Broadband at 3Mbps [Archive]

amanoffewwords

26th Apr 2004, 17:50

Telewest/Blueyonder have announced a 3Mbps broadband service but better still they are upgrading "normal" 512k users to 768k at NO EXTRA COST! Also, 1Mb becomes 1.5Mb, 2Mb becomes 3Mb, again FOC. ETA sometime end of May.

How's that for a deal/keeping your customers happy etc..?

Story here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3646825.stm)

Charles

Lost_luggage34

26th Apr 2004, 18:39

And yet they consider a 5 hour outage to me last week as 'normal maintenance'.

amanoffewwords

26th Apr 2004, 20:09

LL (aka Sparky!),

Better than one of my customers recently - called me to cancel an appointment as her BT broadband wasn't working.

"No problem said BT "an engineer is on his way and will be there on Saturday". This was Wednesday. To add insult to injury they'd known about that problem since the Monday previous. BT said the up to seven day turn-around for fixes was "normal".

timmcat

26th Apr 2004, 21:59

Got 2 mbps at work - stupidly fast when downloading files, but little real difference when web browsing - ebay almost the same as on dial up (although I dont suppose I really should be on ebay at work..:E )

Saab Dastard

26th Apr 2004, 22:09

AMOFW,

Thanks for that - I'm with Telewest :D :ok:

SD

stickyb

27th Apr 2004, 06:20

6Mb is now the common norm out here in HK. Goes impressively fast on speed tests, and on file downloading if you can find someone with a fast enough server!

They are also offering TV over broadband now - quite a lot of channels and choice.

amanoffewwords

27th Apr 2004, 08:15

6Mbps? Impressive, but not as impressive as Japan's 26Mbps (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=109551&highlight=japan+broadband) ! (and I won't mention that Korea was talking about building a 54Mbps system!).

But then again, like you say stickyb, it's all relative to the server on the other side...

Charles

Lost_luggage34

1st May 2004, 22:07

Hi Charles,
Read the link to the Beeb story with great interest.

Just curious - how did you find out about it ?

Personally, no knowledge at Telewest when one calls their Customer Service. Puzzling to me.

I doubt if their infrastructure would be able to support it. They are very cagey about contention ratios when you ask them.

No doubt there will some small print etc. !

Cheers

LL34

PS. I owe u an Email re. FTP etc

amanoffewwords

1st May 2004, 22:46

Hi LL34,

it's on their website (http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyonder/getContent.jspx?page=bbs_faster) too. But I first about from the beep - technology page of their news site.

Cheers
Charles

nb.
...Can't be worse than a certain Frame Relay implementation that I have vague memories of going pear-shaped a few moons ago at a certain large company you were aquainted with....