable (now, most of the time, after cutbacks on staff (again)) have been related to:

* proxy servers not working

* new customer gets installed on the 'same box' and getting put on a different port so I loose all signal (has happened 5 times since I've been a customer).

* Endless joy with direct debits this year - cancellations, not taking out the money when DD is active, that kinda joy. Never been overbilled though

That said, proxy server problems are very rare nowadays where I live. Two years ago it was absolutely useless and I was on the phone to NTL Tech at least a day a week

10 Mbit uncapped would be crazy - that's the US model in some areas and it just does not work as the speed drops to less than dialup at peak. I much rather have a sustained 3Mbit connection.

Also I agree with the upload speed thing. 512k up/down would be perfect, I much prefer that over 256k up, 10M down - after all, I've got two further ADSL lines if I want more download speed, with a load-balancing router :D

Well, I've been hit.

My hard drive fills up too quickly now :(

I'm now on 4mb until my area gets upgraded to 10.

Wish they would hurry up!

I've just received an Xmas card from NTL announcing that as a premium cusomer I will be amongst the first to be upgraded to 10Mb Broadband this month. Download will be up to 10Mb and upload speeds will be 512K. Price will go down from £37.99 to £34.99 in early 2006. Usage (I wasn't aware there is a limit) will more than double from 30GB to 75Gb. Enhanced security with ntlNetguard for constant PC protection and automatic virus updates every 3 hours - supposedly worth over £40 - is available for download free now from ntlworld.com/netguard. Broadband Plus - an entertainment package worth £30 a month - is also free. Must register for that now.

The biggest problem with NTL's 10mb offering is most early cablemodems including ours are not capable of that speed. Our modem only has a 10mb ethernet port, 10mb would max that out resulting in a local network overload.

I wouldnt put NetGuard on my machine personally, but then I have a non-standard network with 3 broadband connections, twin load balanced and VPN Server

BTW I'm paying 29.99 a month on a one-year discount deal after I cancelled my TV & phone package with NTL a little while back.

Either way - good price for sure

Little follow-up on mannyo's post - very true, and now imagine the USB/ethernet converters, connected to a W9x box. I dont fancy my chances of hitting anywhere near 10Mbit anyway.

Also most cheap routers will hit limits at those kinda speeds, not between the LAN ports (usually are a touch faster for that), but the CPUs those things use aren't really all that fast.