I received a letter from NTL in August telling me my box would be exchanged in August. It wasn't, and a recent check of my postcode on NTL's website turned up the information that the box change will be in October. Which do I believe - August, October, or just about any other month (September excepted)? :(

And the latest state of play for my upgrade from 1Mb to 1.5Mb is:

When is the speed upgrade happening in my area?

Congratulations your service has been upgraded. PE196QP was upgraded in August. We are upgrading 1Mb Set top box customers to 1.5Mb on the 4th November 2004. From this time the 1Mb Broadband service will cease to exist.

In order to maintain quality of service, if you have not had your Set top box exchanged your Broadband speed will be decreased to 750K at

There i was thinking how fast my 300k was and.............

http://www.chetnet.co.uk/portal/forum/showthread.php?threadid=3922

3 Mb sounds excellent but how about the 40GB monthly limit? That latter figure means absolutely nothing to me.

Denis,

40 GB download limit per month.

This usually includes e-mail, web browsing, downloads etc etc...

Sounds good...3Mb here we come......wonder what the upload will be though.

The upload is still going to be 256k :(

Also, I hope they don't enforce that 40GB/month limit. I'm already doing that with my 1.5Mbps connection.....

What the hell are you guys downloading? And what do you do with it all? You buy a new hard drive every month, too? :confused:

This is a bit of an **** because i spoke to an NTL salesman and he said theres no cap. I think ill ditch NTHELL then because i would rather 300kbs and no cap.

ntl have a 2GB cap per day IIRC.

May just have to take custom elsewhere from NTL, which i think most ppl would do. Tesco is 2 quid more, ok you dont get 1mbs but you do get no cap, and if youre downloading, youre more than likely at work and doesnt really affect you

What the hell are you guys downloading? And what do you do with it all? You buy a new hard drive every month, too? :confused:

Well a DVD image is 5gb , and CD images of TV shows are .8gb each.

It's quite possible to go over 40gb in a month.

I'm waiting to see if Teleworst increase their speeds to match NTL , and hoping they don't decide to add a download limit

Is there any way of self-measuring monthly download and does online gaming (eg my son plays Call of Duty online) involve significant downloading?

Well a DVD image is 5gb ' date=' and CD images of TV shows are .8gb each.

It's quite possible to go over 40gb in a month.

I'm waiting to see if Teleworst increase their speeds to match NTL , and hoping they don't decide to add a download limit[/quote']

So you guys are downloading, burning and watching an average of 8 films a month - where you get the time, or the motivation, beats me...

Is there any way of self-measuring monthly download and does online gaming (eg my son plays Call of Duty online) involve significant downloading?

Yes gaming will be quite a hefty chunk of bandwidth. "Downloading" doesn't just mean data that's saved as files, it means any data transferred over the link. I would guess a lot of games come close to saturating the upload side of the link too, which is invariably smaller.

You can get a bit of software that sits on your PC and logs all the bandwidth used.

I'll have a nose and see what I can find if nobody else comes up with a specific recomendation.

Gaming won't saturate a 512k connection , but if it is used a lot then it will soon add up.

As for the amount I download , I download about 5 or 6 episodes of US tv shows each week at about half a GB each , so 4gb per week. Add a couple of DVD images a month to that plus all the normal surfing the net and it soon adds up

Re: CAPPING.

Not sure how well your actual usage can be monitored... so not sure there is actually an enforced cap. only one way to find out though.

NTL dont enforce the cap, I should know because I exceed it daily, on monday I downloaded more than 6GB of linux distro files. When you go over you get no warnings and your connection carries on as before. However with most of the BT ADSL providers as soon as you hit the cap on the service you subscribe to your service will become very limited.

NTL dont enforce the cap, I should know because I exceed it daily, on monday I downloaded more than 6GB of linux distro files. When you go over you get no warnings and your connection carries on as before.

I'd heard the same - basically it's just there so that if you do start "abusing" the system they can remove you under "fair usage" conditions.

You'll probably find the cap is there, but being NTL it doesn't work...

Rob.

As Manny says, NTL don't enforce the cap. I would have been informed very quickly if they did

I just hope they don't start "enforcing" it with the upgrades due early next year.

Having said that, looking at other forums, it sounds as if the cap limits and cap itself is still speculative - there hasn't been any official ntl announcement on that subject (yet)

They don't enforce the daily limit for people who occasionally go over it , but if you started downloading 10gb a day , every day , then you would soon find yourself looking for a new ISP

I wonder if you dont pay the

There's another article here suggesting even more increases are on the way...

There's another article here[/url'] suggesting even more increases are on the way...

And another relating to their customer disservice:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/27/ntl_recorded_message/

What is The Register, anyway? Who funds it? Are its articles reliable?