Graz

Must be in response to NTLs upgrades

750k -> 1Mb
1.5Mb -> 2Mb
3Mb -> 4Mb (and 384k upload)

http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyond...bbs_evenfaster

DazV

DSL broadband is getting better too:

It has been a while coming, but it is here now, and is to be available on 230 exchanges around the UK. What is it? Well 8Mbps ADSL, with a 400kbps upstream for a price of just £39.99 a month. More details on their website at www.ukonline.net/8000.

ozzy

The only problem I have with ADSL suppliers is the contention ratios and download restrictions.

I big pat on the back for Blueyonders commitment to unlimited use

mynickers

That looks like an amazing deal to me...

And are cable ratios better than 33:1 my adsl is 50:1, I had blueyonder before this and can't notice any difference, in fact BY was down much more often than this and I lost connection a lot more than adsl.

In fact I was paying £39 for 1mb line when it came out, so i'd happily part with that for 8mb/400k.

ozzy

I know the BY services varies across the country. I've had it for the best part of 3 years now and it's been down twice in that time. I've never known it to slow down during and so-called busy periods.

Do you have a cap on your downloads??

Stefan

MJW

The 8MB/sec UKOnline service is capped to 4Gb a day though and you have to live within spitting distance of a phone exchange to get it.

ozzy

4GB/day of **** is enough for any man

STi wanna Subaru

iTrader: (1)

also they cut your connection after 2 hours of been on-line.

mannyo

NTL are upgrading again in the new year,

MJW

500k of **** is usually enough for most people though

ozzy

Not sure if I was an NTL customer that I'd be happy paying £25 for the upgrade where new business gets it for nothing

Daz34

Another happy blueyonder customer

Barron

good post, i never knew that, cheers

Steve Perriam

another happy BY customer.

started with 1mb.....1.5mb and now to be 2mb

double wot i initially decided to pay for and all in less than a year

Lum

I'm mostly happy with BlueYonder. They were a bit flaky a year ago but great now. About time that they increased the upload speed though, I may even move to the 3/4meg service as a result.

8meg ADSL looks tempting though, but the whole setup is annoying as first I have to pay BT to activate the BT line to my flat (which proved difficult as there is no phone number allocated to it so they can't find it) then after doing so I can get them to test it and even if it fales I'm stuck with 3 months line rental and an activation fee.

Can the unbundled stuff do anything better on this front, also how do I find out which exchange I would be on?

MrShades

Ditto - another v. satisfied BY customer. Couldn't live (or work!) without it.

And the more speed increases they give us, the better........ as Steve said, 1 to 1.5 to 2 Mb - and all in the space of about a year. Great stuff.

Continuing not to impose any DL restriction is also great - I'd struggle if they did implement a limit. However, an increase in the upstream would help - as it's STILL only 256K (I notice that they've kindly upped the new 4Mb upstream to 384K - How generous!)

Shades

Proby521

iTrader: (1)

Another happy BY customer here! Speed increase again is gret news. Used their services for 3+ years and rarely get any trouble. If the network goes down its always up and running within 24 hours.

Tim-Grove

Shouldn't you be at work????

farmer1

Personnaly I'd rather they dropped the price, then upgrade the speed, but that aint ever gonna happen.

Have to say though another happy BY customer here.

ozzy

Yeah, the price could look at being adjusted given the rate ADSL has caught up.

The two reasons they can get away with it (sorry, look more competitive) is the fact that the don't cap your daily downloads and won't disconnect you (intentionaly) after a certain period of time online.

Stefan

ozzy

oh, and better uploads speeds. half the download speed would be a good start.

SiDHEaD

up the upspeed really pisses me off when i'm updating a whole batch of product images on a website!

DazV

just swapped to 750k BY (£25) from 512k DSL (£23)

looks a good deal now BY are upping 750k to 1000k in December for same price

wideboyuk

Only had it for 6 months, started at 512kb so now its double the speed for the same price

DazV

will BY work with my existing Linksys WAG54G wireless router / modem ?

Having seens a friends, standard installation - it includes:

- a wall socket with cable that terminates with a bespoke connector INTO the BY modem
- a LAN cable that goes from BY modem into PC

so where does the Linksys router fit into the equation ?

MrShades

DazV - Unfortunately, to use the Linksys router in the same way it needs to have an Ethernet WAN port. Yours is designed for ADSL and includes an ADSL modem rather than a WAN port. So, you can't use it as a cable firewall / access point. It'd still work fine as a switch, but you wouldn't be able to use the firewall features of it, as it would have nothing connected to the 'WAN' (ADSL modem) port.

What you need, is a different Linksys router - the WRT54G. Around 50 quid. Does exactly the same thing as your WAG54G, but has an Ethernet WAN port (that the cable modem ethernet cable will plug directly in to) instead of an ADSL modem.

So - get the WAG54G on Ebay, and buy a WRT54G...

Shades

farmer1

Just read on the media guardian that

"French consumers are able to buy broadband at 15Mb speed for about £20 a month"

http://media.guardian.co.uk/city/sto...354282,00.html

Another case of rip off Britain?

jjones

adsl in 256 exchangesis going to be 8mb for £39.95 a month starting april 05.

DazV

cheers shades - think my mate has one he doesn't use

Shark Man

Yay faster net access for me :luxhello

Although currently on 750, which was originally upgraded from 500 -TBH that didn't make much difference. Normally I have problems with slow server or DNS response. DL's are slightly quicker

Would I be better off using an alternate DNS server? if so list the IP's please

As for BY's service I can't knock 'em now. When we had it first installed they made a right pigs ear of it, but these days they seem to be as good or better than everyone else