Recieved a letter from BT today....

As of the 17th Feb, they are upgrading my line from 1Meg to 2Meg - Free of charge!

Unfortunately the usage limit stays at 15Gb - oh well..

Anyone else got a letter?


Graham

 

They had to to stay ahead of NTL and others I guess NTL are just about to launch their 3mb connection

 

Wake me up when they roll out ADSL2 DSLAMS

 

yup got the same letter ..... what a crock of **** 15GB with a 2meg line

but you can pay for more ...... robbing bastids. Just lave me as I am Grrrrr

rant over

 

Major ntl budget cutbacks threatens service for customers

# Wednesday, February 2, 2005 by Mick Ramsden
Cable Forum has received information tonight from an ntl insider and other reliable sources that major budget cutbacks have been planned. Urgent conference calls have taken place earlier today and the following cutbacks in service have now been planned..

* Only Network Masters/Outages affecting more than 30 telco subs are to be attended out of hours.

* Power Outages will be attended until 11pm, then cab will have to run on batteries until 8am.

* No CATV/BB Outages to be attended out-of-hours.

* No Service Refferals to be attended out-of-hours.

* No Preventative Maintenance, only fire-fighting.

* No “Network” Upgrades.

* No Overtime.

These cuts in service have been said to ‘enhance the balance sheet’. These cutbacks are believed to cause a major impact on service levels for all customers. An internal source has summed it up by stating:-

“Thanks for choosing ntl, best hope your BB / telephone doesn’t break at 4:01PM on a Friday… Good Luck”

 

yep,i got the letter,and its reduced to £24.99 as well

but 15gb is good if you don't download much,i think

 

Sounds like NTL could be going the same way as Telewest and C&W ie. down...

 

Yeah, 15Gb is more than enough if you're only browsing/sending e-mail etc, but
the hardcore downloaders among us will use that in a matter of days!

And whats the point of a 2Mb connection, unless you make the most of it?

 

can't you just **** with a mag instead?

 

^^^^ What he said and double

 

what,double ****?

 

Like skiing ? Thats just sick

 

that cant be right can it????

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4247133.stm

 

AOL platinum 2 is meant to be £34.99 for 2mb unlimited, but once you have signed up, you can omit the dial up freebie and get the 2mb unlimited for £29


I've had it for a while as a trial user and got this e-mail - also 1mb - will be 2mb in july for free (unlimited.)

 

On my Email from BT, it mentions the monthy useage will stick to 30GB?

Peter

 

Yup i believe that is true, but the 2mb will be coming in a bit at a time, not all in one go, and im unsure of which area's will get it first, though as per any broadband carrier, the 2mb is the MAXIMUM that you will be able to get, this will still vary with the ammount of people using it to what is available to you.

Tony

PS, i think its the broadband basic thats the 15gb limit.

 

AOL Platinum member here and got a email few days ago about being upgraded to 2MB unlimited could be upto 6 months but hopefully sooner

 

I got an email as well.

It states only if your line can support it - I think they mean your exchange??

 

same here - I thought the 15Gb limit was for 512kbps connections... have these been upgraded to 2Mb as well?

 

Goto France - Wandadoo / FT will give you a 15Mbs line with no download limit for 30 Euros a month.

ADSL 2 is starting to be rolled out - it's all part of the BT masterplan There are already some services starting to use it. I've not heard of home Internet broadband package as yet though

 

I think I may have just been upgraded. I lost connection and had to reboot and its running a lot faster than it used to.

 

The BT masterplan... you mean there is one?

TBH at this stage I'm more concerned with the rather crap upload speeds we have to suffer. Why can I get 2Mb down and only 256k up? Methinks someone is applying pressure to prevent increased uploads speeds in order to try and reduce the usefulness of P2P (not that it's working).

I want my SDSL dammit and at a reasonable price!

 

I think that's unlikely - the upgrades aren't due to start until the 17th!

BT will be sending out letters giving exact dates for each household....

 

And you're on the same exchange as me (Runcorn East) and mine hasn't been done yet so I very much doubt yours has either!!

 

I work for C&W, we aren't going down.


We already are


Seriously though, some interesting things happening, should pick up over the coming few years......

 

I'm sure it will pick up - my comments were only meant in jest!

As it happens, some of our ISDN lines at work are managed by C&W.
It just seems that you don't hear much from them anymore, though I'm sure they're just concentrating more on the business customers these days.

 

If you got a letter, run away - I was in one of the pilot areas. Not sure how the technology works, but you would get 5 minutes of downloads at 1Mb/sec followed by 20 hours of your router telling you 'unable to negotiate ADSL connection' You can download loads and loads of stuff at a meg a second, but plan ahead

 

Sorry - i tell a lie - 240k a second, so something around 4-5 meg link?

(still fookin **** hot though.... when it is working)

 

Nah, that's a 2Mbps link maxed out.