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Not in my area yet. No surprises there then. You would need the traffic to warrant this though. Live TV streaming is in its infancy and as most providers are 12x slower, the data streams for TV over broadband are not available yet. Sounds great though.

wooohooooooooo

should be in my area for december

24meg?! :eek: Last time wanadoo told me I could go up to 2meg it turned out they knew didly squat and I'm still stuck on 1meg....

Does me though.

I don't believe it. I'm stuck in the dark ages of 512k.

24 meg down a copper line !!!!

in the words of Victor

''I doooonnn't believe it !''

They must have a contention ratio of 1:500 or something

They must have a contention ratio of 1:500 or something

I was understanding everything up until this point :confused:

I was understanding everything up until this point :confused:

Say the maximum transfer of the main connection to the ISP from their telephone exchange is 100mbps, they then hang 500 users of that connection.

What that means in theory is if 4 users were using their maximum download of 24mbps there wont be a problem, but the more that use it after that the slower it gets for everyone else. So if 40 users try and download at their maximum rate, they will download at only 2.4mbps. still fast but nowhere near the quoted speed.

thank you kind sir, it all makes sense now.......

Contention ratios are a nice cop-out for some companies that offer very fast connections, personnally In very happy with my 1meg download 'cos no other bugger is using it

I use NTL Broadband. Due to awful problems with it a couple of years ago, everyone in my area is was ****ed off with NTL that they had it taken out. I kept it and now blissfully enjoy 2mB broadband with little or no bottlenecks.

I use NTL Broadband. Due to awful problems with it a couple of years ago, everyone in my area is was ****ed off with NTL that they had it taken out. I kept it and now blissfully enjoy 2mB broadband with little or no bottlenecks.

ntl's tv signal is well over 100meg to every house and the way cable works everyone who has cable gets the full signal, the box/card then decides what you can view, some important info for you is that ntl currently have capped broadband but have no reporting to show who goes over the limit

This is currently being worked on and i believe is the reason only the customers currently paying for three meg are being upgraded to ten meg first before the end of the year and then once ntl have the reporting in place to find out who is over using capped bb they will upgrade everybody.

i'll wait a bit i think im happy with pipex plus i get points which i can use towards usefull things

ntl's tv signal is well over 100meg to every house and the way cable works everyone who has cable gets the full signal' date=' the box/card then decides what you can view, some important info for you is that ntl currently have capped broadband but have no reporting to show who goes over the limit

This is currently being worked on and i believe is the reason only the customers currently paying for three meg are being upgraded to ten meg first before the end of the year and then once ntl have the reporting in place to find out who is over using capped bb they will upgrade everybody.[/quote']

Good point on the 100Meg to each house. I suppose it has to carry digital tv etc. In the past when downloading films etc I came close to the daily 1Gb limit but I wasn't capped then. I am capped now but don't really download enough to hit the daily limit. It's a good thing because i'm now on 2Gb which means if I started downloading films etc again like I used to, I could be hitting the cap after a few hours.