Blueyonder - EVEN FASTER

[size13]

You may remember a while back I posted about Blueyonder's 50% faster upgrade...

Well they're at it again - now 33% faster at no extra cost from January(ish)

www.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyonder/getContent.jspx?page=bbs_evenfaster

>>> Edited by size13 on Thursday 25th November 12:23

[s2gonzo]

NTL are doing the same in Feb next year. 750kb connection will jump to 2mb for no extra cost.

I think the 1.5mb jumps to 3mb and the 512kb jumps to 1mb.

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Except that its only download speed, not upload which is STILL 256kbps Oh, and 50:1 contention.

Still not bad though.

[pdV6]

page3 said:

50:1 contention.

...potentially!

I like the fact that most of my neighbours probably don't even know what cable TV is, let alone have it and far less use it for BB internet!

[_dobbo_]

I'm not sure whether the contention is between you and your neighbours or at the ISP - does anyone know which one? OR both?

[squirrelz]

page3 said:

Except that its only download speed, not upload which is STILL 256kbps Oh, and 50:1 contention. Still not bad though.

Well, thats not entirely accurate.

What was the blueyonder 512k service, is currently the 768k service and will be the 1M service, only has a 128k upload speed.

However, contention ratios are more relevent to ADSL; cable broadband doesn't work in the same way. There is still contention, but it doesn't fall into these 20:1 and 50:1 ratios that ADSL has.